'll be returning soon: the tinga gets made once a week and served till it disappears; it was long gone by the night I visited. It’s a true family-run place: grandma in the kitchen, son running the front of the house,...

'll start...I’ll overlook my “Fancy California Dip” the one I made in my Betty Crocker Blender, (Sour cream and Liptons Onion Soup Mix) when I was 10 and move right up to my early twenties and the dish of the...

’t mind chomping on a handful of charred popcorn kernels. Not burned popped popcorn, but the odd wretched refuse seeds that refuse to fully pop. Am I a fringe element? What about you? Are there dishes you like a little burned? Or...

i’ve never seen a yuzu smoothie there. do they even have a blender in the place? when did you see a smoothie? what did it look like? i’ve only been given yuzu juice when i’ve had omakase there.

She then turned her hand to Fuschia Dunlop’s Dong’an Chicken ... a fair amount of prep work, but the result was bright and sharp — quite different from the thicker-sauced Szechuan recipes we’ve done in the...

really want to impress us, though, get your hands on some real, authentic moonshine.

Saw the menu posted on the window today. Small, but looks inviting – from what I can recall, there’s a cuban, pulled pork sandwich, a handful of entrrees (chicken and pork chops, I think, were two?) in the 15-20...

the chill as an excuse to finally follow Grandma Gertrude’s “rolled cabbage” recipe to the letter. For years I’ve been winging it pretty successfully based on memory alone, but recently my mom gave me...

a few chefs tasting and stirring. Also, I kept thinking... Did those kids wash their hands? Don’t touch your nose and the food! What’s up with Antonia’s knock-knock joke? She had to explain it to her daughter....

dad. Finally, my mom likes to do the special foods for me. (I’ve asked her, I’m not just assuming this.) In the past few years I’ve taken to helping her cook my special dishes myself, but she still takes the...

to the recipes in her "grandma hand writing". I think there were about 10 different recipes for Oatmeal Date cookies, among many other repeats from “Lucille”, “Betty”, or “Celia”! (She was a...

or even Parmesan. CILANTRO-PEPITA DRESSING *** Place chile, pepitas, garlic, pepper, salt, oil, vinegar and cotija cheese in blender or food processor. Blend about 10 seconds, then add cilantro, bit by bit, until smoothly...

oysters; I also cooked 2 lbs of fresh green beans Southern-style with bacon, onion and a few pods of red pepper. And of course mashed potatoes. The neck and some extra giblets were simmered in a quart of chicken stock, then all...

, so no heavy carbs, because they get overloaded on them. One thing I do like and so do they, is to have a small delicious soup. Handing it to them in smallcups as they come in. I’ve done clam chowders, butternut squash,...

In sauces, treat him as one might treat children – puree the h—- out of the onions/garlic(not too much garlic!) and whatever else you want in the darn sauce (use your blender on “liquefy,” not the food...