Category Archives: Memories

How to Make Thanksgiving Gravy
and Amazing Cranberry Sauce

Cranberry Sauce for My Dad. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

My dad made this cranberry sauce when my daughter was very young. He was mystified, as I recall, having never cooked cranberries before, always used the kind with can-ribs, sliceable. That his granddaughter loved it made it very special to him. He continued to make it. His granddaughter is no longer four but rather seventeen and she will be making it this year (and so did I, because I wanted to share it in this post and think of my dad while it cooked). It's really simple, can be done today or the day of (or several days ahead, next year). Just throw everything in the pot, bring it to a simmer, and set a timer for 90 minutes. It will thicken up, but you may want to give it ...

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The Main Dish—My Kindle Single

A food writer's memoir

Ever since I read Anne Patchett's The Getaway Car, a short memoir on writing, I've wanted to write my own Kindle Single, a venue for fiction and nonfiction that's longer than a magazine story but shorter than a book. (The NYTimes reviewed the singles here.) Any device running Android or iTunes can read Kindle books and Kindle Singles by downloading the free Kindle app. I've bought more Kindle books this year for my iPad than I have in the past five years in hardcover or paperback. I love to read on my iPad, and on my iPhone. So here's my entree into exclusively digital space. I hope you'll have a look. It's a short memoir (10K words or about 35 manuscript pages), on how I got to where I am, a writer of food ...

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Bringing People Together

How food brings us closer together even at the end of life, via NYT.

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Dinner with Pardus

 

Chef Pardus and Michael sharing a tasting moment. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

My Dinner with Pardus

Originally posted July 31, 2008 Do you have any veal hearts?” Pardus asked. The vendor, with happiness and surprise, said, “I do!” He pulled it out of the cooler and said, “How about five bucks?” “Sold!” What happens when a chef visits for the weekend? My old instructor and now close friend Mike Pardus (pronounced PAR-dus—some people think because he’s a chef, it’s pronounced par-DOO) visited recently. The main fact about Michael is that he is a cook in every fiber of his body, meaning, in part, that when he’s away from his work as a chef instructor at the CIA, when he can do anything he wants because he’s on holiday, he chooses to cook all day. Which ...

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Summer Staples

Spatchcocked chicken and grilled green beans. Photos by Michael's iPhone.

One of my missions in writing about food is to encourage more people to cook for their friends and families. Many, many people tell me, “I want to cook healthy affordable meals for my family, but I’m just so busy.” So, I did a post on staple meals, since staple meals, the ones you return to on a weekly basis, are defined by ease, speed, goodness of flavor, and economy. (Another of ours is tomato basil pasta—see the iPhone video of a cool tomato water technique.) The first thing you need to do to make it easy for your busy schedule is to plan! Have a plan. The above is one of our summer favorites, the same staple meal I posted about before, only on ...

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