I make the biggest messes in the kitchen. This is not quaint, controlled disorder with scraped-clean plates piled perfectly beside the sink. No, when I’m done, there’s tomato sauce splattered on the wall and walnuts found miscellaneously in my silverware drawer and herb sprigs spread like confetti on the floor. Sometimes, I don’t mind cleaning […]
Cooking For Two
Steak & Quinoa Fried Rice with Eggplant & Green Beans
I believe in fried rice. For one, I try to eat meals centered on grains and vegetables, in order to stay budget-conscious and flexitarian. Fried rice wins on that front. Also, if I can make a whole meal in one pan, I feel exuberant, accomplished, and smiley. Another point for fried rice (if you use […]
Perfect Baked Clams
Once, my mom and I went on a clam tour of coastal Connecticut. Clam country. We were driving back to New York from New London, where my older sister Jill went to college. We kept stopping at little restaurants and inns for snacks. And we kept ordering clams: baked, fried, steamed, stuffed, Casino. I am […]
Chicken Curry with Bananas, Raisins, and Peanuts
Being a pre-teen with a mom who’s hipper than you is both humbling and awesome. While you would have preferred that you revealed to her that Nolita was the latest up-and-coming neighborhood for shopping and dining, when you marched into your Monday homeroom in a pair of the coolest high-waisted magenta suede pants anyone in […]
Filet Mignon for Two
A browse through this site’s recipe index reveals plenty of beef and steak recipes but nothing completely straightforward. Obviously part of what’s fun about BGSK is that I get to be creative in the kitchen. But that doesn’t mean brisket needs five spice powder or flank steak calls for a miso marinade. For this year’s […]
Not-So-Bachelor Baked Beans
Last week was slow around here because last weekend I got married to Alex! For all the time I spend internet-ing and on social media, I’m not terribly talented at sharing real life’s big moments online. And the wedding feels private, gloriously so–all ours, and our families’ and our friends’. So instead of talking about […]
The Best Indoor Grilled Chicken with Kale-Rice Salad
Chicken is easy, chicken is quick. Chicken can make a salad a meal, or make a bowl of rice or pasta enticing to a carnivorous type. Yet chicken is not first on my list of easy and quick dinners. I’m no saint, but plopping a chicken breast on a baking sheet and letting it dry […]
Salmon Spaghetti with Plum Tomatoes and Avocado
I’m happy to report that Food Network’s Summer Fest is back! In the whirring speed of these summer weeks, I missed last week’s zucchini theme, despite the fact that I adore zucchini in sandwiches, curries, pastas, and more. The week before, you may have caught my Summer Fest plum week post about Grandma Esther’s Plum Cake, which […]
Linguine with Clam Sauce
SEAFOOD PASTAS: Spicy Tomato Stew with Spaghetti; Shrimp Angel Hair; Egg Pasta with Saffron, Shrimp, and Peas; Mediterranean Catfish Spaghetti; Sardine Linguine with Sundried Tomatoes and Olives If I was six and you asked me what I wanted for dinner, I would probably tell you that I wanted Linguine with Clam Sauce–hold the clams. (I […]
Mussels with Chorizo and Cherry Tomatoes
Top of my New Year’s Resolution list this year was to move out. Being 26 years old and living at home is just not a sustainable state of affairs. And yet, all of a sudden, it was 2012, and I realized I had sustained the situation for seven whole months. After a week of literally […]