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Notes
Short bits that don't fit a recipe page: tool I love, pantry staple I keep buying, idea I'm chewing on. Written when there's something to say.
Cooking when you're tired: a triage system
On the nights when chopping an onion feels like a betrayal of self-care, most people do one of three things: order in, eat cereal, or open the fridge, look at it for forty...
Buy seasonal: it's basically cheating, and the market does the calendar for you
Out-of-season tomatoes lead a more eventful life than most of us. They're picked green, ride four thousand kilometers in a refrigerated truck, attend three trade shows, and arrive...
The freezer is not a graveyard
Open most freezers and you will find: half a loaf of bread from August, a single chicken thigh of unknown vintage, a jar of pesto with frost on it, a container labelled "rice?" in...
The five-ingredient rule, and when to break it
Most weeknight meals would be better with one fewer ingredient than you put in them. The instinct, when cooking, is to keep adding: a pinch of this, a swirl of that, the herb on...
How to leave the market with the good stuff (and most of your money)
Out-of-season tomatoes lead a more eventful life than most of us. They're picked green, ride four thousand kilometers in a refrigerated truck, attend three trade shows, and arrive...