A SLICE OF LIFE / DINING IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC
I doubt it’s a world record. It probably isn’t among the longest current streaks. But it’s a personal high of which I am proud. A few nights ago, Jennifer and I ate our 300th consecutive pandemic-inspired home-cooked dinner, pot roast with potatoes and carrots. During... Read More
Something New / Dinner #259 – Baked Eggs
By Larry Levine – Consecutive home-cooked dinner #259. Baked eggs. I’ve cooked dinner at home for Jennifer and me every night since March 16, 2020. We haven’t brought in dinner, not even from places we trusted during “normal” times because Jennifer has enough... Read More
OK, IT’S WINTER. LET’S TALK SOUP with a recipe for Norma Levine’s Homemade Chicken Soup
By Larry Levine – I went out to bring in the mail yesterday afternoon and it was cold. Sunny, but cold. I went out to bring in the newspapers from the driveway this morning and it was cold. The calendar still says autumn but it already feels like winter. Even here in... Read More
Bubble & Squeak / You Don’t Have to be British, but it helps
By Larry Levine – You don’t have to be British, or as in my case married a Brit, but it helps. The English have a sometimes colorful, sometimes mystifying language when it comes to food. A full fry-up is breakfast; bangers are sausages; spotted dick is cake made with... Read More
COOK ONCE, EAT TWICE / handy hints for home cooks, with a recipe for a great Russian Cabbage Soup
By Larry Levine – Cook once, eat twice. Or three times. That’s one of the secrets to how Jennifer and I have eaten home-cooked dinners 66 consecutive nights without getting bored. The last time we ate in a restaurant was March 15, when we had breakfast at Art’s Deli... Read More
NEW COOK OR VETERAN, HERE’S AN EASY TOMATO SALAD RECIPE FOR THE HOME COOK
By Larry Levine – People who cooked once a week, or once a month, or never … Now they’re cooking every night. Most are getting by. Some will become proficient. Some may come to enjoy it and try to do it more frequently once it’s time to get back out of the house. Some... Read More
THANK YOU, YOLANDA, FOR GUACAMOLE AND SO MUCH MORE
The first time I saw Yolanda Quintero she was sitting on a bench in the shade near the sun-drenched concrete playground at the elementary school we attended near downtown Los Angeles. She was 12; I was 10. Yolanda was the first Mexican person I ever met. I thought she... Read More
A TIME-TESTED BRISKET RECIPE FOR PASSOVER OR ANY OTHER DAY
By Larry Levine – There may be as many ways to bake a brisket as there are cooks preparing the meat for a Passover Dinner or any other time of year.. The one I’m sharing here is rooted in a very simple method used by my late mother. I doctored it through the... Read More
DINNER FOR TWO FOR LESS THAN $7 EACH – TWICE
By Larry Levine – How about dinner for two for less than $7 each? Twice. – A whole roast chicken and chicken in mushroom sauce Start with a whole chicken, about 4 – 4 ½ lb. Mix together 4 tablespoons of extra version olive oil, 1 teaspoon each of granulated... Read More
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