In my Gmail drafts folder, I’ve racked up a pretty hefty list of recipes that I stumble upon that I want to try. Here’s a few highlights from my current list. And FYI, because the last couple of posts were pretty non-ethnic, these recipes have an international focus.
Bamya, oven-baked okra and beef stew: This is [...]
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March 10, 2010
Recipes I Want To Try Before I Forget About Them. Also: Did You Know Florence Fabricant Is A Woman?
March 10, 2010
Homemade Ranch Dressing: Please Do Not Eat The Stuff In The Bottle Anymore, Because That’s Not Food
I know this is supposed to be an ethnic food blog, but I think I’d be doing you guys a disservice by not telling you how to make your own ranch dressing/dip/whatever you want to call it:
Here it is, quickly. Stir all of this stuff together:
3/4 c sour cream
1/4 c mayonnaise
1 tbs chopped cilantro
1 tbs [...]
March 10, 2010
There’s More To Lunch Than Sandwiches: Five Weekday Salads That Will Rock Your Cubicle
First of all, I want to explain my impossibly long headlines. As a copywriter, I spend every day focusing on how to phrase things cleverly in proper English without repeating words or using unnecessary articles. So, my blog is a place where I can relax about that stuff and just write for the sake of [...]
February 24, 2010
I’m Proud To Announce The Debut Issue Of The Runcible Spoon, A DC-Based Food Zine. Download A PDF!
In case you didn’t know, I started a DC-based food zine, The Runcible Spoon. Instead of starting another blog, I thought — why not bring food back to the streets? Why not use an old medium — a zine (the 90s version of the blog) — to promote local blogs and foodies instead of Twitter [...]
February 22, 2010
Try Cooking A Korean Dish That’s Not Bulgoki: Soondubu Jjigae
My aunt came to visit me a few weekends ago and presented me with a giant tub of gochujang, Korean hot pepper paste. I was excited because once you have this stuff, your possibilities in Korean cuisine are endless.
The first thing that I wanted to try cooking with my precious gochujang was soondubu jjigae, a [...]
January 28, 2010
Taylor Deli 5th and K St. NW Location’s PHONE NUMBER
If you love Taylor Deli as much as I do when it comes to sandwiches, then you’ll understand my frustration when I say, “PUT YOUR NEW NUMBER ON YOUR EFFING WEB SITE ALREADY!”
HERE IT IS: (202) 289-8001
Now you can make your deliveries from the 5th and K location without having to call the H St. [...]
January 27, 2010
If You Want Your Office To Do Something, Reward Them With Omelets
Our office has this problem of leaving dirty dishes and mugs in the sink, and so as an incentive to put a stop to it, our company said they’d make us omelets if we could leave the sink dish-free for the remainder of 2009.
Needless to say, we won the prize (although, today I found that [...]
