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  • Unexpectedly pleased with tonight’s dinner, which I call Balti Chicken with Noodles.

    → 10:10 PM, Jan 23   •  AllTheBestRecipes
  • We stopped in at Smith’s Bagelry today.

    Bought fresh simit (pictured), as well as a slice of San Sebastián style gluten free cheesecake. A bit sweet for me, but light & fluffy.

    → 9:57 PM, Jan 16   •  AllTheBestRecipes
  • I had sourdough bread success today. I’ll take it.

    → 9:56 PM, Jan 6   •  AllTheBestRecipes, cooking
  • I got sent this Azerbaijani Country Life Vlog video blog by @florence_ann and ended up watching the entire 45 minute video.

    Added to @atbrecipes.

    → 10:02 AM, Nov 8   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Twitter
  • I made a chocolate cake to use up sourdough starter discard.

    It’s not a pretty cake, and making an entire sheet cake to use up a little sourdough is perhaps overkill, but I’m happy with how it turned out.

    → 7:36 PM, Nov 1   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Twitter
  • When we went for brunch at Forage yesterday, I also bought some of their sourdough starter. Looking forward to waking it up!

    → 8:06 AM, Oct 18   •  AllTheBestRecipes, mastodon
  • The Sifter in Atlas Obscura

    The Sifter thesifter.org

    a multilingual database, currently 130,000-items strong, of the ingredients, techniques, authors, and section titles included in more than 5,000 European and U.S. cookbooks.

    – A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks Is Now Online, and You Can Help Improve It, Atlas Obscura

    The data on this site is super interesting. Whatever is running the site is not great. It’s some sort of out of the box Microsoft thing including default loading animations.

    But! It aims to be a sort of Wikipedia. I’ve signed up to be a contributor and I hope that this can be built on and be licensed for re-use.

    I did a search for “Vancouver” and found only one entry, so my used cookbook collection may be able to add a handful more. It does say it only wants pre-1940 cookbooks, but it’s unclear why.

    It provides a bird’s-eye view of long-term trends in European and American cuisines, from shifting trade routes and dining habits to culinary fads. Search “cupcakes,” for example, and you’ll find the term may have first popped up in Mrs. Putnam’s Receipt Book And Young Housekeeper’s Assistant, a guide for ladies running middle-class households in the 1850s.

    Yes! Super interesting to me. Looking forward to see how this evolves.

    (From the Gastro Obscura section of A.O.)

    → 6:30 PM, Oct 13   •  AllTheBestRecipes, cooking, Blog
  • Pulled out some old achiote and made a turkey thigh stew plus did a trial run of savoury waffles I’m going to serve tomorrow.

    → 9:09 PM, Oct 11   •  AllTheBestRecipes, mastodon
  • Had these “screw buns” from Dinesty Dumpling House last night, which came with sweetened condensed milk for dipping. So pretty, so tasty!

    → 11:18 AM, Oct 11   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Twitter
  • Picnic in the park yesterday. Smashed cucumber & pasta salad recipes on @ATBRecipes.

    → 9:05 AM, Sep 6   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Twitter
  • Hello #pickling friends! A quick stovetop pickle with golden beets.

    → 8:22 PM, Sep 2   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Twitter, pickling
  • Made my first salt-baked salmon tonight. Full step-by-step photos on @ATBRecipes. Definitely want to try more salt-baked things ;)

    → 7:57 PM, Aug 22   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Twitter
  • Made it into Columbus Meats for the first time in a long time. Their prepared roasts and other items are SO GOOD — although I didn’t buy any this time.

    → 11:12 PM, Aug 19   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Columbus Meats
  • Success with the lactic fermented tomato 🍅 #pickling experiment! Less garlic next time.

    → 8:32 PM, Aug 15   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Twitter, pickling
  • Went for an afternoon bike ride and ended up at Banana Grove Market on 22nd for the first time.

    A mashup of an Italian deli and an Asian grocery in a really excellent way.

    → 9:05 PM, Aug 9   •  AllTheBestRecipes
  • Ok shiny happy #pickling people, here’s some fermented rhubarb getting started, with orange peels and cardamom.

    → 9:31 AM, Aug 8   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Twitter, pickling
  • What’s that vague unease about Fava beans? Oh yeah, you need to take them out of their pods and shell them before cooking.

    → 5:40 PM, Jul 23   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Fava beans
  • Eggplant and okra in a peanut coconut sauce. I felt good about the flavour balance in this.

    Did I really need to cook two dishes tonight and make the house hot??? 👨‍🍳

    → 8:42 PM, Jul 21   •  AllTheBestRecipes, eggplant
  • A variation on my last brown butter and fresh peas pasta. No scapes, 3 minced bacon slices, minced onion & lemon juice & zest, served over macaroni.

    → 8:21 PM, Jul 21   •  AllTheBestRecipes, pasta
  • Step two of kimuchi and pickled cabbage. The kimuchi will sour for 3 days in a corner, the cabbage goes to the back of the fridge for 3 weeks.

    → 9:28 AM, Jul 19   •  AllTheBestRecipes
  • Turning a giant head of green cabbage into Kimuchi and some pickled cabbage & jalapeños, from The Joy of Pickling

    → 1:36 PM, Jul 18   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Twitter
  • Pineapple 🍍 Mango 🥭 #tepache with a knob of ginger. Back to basics!

    → 2:44 PM, Jul 15   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Twitter, tepache
  • Lovely pale pink rhubarb lime ginger tepache. As I suspected, the pith from the limes is a bit bitter. Doesn’t feel like it will ferment? We’ll see in 3 days.

    → 12:48 PM, Jul 11   •  AllTheBestRecipes, tepache
  • Next batch of #tepache, first time without pineapple: rhubarb, ginger, lime.

    → 11:24 AM, Jul 8   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Twitter, tepache
  • Wise Monkeys | Trinidad Garlic Pork

    Wise Monkeys | Trinidad Garlic Pork.

    I can’t wait to try this some time.

    Update July 5, 2020: link replaced with Internet Archive, and then I gave it a more permanent home on AllTheBest.Recipes.

    → 9:53 AM, Feb 6   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Food, pork, recipe, image, garlic, trinidad, Wise Monkeys, Blog
  • Shrubs

    Cocktail 101: How to Make Shrub Syrups | Serious Eats: Drinks.

    Hanging out with Lee & Sachi in Seattle, we dove into the world of shrubs:

    In any case, the sugar, acid, and optional alcohol preserve the fruit juice, and in fact that was one original purpose of the shrub. Prior to the invention of refrigeration, a shrub syrup was a means of preserving fruit long past its picking. Shrubs were popular in Colonial America, mixed with cool water to provide a pick-me-up on hot summer days.

     

    A proper shrub has a flavor that’s both tart and sweet, so it stimulates the appetite while quenching thirst.

    I ordered one at The Walrus and the Carpenter, a pretty fantastic oyster bar in Ballard where we had dinner.

    This got me thinking about drinking vinegars, which is somewhat a name for the syrup + vinegar that you make shrubs from. We had some in Vancouver  at The Union which was fantastic.

    So, Lee and I concocted a shrub syrup from 2 oranges simmered in simple syrup and then added some sherry vinegar.

    Lee made up a drink with Averna in it and some soda. It was pretty delicious, especially when we kept amping up the amount of sherry vinegar.

    Yep, I’m a fan. And to think, it’s supposedly a summer drink.

    Update July 5, 2020: I’ve gone on to make many more shrubs / drinking vinegars. Browse the AllTheBest.Recipes shrub tag »

    → 11:04 PM, Dec 18   •  AllTheBestRecipes, Food, Lee Lefever, Seattle, Link, Averna, Ballard, cocktails, drinking vinegar, drinks, shrub, The Union, The Walrus and the Carpenter, Blog
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