As I’ve already mentioned, I didn’t drink milk until I moved to Germany in 2005. And if there was one thing I disliked more than milk, it was buttermilk. But my Russian partner made me a drink he insisted I try on a hot summer’s day. It was a blender mix of buttermilk...
I like making cabbage rolls because they’re an easy, low-carb meal, but I always found boiling the cabbage to be a pain in the ass. My life got much easier when I realized I could freeze a whole head of cabbage and then defrost the night before I wanted to make cabbage rolls. The freezing...
There’s really nothing easier. 24 hours in a sous-vide bath set to 55C. I usually don’t marinate or season the meat beforehand unless I’m making Chinese roast pork, but if you want to add flavor when you cook, do it with a light hand. (Especially limit the amount of garlic, since...
When I was a kid, Sunday was special because… bagels and lox. My mom would lay out plates of smoked nova salmon (from the belly of the fish), thinly sliced red onions, slightly thicker slices of ripe tomato, a bowl of cream cheese and a stick of butter, and we’d pile our plates high. T The...