Rainy Day Meals

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Recipes

Latkes

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Traditional Channukah latkes differ from potato pancakes in one primary way: matza meal is used instead of flour, giving a slightly different texture and flavor as the crispy little cracker bits get fried up. The rest is hotly debated, but my recipe is canonical. 😉

Chocolate Chip cookies

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Everyone has a favorite right? This is mine. It was inspired by a recipe from Cooks Illustrated, but has been tweaked a bit. People warn new cooks not to play with baking recipes too much, because baking is chemistry. This is true, but there’s still a LOT you can do to make these cookies your […]

Delicious Rice

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Rice is one of the most flexible ingredients on earth. The kind of rice you use, how you cook it, and what you add can make rice a complex self-contained dish (e.g. Paella) or a base for other flavors. It can be a cohesive bite (sushi), a silky pudding, or distinct grains in the bowl. […]

Black Bean Chili

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This recipe emerged from the iconic Greens Restaurant, and you can check there for the base concept: https://greensrestaurant.com/2015/02/black-bean-chili/ My family has been making this for decades, and in that time we’ve riffed on it a bit. That’s what this recipe will attempt to capture.

Welcome!

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I first set this site up more than three years ago, without being sure what I would do with it. At the time I was cooking for a friend going through some medical issues. I wanted to collect some of the recipes I adapted for her, like lemongrass tea as a healthy alternative to high-sugar […]