This is perhaps the easiest recipe I could post, but it is so simple and miraculous and delicious that you will no doubt make it again and again. Just dump plenty of heavy cream into a mixer or food processor and beat until the butter and the “butter milk” begin to separate. Or you could [...]
Posted by: Will on July 25th, 2007 © Filed under: Condiments | No Comments »
Ever since I moved to Long Beach, CA, home to over 50,000 Cambodian immigrants and said to be the second largest Cambodian community in the world after Phnom Penh, I’ve had easy access to some of the tastiest and most authentic Cambodian and Thai food in the US. In fact, some of these restaurants are [...]
Posted by: Will on July 23rd, 2007 © Filed under: Condiments | No Comments »
The bitters materials arrived a week ago Thursday, but other projects kept me from launching the experiment until this Wednesday night. I had fun jarring, labeling, and tasting all of the different components. Then I measured out the ingredient and assembled the mixes. It took only a few minutes – I just tossed everything together [...]
Posted by: Will on July 20th, 2007 © Filed under: Cocktails & Spirits, Condiments | 1 Comment »
This time of year in California, the farmers markets are overflowing with every imaginable kind of produce. It’s best to keep me away because my acquisitive nature takes over and I want to buy everything – everything. This also happens in art museums, but while I cannot afford to buy art, I can buy pretty [...]
Posted by: Will on July 13th, 2007 © Filed under: Condiments, Preserves | No Comments »
Much to the chagrin of our parents, Will and I have also come to love classic cocktails. OK, so maybe we loved them a bit too well in our early 20s, but I like to think that early enthusiasm has developed into a healthy connoisseurship. But aside from the usual bitters examples – Jagermeister, Fernet [...]
Posted by: Will on July 3rd, 2007 © Filed under: Cocktails & Spirits, Condiments | 2 Comments »
