For Whom the Bell Pepper Tolls
For Whom the Bell Pepper Tolls
A collection of personal recipes, kitchen thoughts, and practical advice nobody asked for.
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One sweltering late-summer night, my husband and I decided to go out for pizza. We’d seen a place around the corner from our hotel in Brooklyn, an unpretentious shop that had seemingly been left out of the social media hype pieces about the best pizzerias in New York. We walked there, ordered our slices, a…
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This satisfying homestyle dish has its origins in the soy sauce braised chicken that my aunt made the summer I stayed with her in Guangzhou, China. Hers was a simple but delicious, deeply flavoured dish that we loved to spoon over white rice. My version of soy sauce braised chicken includes a handful of shiitake…
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Some recipes hit all the notes but take hours to make and produce a veritable mountain of dishes. If you love to cook and have the time to devote to one of those recipes, then they are absolutely worth the time and effort. Those are the recipes that make you feel like a chef, that…
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I love garlic. For the past couple of years, my husband’s grandfather has been giving us garlic from his garden, a gift which I now look forward to every fall. He claims he isn’t able to use it up fast enough “before it starts to grow again.” I don’t have that problem. Like I said,…
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Chili is a cold-weather staple in my household, and this is the recipe that I’ve finally formalized after many years of iterations. It doesn’t make any bold claims to be the “best chili in the known universe,” though it is my family’s favourite chili recipe and the only recipe I will make. It isn’t so…
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Despite embarking on the journey of curating a collection of recipes, I don’t do much recipe cooking in real life. Don’t get me wrong–I love recipes. I enjoy reading them and have a number of go-to’s in my back pocket at all times, but after the first cook-through, I tend to think of recipes as…
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My husband recently told me that this miso salmon rice bowl is (at least one of) his favourite meals, which is a tremendous compliment coming from a guy that doesn’t have many favourite anythings. This is a meal that comes together from very simple components. It requires very little active time or skill, and it…
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My take on a classic Minestrone soup was conceived at Heathrow Airport seven years ago, in a mediocre restaurant that likely no longer exists. Fresh off a seven hour flight and facing down an eight hour layover, my husband and I stopped in an Italian restaurant in Terminal 3 for an early (per local time)…
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It tolls for my husband. Almost invariably, the consumption of bell pepper causes digestive upset in my household. Green is the worst kind, but sometimes the red and yellow varieties cause trauma in their aftermath, too. As such, we don’t eat much bell pepper here, or most other types of capsicum for that matter, which…