#food

13 items tagged food.

• Cooking — Books about how cooking works.
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat — Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
• Modernist Cuisine — The Art and Science of Cooking
• Food Hacking
• Kitchen — I love food. Recipes and notes from my own kitchen, with a few favourites from family and friends.
• Spinach Caesar — My favourite salad. Fresh-plucked spinach with a dressing of mustard powder, egg yolk, anchovies, red wine vinegar, olive oil, salt, lemon and sesame, with croutons, blue cheese and bacon on top if you like. It's basically absurd.
• Nasi Goreng — Indonesian fried rice. I ate this constantly on Gili Air, coming in off the reef.
• The World's Best Steak — A thick cut, dry and well salted, very high heat, butter at the end, and a long rest.
• Peaches, Ricotta and Lemon Zest on Toast — The one that almost made me cry.
• Chili — The long-simmer version, served with cheddar and sour cream.
• Miso-Glazed Salmon — Salmon holds up beautifully against a sweet-salty miso glaze. Couldn't be easier.
• Tofu Ginger — Tofu simmered in chicken broth with ginger, peanut butter and sesame, with broccoli, cucumber and mandarins.
• Pineapple Upside-Down Cake — My favourite birthday cake, baked from scratch: caramelly sweet and toasty warm. This is my dad's version, as he sent it.