Category Archives: aromatics

A spice, herb, or vegetable that helps build flavor in a sauce, soup, stock, or any dish. Also includes mirepoix.

Classic Hollandaise

 

Making a traditional Hollandaise, yolks in a vinegar reduction (all photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman).

On Saturday night, sitting in the Ohio State Theater waiting for Jim Gaffigan to go on, I got a tweet from Elise alerting me that a website had stolen my text and Donna's photos from the following post. Elise, creator of the site Simply Recipes and vigilant crusader for blogger rights and general Internet justice, also sent me a link to the Google page to report copyright infringement. I wrote to Google, and the folks there had the theft taken down within days. So here's a prime example of the very hard work Elise does, not just her consistently excellent publishing at Simply Recipes, but also her work on behalf of other bloggers. And also ...

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Staple Meal: Stir-Fry

Staple meal from Twenty, beef and pepper stir-fry. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

When your computer crashes, you find out just how precarious your life is without technology. None of yesterday's work was backed up, so that's what's going on here! Today will be spent trying to restore what I can. Life will be normal again, I suppose, soon but not now. Thank goodness for good partners (viz Donna), wonderful assistants (thank you, Emilia!), and easy staple meals that you can count on, meals that are a breeze to prepare and a comfort to eat at the end of a frustrating day.
 
The following is a weekly staple dinner in the Ruhlman household, a simple beef stir-fry, published in Ruhlman's Twenty, which happily just won both a James Beard award and an IACP ...

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Chicken Curry: Teach Kids To Cook

Chicken Curry by James/Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

There are lots of ways to change the food system, and you and I aren't likely to do it. It's going to be our kids who do it. Two weeks ago I threw together a quick chicken curry and both the kids liked it, so I asked, "Is this a keeper?" and they nodded, chewing hungrily. So, last week, when 12-year-old James got home from school, I said, "We're having chicken curry tonight." He said, "Yes." I said, "You're going to make it." He didn't respond. "I'll do all the prep and you're going to make it." He said, "OK." An hour before I wanted dinner on the table, I diced an onion. I've already taught him how to hold a knife and halve, slice, or dice an onion; tonight I wanted him to see how ...

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Persian Rice

An exotic crunchy rice dish to add to your recipe list, via New York Times.

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Onion Tart

Learn how to make a delicious onion tart. It is so easy and so tasty, via NYT.

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