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- Pan Seared Chicken Braised with Fennel & Beet Salad with Fennel Fronds
Fennel is amazing. I had eaten it, but never cooked with it until today. What intrigues me the most, anise flavor aside, is how many ways it can be prepared. The whole plant can be put to use: the root can be roasted or eaten raw, fronds for salads or as garnish, and the seeds [...]
- Roasted Natural Chicken with Potatoes, Carrots, Garlic and Oregano
This is the first thing I made when I moved out of my parents’ home. I usually visit weekly and make something while home. I already made breakfast, so here’s what I made yesterday for lunch.
Prep time: 20 minutes
Total baking time: 1 hour 45 minutes
The lineup:
- The Perfect Scrambled Eggs
Eggs are quite possibly the world’s most intriguing and universal food. They are symbolic, nourishing, versatile, and complex. Almost everyone can cook them some way or another - but not many can do so well and with consistency. Let’s try to change that.
- The Well-Stocked Pantry
It’s not a pantry without a bunch of key items. I’ve listed mine in rough order of importance, the most used and versatile near the top. Mind you, this isn’t the same for everyone, but I think its a pretty good base (a bit sprawling, even). Also, this is stuff that generally doesn’t need refrigeration. [...]
- Tagliatelle with Tomatoes, Scallions, Herbs, Lemon, and Marsala
Its not hard to make pasta. Real, fresh, homemade pasta. All it takes is five simple ingredients and some muscle. This should take about 40-50 minutes total, for the whole dish. It takes a bit of time to get the gluten going, so lets cut the palaver and get to it.
For the pasta, you will [...]
- Mise en Place
Nobody wants to stand around cooking for hours. The flood of “quick-meal” cookbooks is a response to the ever increasing pace of business-driven society. Less time, better output. One way to eat well and save time is to minimize both preparation and cooking. Using raw, whole foods is a good solution, and a rather [...]
- Getting on the Grid, in a Major way
Over the past year I have dedicated a lot of time to making sure that the important things in my life are safe and organized, within reason. I’ve been using the book Getting Things Done as a guide, supplemented with other online recommendations.
Here’s a brief and somewhat complete description of my paper system. Important documents [...]
