Now that I live in Baltimore, I go to my parents’ house two to four times a month to visit and do laundry and, more often than not, I’ll also spend the night there. My parents are big meat eaters – they love that Kenny is back on all types of meat so he can [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Broiled Tilapia with Sweet Potato Crust from gumbopages.com
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, tagged mercury in fish, sweet potatoes, tilapia on March 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Frozen Greek Yogurt – A Quick Ice Cream Substitute
Posted in Experiments, Recipes, tagged frozen yogurt, greek yogurt on March 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For the last few nights, I have been craving ice cream at the most inappropriate times. Last night, the craving hit on my ride home from school, and I didn’t have my wallet with me. What I did have was Greek yogurt in my refrigerator. Could frozen Greek yogurt be a quick substitute for ice [...]
Food in Art: Gum at the Whitney Biennial
Posted in Art and Food, tagged 2010 whitney biennial, juicy fruit, theaster gates, wrigley gum on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Walking past 75th and Madison in New York, there’s a sweet smell lingering in the air. On a recent visit, Kenny thought we must be passing a hookah bar, and I looked around for a prodigious gum smacker chewing an entire pack of Juicy Fruit. But then we went to the Whitney Museum on the [...]
Food News, March 12, 2010: Raw Chocolate Class, Cleveland’s New Farm Stand
Posted in Baltimore, Food News, tagged Cleveland, farm stands, malls, raw chocolate on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In this week’s Food News, a raw chocolate class in Maryland on March 27th and Cleveland’s new food project in the Galleria mall: Raw Chocolate: You’ve seen how dark chocolate has taken over our candy choices – in last night’s The Mentalist, Simon Baker’s character, Patrick Jane, said he liked “what we’re doing with chocolate [...]
Why I’m Not Sold on Chickpea Flour
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, tagged chickpea flour, chickpea fries, mark bittman on March 11, 2010 | 8 Comments »
A few months ago, I bought some chickpea flour, mistakenly thinking it was the type of flour I needed to make Indian breads (it’s actually chapati flour that is used to make them). So what do you do with chickpea flour? The back of the bag had a recipe for hummus, but I still left [...]
Bull Roasts: A Maryland Tradition
Posted in Baltimore, tagged bull roast, maryland history on March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I grew up hearing about bull roasts. To my younger self, it seemed like my parents were always going to one. But I didn’t know that bull roasts are a distinctively Maryland event until I had to explain them to Kenny, a native New Yorker. It took a while. Marylanders (or my family at least) pronounce [...]
Food News, March 5, 2010: Fresh Food at Walmart?
Posted in Food News, tagged produce, the atlantic, walmart on March 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Can you find organic and local food at your local Walmart? Yes, at least in the Boston and Austin areas, according to the March 2010 The Atlantic. The writer Corby Kummer even holds a ”grocery smackdown,” buying identifical ingredients from Walmart and Whole Foods and illiciting the help of a chef to make two four-course meals. You’ll have to read to find [...]
Max’s Empanadas, a Review of Sorts
Posted in Baltimore, tagged 32nd street farmers market, Baltimore restaurants, max's empanadas on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t usually write restaurant reviews because there are other Baltimore food bloggers and magazine writers who are really good at it. But I found a new restaurant over the weekend that I really loved, so much that I had to write about it: Max’s Empanadas. We had our first taste of these savory pockets [...]
