Quintessentially southern. Yes it was. Yet, the catch was that the recipe was inspired from my new Momofuku cookbook. The liquid used to cook the grits was not your traditional water, but a bacon dashi. Yes. I boiled a half a pound of bacon in water that had previously been steeping with two sheets of seaweed. It was odd, looked disgusting, but the taste…THE TASTE!
Sometimes I just like keeping recipes to myself. Not like a secret or anything, but I just don’t feel like sharing them with all of the hundreds of millions of people who read this blog (cough). Okay, kidding. Just one million. Read the rest of this entry »
Ahhh! People. I have two days off. Yes. Working six days a week is not sustainable as I showed myself last Monday when I almost fell asleep standing up as I was making potato gnocchi. As I stood there, rolling little potato ball after potato ball on to the gnocchi board, I started to lose the concept of what gnocchi should look like. I have forgotten what it is like to actually enjoy a day off and not have to jam pack it with laundry, dishes, nail clipping (for the dog) and recipe experiments. Now I can check out new restaurants I have been meaning to try, and also have another night to cook out of a new cookbook and spend quality time with Erik. And, I can actually take a nap in the middle of the day and not feel like I am wasting valuable hours to get stuff done. Read the rest of this entry »
04 Nov
This summer, while sitting at the dock of Matthew’s beach, one of my chef friends said to me with great excitement, “I think I have constructed the perfect hamachi dish: grapefruit, lavender, fennel-saffron puree, fennel pollen”. I looked at him, wide eyed, and asked him how many times he had tested the recipe. He looked [...]
02 Nov
Family meal is such an interesting topic in the restaurant world. Some restaurants do it. Some don’t. Some restaurants serve the meal before service to the entire staff, generally using leftovers from the night before and some restaurants don’t mind if you nourish yourself from the pantry, obviously, but you have to fend for yourself. [...]
26 Oct
Today, I finally felt on the verge of a burn out. Yep. It finally happened to me. If I had worked today, it would have been two solid weeks without a break. That is just not healthy. While I laid in bed, tucked in my overstuffed down comforter, I texted my sous chef at Tavolata [...]
24 Oct
I was holding out on you. A lot of you knew I had a new cooking job, but I was mum on the subject. I just didn’t want to jinx the amazing opportunity.
The new job is three days a week: Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday. It doesn’t conflict with my “Stage” with Ethan Stowell which I [...]
20 Oct
There is something to be said about large, comforting breakfasts at home. But, I can count on my left hand how many times I have actually cooked breakfast. My versions consist of streaming tap water into a coffee mug and ripping open a brown package of cinnamon flavored instant oatmeal, or pulling cold skim milk [...]
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Posted by Kari on November 11th, 2009
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