Slice of Rice

Some recipes are far more trouble than they are worth.  We have made more than our fair share of dishes that take hours and involve dirty...

In mid-April I started thinking tacos and Cinco de Mayo .  Mexican food screams warm weather to me and I have been dreaming about warm we...

This is totally embarassing.  Alex and I made this roast chicken back in February or March.  And then I forgot to post it.  I really tho...

  I love traveling but sometimes, when I get back, all I want is salad.  I was in Miami for work last week and when I got back yesterday...

Pesto usually leaves me feeling a little... blah.  I like it on a sandwich or as the sauce on a pizza, but there has to be more stuff goi...

This weekend seems to be the weekend for posting about hunks of roasted meats.  On Saturday I posted a roasted pork shoulder.  I finally...

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!  I don't know about y'all, but as much as I enjoy Thanksgiving, it wrecks me for weeks to come.  Too ...

  I love kale salads.  And yet, so many of the ones we make at home are vaguely disappointing.  I feel like it's tough to strike...

There is a restaurant in the East Village called Mercadito that has the best shrimp tacos I have ever tasted.  They also make really goo...

I was really intrigued when I saw a recipe for broccoli rabe in Naomi Duguid's Burmese cookbook.  Broccoli rabe is not a traditional ...

I don't have a lot of experience with Burmese food, but I got pretty excited when I saw that Naomi Duguid had a new cookbook.  Hot So...

Clearly I am fickle because I just found my new favorite watermelon salad.  And I think I declared my previous favorite (Hugh Acheson...

Last June I saw this recipe on Serious Eats for Corn Som Tam and got all excited.  Then life got in the way and before I knew it corn ...

I know I referenced this recipe weeks ago and promised to post about it.  And then I didn't.  This isn't going to be the longest...

I have a new favorite cookbook.  I know it's a little ridiculous to call something my new favorite cookbook when I have only made a s...

For some reason on our last trip to Cost Co I decided to pick up a can of jumbo crab.  I say "for some reason" because I am not...

What do you do when you have like 3/4 of a pound of Southwestern Pulled Brisket left in the fridge and 3 ripe avocados?  You could make...

Sometime last fall Alex and I tried a Turkish restaurant called Peri Ela on the Upper East Side based on a recommendation from a friend....

When left to his own devices, if I ask Alex to pick out a recipe for dinner he will pick an Asian (or Asian-influenced) recipe nine times...

  We are currently on a bit of a Korean kick.  We made six (Belated) Chinese New Year meals (I know that I still owe you guys one (Belate...