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weinoo

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  1. My guess is that the thermostat probe heats up pretty quickly, as opposed to the oven interior itself. Similar to regular sized ovens; I always preheat the small oven for a good ten minutes, the large oven for 30.
  2. weinoo

    Cabbage

    You mean the article I linked to here..
  3. This is the one I used last night... It's most likely the 34cm paella. Which is certainly not too small for feeding 2 people. As a matter of fact, we'll have the leftovers steam re-heated, for lunch. I've also used two larger sizes to make paella for gusts, with no problems. Either by attending the pan and/or by using it over 2 burners. It's called understanding your stove and pans.
  4. I find it no problem at all.
  5. weinoo

    Cabbage

    My bubbe was making chou farci way before it became the darling of the French bistro. Along with being a tyrant, she just called it stuffed cabbage.
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    Dinner 2024

    It looks good enough to eat. Here's how jerk chicken is cooked by one of my favorite, delicious jerks... Many barbecues... Much smoke... Delicious chicken and pork... What do kids know, anyway?!
  7. I've tried two of the products (wild mushroom ravioli and 4 (or 5) cheese tortellini), and I can't see these products becoming part of my larder. Last night I made the tortellini, and the first thing Sig Eater said after her first bite was: "these are mushy." I have to agree with her. Indistinct fillings.
  8. weinoo

    Cabbage

    Hey, Kim Severson and the NY Times are ON IT! The Coolest Menu Item With no props to Marcella, of course.
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    Breakfast 2024

    This morning... Somewhere in between a Spanish tortilla and an Italian frittata. Torttata? Frittilla?
  10. I'm sure you've seen Kenji's Serious Eats post about his allegedly supernal Bolognese. (I wonder if the harder and chewier bits were perhaps bits of bone that got ground along with the meat Or hoof. Or ear.). I have this book.. Purchased in Bologna. I know it can be translated, just not by me, right now. Appears there is plenty of pork in the ragu, however.
  11. Yet you write you gave up on that one, no? I use a small enameled steel paella only when I'm making a small amount of paella for the two of us. But I use a classic paella otherwise... Of which I have 2 (or 3) sizes.
  12. For paella, why not use a paella…from Spain?
  13. I think the farmers' markets are the one true way to make sure we're getting "heirloom" jalapeños; there is a vendor at Union Square every year who has some of the real deal chili peppers. But, as with everything else we want or expect to be "like it used to be," they're very seasonal. So, buying peppers in the middle of the winter may well be a crapshoot.
  14. Wait! What?! No Robert Simonson's (who I was fortunate enough to make Martini's for over the course of a rather long Martini party): The Encyclopedia of Cocktails (eG-friendly Amazon.com link)?!?! After all, who can forget his 2019 classic: The Martini Cocktail: A Meditation on the World's Greatest Drink, with Recipes (eG-friendly Amazon.com link)
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    Dinner 2024

    Fun week of dining, mostly out, mostly by myself as Significant Eater was out of town. Monday, I went to Le French Diner, a place we'd recently tried to get into, but with a long wait we walked away. Alone, I was able to grab a seat. (For those who may know, this was a place once called Zucco: Le Frech Diner, but Zucco sadly passed away, and when it finally reopened it was merely Le French Diner, but it's still darn good). Started with Socca, oily and salty, as it should be. The picture on their IG of the duck dish is so much better than mine... Duck breast with chicories and grapes. This was one of the most properly cooked (huge) duck breasts I've had in a long time: On Tuesday night, I met a friend at the newly opened DEMO, named after the nearby square, Father Demo Square. Focaccia with olives and cherry tomatoes served with cultured butter and EVOO. Lengua tonnata. Tortilla, with saffron aioli, trout roe and harissa chips. Add a fantastic wine list and a lovely place for dinner. Thursday night, I returned solo to Foul Witch, and again had a nice meal. It included these humongous day boat scallops, which were incredible. Served with rhubarb, mandarinquat and on a bed of freekah. Then I had a pasta... Oxtail fazzoletti, with lovage and horseradish. I was happily full, and happy I didn't order another course! Significant Eater returned home yesterday, so I cooked... Mise en place for a stir fry. Cantonese-style pork with mixed vegetables.
  16. I don't think it's that hard...I walked away. I have never had it retinned, but it has been replaced by a similarly sized one from Falk.
  17. They're certainly right on the $50... https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/ar-BB1j92c9
  18. One day (and to quote Don Corleone: "and that day may never come") I'll take a picture of one of my gorgeous Mauviel tin-lined copper pans (also purchased from E. DeHellerin, but schlepped back in my luggage) ) that I mistakenly used to pop popcorn. I walked away from the pan while I was heating it up with oil and those first couple of kernels, and by the time I got back, the tin had started to melt. I've since moved to a nice, cheap 30-year old Macy's pan for popping corn. I've always found my other tin lined pans to be practically nonstick, just by using them properly.
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    Fish Sauce

    And on to the good stuff... https://www.gustiamo.com/colatura-anchovy-sauce-from-cetara-by-nettuno/#&gid=1&pid=1
  20. Out of a wise man’s mouth… https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3-xWSlrJVc/?igsh=MXZ1MnF3aGg4NHJlMg==
  21. weinoo

    Breakfast 2024

    Baked up another big batch of granola this morning, sorta following EMP's recipe. Oats, almonds, pistachios, pepitas, raisins, sour cherries, maple syrup, brown sugar, olive oil, butter, vanilla, and salt.
  22. Get to L'Industrie. Scarr's on Orchard St. As for Joe's pizza, I actually prefer the original Joe's, on Carmine and Bleecker, as opposed to the new outpost on 14th, but that's just me. Emmy Squared will be Detroit-style. There's a lot of Neapolitan, as well as neo-Neapolitan. From UPN, to Don Antonio, to a branch of a pizzeria in Naples, L’antica Pizzeria da Michele.
  23. weinoo

    Dinner 2024

    Chicken thighs cacciatore. Braised baby artichokes and celery.
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