The day before Memorial Day, I heard about an awe-inspiring creation: the butter burger. The butter burger? Butter? In a burger? Need I say more?
Well, yes. Probably I do. Because the butter burger needs some ’splainin. In my tipster’s version, and the version I replicated at the BBQ I went to Monday, you simply mix [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Butter Burger. Believe it.
Posted in Home Cooking, Recipe, Tips, tagged burger, butter, grilling on May 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The glory begins… with mushrooms en papillote.
Posted in Home Cooking, Quick, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged glory, mushrooms on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ok, maybe not that glorious, but I’ll take what I can get. Food Junta has just secured our first honor for the narrative recipe I submitted to a contest on Marx Foods, a gourmet ingredient purveyor. While I didn’t win the contest (or the two pounds of fresh morels that were first prize), I was [...]
Ko my!
Posted in Raves, Restaurant Reviews on May 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Food Junta got the much-talked-about, much-lusted-after pleasure of eating at Momofuku Ko on Monday night, thanks to our very own Brandon, whose clicking dexterity secured us a four-person reservation at 6 pm. Go Brandon! For those of you who don’t know the trials and tribulations involved in getting a reservation at Ko, you can read [...]
Berkeley: Meyer Lemons Galore! (And homemade mayonnaise)
Posted in Dessert, Home Cooking, Quick, Raves, Recipe, Tips, tagged aioli, curd, mayonnaise, meyer lemons on May 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After Portland, I went home to Berkeley, food paradise, and also paradise of the elusive citrus known as the Meyer lemon. I don’t know how well known meyer lemons are on the east coast, but on the west coast, they are ubiquitous, and I mean ubiquitous in the best way. Meyers are rounder than your [...]
Food Junta Hits the Road: Portland
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Raves, Recipe, Tips, Vegetarian, tagged beets, goat cheese, greens, lentils, Portland on May 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, before going home, I actually made a weekend stopover in Portland, Oregon, both to visit a friend and to check out the restaurant/farm/local food scene I have been hearing so much about for the last couple of years. The city — filled with microbreweries and food co-ops — did not disappoint, and the farmers’ [...]
About them beans…
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Vegetarian, tagged green beans on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I promised yesterday that I would post about the green beans in the picture below. So here it is:
This is a technique that works with pretty much any green vegetable, but is especially good with green beans and their cousins and any kind of leafy green: Boil some water, enough to add the veggie to [...]
Eggs de la Vera
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Raves, tagged eggs, pimenton on May 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Any scruffy young bachelor who can’t make scrambled eggs deserves a few good slaps about the head with a rubber spatula. They don’t have to be GOOD scrambled eggs, but everyone should be able to throw beaten eggs into a pan with a little hot fat and stir them until they’re cooked through. Scrambled eggs [...]
An aioli (mayonnaise) delay
Posted in Philosophy on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Apologies, apologies, readers. I fully intended to post about how to make mayonnaise today, to follow up Phil’s post from yesterday. Unfortunately, I’m at home in Berkeley, and our family’s computer is almost 10 years old, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to upload the photos. And I have [...]
Dispatch from the Junta Idiot — Mayonnaise
Posted in Home Cooking, tagged chile, ironic gourmet, mayonnaise, unsung heroes on May 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Dear Juntanistas,
The Junta Idiot has been on a roll lately.
1) Monday: Mosaic of Foie Gras and Black Angus Beef Cheek, Satur Farms Beets, Wagyu Carpaccio, Peppercress, HORSERADISH
2) Tuesday: Duo of Abalone: Slow Baked with Paprika, Cauliflower Purée, Tempura with Early Mesclun, Ibérico Ham, HORSERADISH
3) Wednesday: Poached Atlantic Halibut with Saffron-Mussel Velouté, Fava Bean Fricassée, Sweet [...]
Soup with, uh, stuff…
Posted in Cheap, Home Cooking, Quick, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged soup on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
I raved a little while ago about how much I like making soup, and I included a recipe for a simple artichoke soup.
This soup is still simple, but it comes from the opposite end of the spectrum. Basically it’s just a really hearty soup made from what I happened to have lying around the house. [...]
Carbonara, of a sort
Posted in Home Cooking, Recipe, tagged bacon, cheese, eggs, pasta, sage, squash, tomato on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
This is an original Food Junta recipe, with no inspiration from anywhere other than my own imagination. Carbonara is typically pasta — usually spaghetti — with eggs, cheese, pork, and black pepper. You add the raw eggs directly to the pasta after it’s done cooking, and the heat of the pasta cooks the egg and [...]
A Challenge I’d Like to See on Top Chef
Posted in Links on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
The fourth annual D’Artagnan Duckathon, which took place at Chelsea Market (in nyc) yesterday, is covered in a great slideshow by Gourmet. I particularly like the challenge that involves matching a table full of testicles to the animals that they came from (slides 7 and 8). I bet if Nikki had to do that challenge, [...]
Ramps!
Posted in Home Cooking, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged local, pasta, ramps, seasonal on May 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
You really know it’s spring in New York when you see the foodies elbowing one another at the farmer’s markets to grab up bunches of that elusive and highly seasonal harbinger of spring - ramps.
Ramps are a member of the allium family (onion, garlic, etc.) and are also known as wild leeks. How are [...]
