Dr. Teeth

Beans and rice. Rancho Gordo black turtle beans. Guacamole. Fajita vegetables. Middle son did most of the finish work. He did great. Super proud.

Keep playing with it, changing or adding one thing each time. Miso glazed broiled salmon, over sesame ramen with memba, avacado, yu toy and garlic crisps

Still fooling around with variations in a theme: Miso glazed steelhead over sesame ramen with baby spinach

Tuna marinated in soy, pixian bean paste and miso, then seared. Served over package wavy noodles with avacado, cilantro and garlic crisps.

Some sort of mashup between a Beef with Broccoli and Jap Chae. King Oyster mushrooms, Chinese Broccoli and sweet potato noodles in a beef and broccoli sauce.

Bought as well as a self Christmas gift. It’s a neat book. I think the real sweet spot audience wise is folks cooking for one, who can handle the calories of ramen, who are learning to feed themselves. I really like it and will cook from it. But it will probably be more popular with my kids/ college kids of friends I plan on gifting copies to.

New Years Day Hoppin John with skillet cornbread.

Ok, last one of the year. Wife made funnel cake for the youngest kid after we left Busch Garden quickly last week and skipped the funnel cake stand. This is without any remotely relevant experience. Motherhood is a mysterious and powerful thing.

Early remorse vegetable dinner before the real diet begins following new year. Crysanthemum with sesame miso dressing and baby Chinese broccoli in oyster sauce. Happy New Years All. Looking forward to seeing what you cook in 2026

Merry Christmas all. Menu changed at the last minute due to a variety of factors. Final menu: Smoked oysters Cocktail shrimp Seafood salad Candied Salmon Bottarga egg Baked clams Crab dip Mussel, fennel and shallot pasta

Serious Pig, followed closely by Outlaw Cook.

Plan for year: Guest announced he would be bringing: “a cold salmon thing, kind of like that thing you do,” rather than octopus. So I’m thinking: Cocktail Shrimp Seafood Salad (Shrimp, Squid, Scungilli) Jammy egg with bottarga (a bit on the fence on this one) Salmon thing guest brings Smoked Oysters Sprats on rye (trying to avoid two salmon, so this is a sub for usual salmon dish) Baked Clams Broiled Mussels with snail butter Pasta either: Stuffed Calamari (if they have ones big enough to stuff) or Vodka Sauce with seared scallops

I speak for myself and hopefully the dear departed Anna N, who had a quote from John Thorne in her signature for years: If you haven’t read everything Thorne wrote, with the possible exception of his book on home plumbing, you have cheated yourself.

To paraphrase your august self from a thread on garlic bread: Bottled sauce is for children. That said the Victoria stuff that Costco sells, which goes on sale for about half of Rao’s is not terrible after the kids doctor it up a bit when it’s their night to cook

Zabar’s was always the last stop on the way out of town when I would visit New York with my parents as a kid. Still go every time I go through New York. No place else like it