by SAM Steiner | Apr 21, 2022 | From the Kitchen
My relationship with Spanish jamon (ham) started with a Wall Street Journal article on July 20, 2004, the day of my husband’s red-eye puddle jump from his genetics conference in Seville. I took a coffee break with the WSJ after dropping the kids off at school. “Aged...
by SAM Steiner | Mar 3, 2022 | From the Kitchen
I love everything about this generous, delicious plant! Burying the cloves in October after the first frost. Being greeted in April by the tender Spring-green shoots in my barren vegetable patch. Harvesting glorious curly garlic scapes in June. Drying the pods in...
by SAM Steiner | Dec 22, 2021 | From the Kitchen
“…you will find it quite easy to do, for a bûche de Noël is merely a spongecake batter baked in a jelly-roll pan, rolled with a filling, and decorated log-fashion with…various woodsy trimmings.”- Julia Child (page 192, The French Chef Cookbook(1968) New York: Alfred...
by SAM Steiner | Nov 9, 2021 | From the Kitchen
The locavore movement, established on World Environment Day in 2005 in San Francisco, encourages the consumption of local seasonal products. Portland was “going locavore” before it hit the rest of the nation. We have belonged to a Community-Sustained Agriculture farm...
