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Crab Boil
Crab boil consists of kielbasa, corn, potatoes, and crab. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.
How To Prepare a Simple Crab Boil
Originally posted on August 11, 2011 By far the best meal of the summer was our crab boil during our week in Ocracoke. And like many “best” meals, it was unplanned, a surprise, a gift we were smart enough to take advantage of. Donna has pals from her native Port Washington, NY, who have houses here, and one owns a popular restaurant on this lovely barrier island off the coast of North Carolina (a ferry ride away from Cape Hatteras). So she found us a swank house on the water where we and friends and Donna's sister and nieces could frolic. In the grass beside the house was an old crab pot. In the ...Posted in american regional cuisine, aromatics, Food Adventure, Recipes, Seafood Also tagged corn, crab boil, kielbasa Comments closed
Butter Is a Vegetable
"Butter Is a Vegetable" month: making beurre monté. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman
Posted in Food Culture, Rant, Vegetables Also tagged Beurre Monte, Dan Barber, Eating Habits, French Laundry Cookbook, harold mcgee, rant, twenty, Vegetables Comments closed
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 ...
Posted in aromatics, Breakfast, Food Writing, From Scratch, Kitchen Tips, Ratios, Recipes, sauce, Technique Also tagged Breakfast, classic, Hollandaise sauce, sauce, yolks Comments closed
