“Roux” is a French word, meaning ginger, as in red-haired. Interestingly, the recipe for roux calls for exactly zero hairs. Keep this in mind as Continue Reading
Recipes
Skirt Steak: The cheaper the better.
In Southern California, at the carnicerĂa you can buy pre-marinated carne asada, and it’s often skirt steak. It’s cheap. It’s delicious. And our local carnicerĂa Continue Reading
Onion Splat, or Pomiane’s 10-minute Onion Soup
We were chopping firewood, sharing a bottle of stout, and talking about this whole cookbook idea when my friend Julian said “hey, have you read Continue Reading
If you need to impress a vegetarian,
maybe for “Meatless Monday” or some other government holiday, then I heartily recommend this halloumi salad. One of its most appealing features is that you’ll Continue Reading
“Let’s throw some tacos together,”
we said when our friend Deb said she would pop over. More often than not, we have enough stuff in the house to make tacos Continue Reading