Impressive, delicious, and easy Pork rillette’s one of those luxury treats you pay a zillion dollars for at the store, but it’s ridiculously easy to make at home, and it keeps for a week in the fridge. And much cheaper to make at home too. How to make pork rillette: Set the oven to 275 …
Category Archives: Lunches
Homemade mayonnaise
A French Habit Americans don’t usually eat hard-boiled eggs with mayonnaise on them. My partner says it seems wrong, redundant because the mayonnaise is also largely made of eggs. But in France oeufs mayonnaise is a very common appetizer. I think the main difference is that American mayonnaise has no flavor, and the French mayonnaise …
Chopped chicken liver
Why chopped liver? Spring’s a good time to eat eggs and chicken, and this recipe has both! It’s not your usual chopped liver that’s a smooth paste; this chopped liver is more like egg salad and at least half vegetables. This is the chopped liver my grandma used to make in Brooklyn. She used a …
French toast
Pain Perdu Did you ever wonder what they call French toast in France? They call it pain perdu – lost bread – because you lose the pieces of bread in the eggs. In England, they call French toast “eggy bread.” Either way, French toast is popular all over, whereever people eat eggs and bread, because …
Bagels from scratch
Not by Bread Alone I grew up on bagels; in Ithaca, New York, bagels were like the default food. People had them for breakfast, lunch, and snack, and then had pizza bagels for dinner. No respectable bagelry would sell a bagel more than two hours old – after that, they gave them away free out …
Grilled cheese
Working too many hours You know you’re too busy when you feel you always have to cook everything on the highest possible heat so it will go as fast as possible because dinner is always late. And a lot of things get burned because they just need medium heat and slower cooking. That was me …
Egg Salad
Easter Eggs Do you hard-boil your Easter Eggs? At my house we always blew ours out, so we could make the eggs into matzobrei, and keep the eggs forever (or until we smashed them). But if you hard-boil at your house, well, that’s what egg salad sandwiches are for. You can also use the eggs to …