I don’t watch as much food television as you might imagine. I still enjoy Nigella Lawson; her unabashed – nay, wanton – love of food always delights me. Her show was pioneering in its stylishness (you may recall that she originally aired on Style, not any food network), with artsy shifts in focus and food…
Kenyan Kidney Beans in Coconut Milk (Maharagwe)
It’s amazing how often I try something new and delicious because I’m too lazy to go to the store. That was the case last Vegetarian Week, when… Wait, I haven’t told you about Vegetarian Weeks. Let me do that real quick. I decided last December that, starting in 2012, I would cook and eat vegetarian…
Calzone Monster
Lest you think it’s always fun and games in Unfussy Epicure’s kitchen, I thought I’d share with you a couple of photos of last night’s dinner. This impressionistic lava monster crocodile was meant to be a pizza. I was feeling kind of lazy last night, so I decided to make my favorite standby. Usually pizza…
Cereal Milk Panna Cotta with Cornflake Crunch
Last week I picked up a cookbook from the library: The Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook by Christina Tosi. I read it cover to cover, in one sitting, like an irresistible novel. Tosi, the chef at Milk Bar – the bakery and sweets outpost of David Chang’s Momofuku brand of restaurants – is a lot of fun. Her…
Matanza!
Ah, my vegetarian readers. You know I love you, don’t you? I do. I promise. Now, you might want to go away for this one. The same goes for anyone with religious or other proscriptions against eating pork. Because what I’m talking about today is a matanza, which is quite simply an orgy of pig-eating….
Fluffy Biscuit-Topped Blueberry Cobbler with Pear
I didn’t really grow up with dessert. Not that my family never made sweets; the heirloom box of Grandma’s recipes is practically nothing but sweets, written in an endearing yet frustrating shorthand style with helpful instructions like “Mix. Bake.” But we certainly didn’t have dessert every night, and when cakes and cookies and butterscotch haystacks…
Quick and Easy Whole-Wheat Flatbread
It happens to me all the time. I have a good idea for dinner, and all the components are in the house, but it sure would be nice to have some kind of bread with it. Something delicious and whole grain. But it’s too late to throw something in the breadmaker, and I’m too lazy…
Quick Eats: Middle Eastern Grain Salad
This is less a recipe than an idea. A really tasty, simple, healthful idea. It came about from a half-cup of leftover bulgur, a fridge full of odds and ends with a vaguely Middle Eastern flair, and a need for lunch. I tried something similar with quinoa and with brown rice, also to good effect….
Stuffed Collard Leaves with Savory Pork Filling
It turns out that a name is not just a name when you’re writing a blog. My poetry group used to tell me that about poem titles too (“Kristin, you can’t just call them all ‘Untitled!’”), but I think the reasoning was different. With a food blog, you need a descriptive title so that someone…
Spiced Breakfast Bulgur with Winter Fruit
It’s January. The holidays, with their fuss and excess, are over. Thoughts turn, with some relief, to New Year’s resolutions: specifically, to diet and exercise. I don’t really like New Year’s resolutions, and I specifically am not a fan of diets – America’s favorite resolution – which I think set us all up for endless…