by Michael Ruhlman | Apr 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Chili with fixins, radish, sour cream, scallion, cilantro, fried chilis, rice, cheese. My father, Rip, loved to cook (and to feed people). And he loved chili. But not what you got in Cleveland. In 1970s Cleveland, chili meant ground beef and kidney beans in some kind...
by Michael Ruhlman | Apr 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s about time I actually made a Hemingway Daiquiri, which adds grapefruit juice and maraschino liqueur to the standard daiquiri. Hemingway apparently didn’t like simple syrup (getting far too much sugar from all the booze he consumed), but I think the...
by Michael Ruhlman | Apr 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sourdough Bread OK, so it’s both as easy as you are lead to believe, and also not exactly. Several Sundays ago, my wife announced she was going to make sourdough bread starter and read me The NYTimes recipe she was going to try. From the bread guru Peter...
by Michael Ruhlman | Apr 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
A taste test of the margarita and the mezcal margarita proves the supremacy of the later. Having come into adulthood in the 1980s, all I knew of cocktails such as the Daiquiri and the Margarita were that they were slushy chemical confections consumed in unpleasant...
by Michael Ruhlman | Apr 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve been on an Instant Pot tear ever since the Beloved threatened to hide it because I was ruining perfectly good food. One thing I knew it was good for absolutely was stock. I’d found a few pounds of beef bones at the store and 1-1/2 pig’s trotter,...
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