Category Archives: Food and Cooking

Kitchen adventures, disasters, and triumphs

Cooking Things: Highways and Hedges enchiladas

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Marchbanks

You go out into the highways and the hedges and invite the new ingredients to the party instead. And then you name the mole in their honour. Continue reading →

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Cooking things in a quandary: Chicken portuguesa

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Marchbanks

I made a famous secret recipe, but the reason for the secret might have disappeared. So should I publish how to make Chicken portuguesa? Continue reading →

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Cooking Lessons: Double Chocolate Scones

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Marchbanks

I found out scones are easy, but my son didn’t like my first batch so I taught him how to make scones he likes. Continue reading →

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Cooking Things: Scones (and Getting to Work from Home)

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Marchbanks

One thing I don’t get from working remotely is to go out and have breakfast or lunch that I didn’t have to make myself, and that gets boring. So I’m making different things—like scones. Continue reading →

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Cooking things: Pickled Okra

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Marchbanks

It’s okra time.  Fresh okra is in the supermarket, and it is time for fried okra and pickled okra, as much as we can right now. Continue reading →

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Cooking Things: Braised Pork Heart

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Marchbanks

Hearts and other organ meats are crazy good and very cheap; a solution to what happens when a rich bastard gets all the good bits. Continue reading →

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Cooking things: Arugula, Potato, and Leek Soup

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Marchbanks

As watercress changes potato soup into something that doesn’t taste quite like any of the individual ingredients, so arugula transforms this traditional soup base. Flexible, the soup can be puréed to a chunky or a smooth texture, and served hot, as a main dish, or chilled, as a first course. Continue reading →

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Cooking Things: Spicy Chicken Capellini

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Marchbanks

It was time for dinner, and I had a pound’s worth of slightly-freezer-burned chicken breasts and a pound’s worth of pasta, and some peppery breading left over from a bunch of buffalo wings last week.  From this I needed to … Continue reading →

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Eating out:  épicerie

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Marchbanks

Go for the food. It’s good. But be prepared to prod the staff as needed. Continue reading →

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I could chew nails and spit tacks (also, cooking salmon croquettes)

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Marchbanks

Instead of recovering from neck surgery tonight, I made salmon croquettes. Continue reading →

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