Tomatilla!

It is that time of month again. The third edition of the Paper Chef will take place a week from Friday on February 4th through 7th. As we muddle along, trying to find the method that works best for all of us, here is where the current ingredient list stands:

anchovies, cinnamon, smoked paprika, oranges, wheat [...]

So, I am hoping to slip in under the wire here…I made a warm French Lentil Salad of my own devising yesterday and today a lovely Tarka Red Lentil Dahl from Maddhur Jaffrey’s fantastic cookbook, “Quick and Easy Indian Cooking.”

I had made a stunning roast leg of lamb that I cooked for seven hours at [...]

Wednesdays are vegetable box days. We have been getting a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) box from Terra Firma Farms in Winters, CA for about ten years now (with a two year hiatus when we lived on the isolated North Coast). It has always been a delight. We get the large version which costs us $104 [...]

In the blinding haste of tracking all the entries for the last Paper Chef, I never got around to posting my own non-entry. I always try to make something even though I am not allowed to participate.

I had a few ideas about what to make mostly involving curries and stews but I decided to go [...]

Back to the writing about food I made rather than the writing about writing about food that other people made.

I made a simple mashed potato and chicken meal the other night and deliberately made much too much mashed potato. I wanted to get back to making gnocchi and see what else I could come up [...]

I had to go and start another blog. At least this one I can pass off as a business expense…

Some of you know that I am in the throes of starting a small publishing company of my own. Not surprisingly, its first title will be about cooking and food. Specifically it will be a compilation [...]

Paper Chef January 2005

We have a winner (or three). Ronald of Is My Blog Burning and Love Sicily wanted to give three awards, so here they are…

I could go on and on about how wonderful they all were, what a great work they all did, how it was very difficult to choose because each [...]

OK, the gate has closed and all entries are in. We got a wonderful eleven entries this time from as far afield as Sweden and Singapore (well Singapore via Texas and England). Our guest judge, Ronald of Is My Blog Burning and Love Sicily is going to have his hands full with this one!

Here are [...]

[[Two hours left for entries... Note from Owen: everything that follows in this post is the responsibility of my brother. You can make all complaints, comments, plaudits etc. to him.]]

The Paper Chef: Chicken Savoy

As you could extrapolate from the title of this dish, my style of cooking tends to be simple and quick. Had I [...]

Entries are coming in. It is very exciting. I even got one from my brother James, who I knew dropped in occasionally since I do look at referrer logs from time to time, and who else from Alabama would it be?

James doesn’t have a blog of his own – and it would be about either [...]