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Winter Heat
Posted in blog, Ethnic Cuisine, Recipes, Vegetables Also tagged cauliflower, curry, recipe, veggie belly, zucchini Comments closed
Easy Chicken Curry for My Pal Blake
My dear old pal Blake, author of two superlative biographies of American authors, Richard Yates and John Cheever, and currently the authorized biography of Philip Roth, ended a recent email with "and send me that damned curry recipe."
Blake works very hard, both as a writer (he has not one, but two new books coming out, a memoir and a biography of Charles Jackson), and as a teacher at Old Dominion University. His wife, a psychologist, works as well. They have a young daughter, and provided they aren't flooded out of their home in Virginia and their generator is working (weather tends to follow him—read his Slate stories on being a Katrina victim), one of them will be charged ...
Chicken Curry: Teach Kids To Cook
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 ...
Posted in aromatics, Chicken, Ethnic Cuisine, Recipes, staple meal Also tagged Chicken, cooking with your kids, curry, staple meals Comments closed
















