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Sincronizada: Ham and Cheese and …

Sincronizada: Ham and Cheese and …

Breakfast in Texas offers opportunities for diversity. First, find a good, really good Tex-Mex spot. Like Curra’s Grill in South Austin. Then peruse the menu, find something you’ve never heard of, and give it a fling. Like a sincronizada [yes, “synchronized”]. It...
Just My Type by Simon Garfield

Just My Type by Simon Garfield

Cookbooks and web pages appear using some font to let each word gracefully take its place. Poor font selection — the wrong style or the wrong size or the wrong color — can make reading a recipe a chore. Perhaps too much of a chore to even finish reading that recipe or...
Best Ever Split Pea Soup from Good Enough to Eat

Best Ever Split Pea Soup from Good Enough to Eat

Around the corner from us in Tribeca years ago, there was a glorious neighborhood spot called Good Enough to Eat. Our version is long gone but there is still an outpost uptown. Of course, Downtowners never go uptown so … The food was lovely and has been perfectly...
Caramelized Onions

Caramelized Onions

Yesterday’s post was for superior mashed potatoes, made with goat cheese and caramelized onions. Now, you can caramelize onions many ways but this recipe, from Texas Cowboy Kitchen, offers a quite sophisticated approach. Red, white, and green onions are all combined....
The Vitamixes Have Arrived

The Vitamixes Have Arrived

                                                                      We very, very happy...