The winter issue is off to the printer Monday. We ended up having to cut a few stories down to fit, and this recipe was one that didn’t make that cut. That doesn’t mean we don’t love it. So, just in time for the holidays, start making your preserved lemons now to give as host [...]
Waking up to a soft, drizzling rain yesterday was an invitation to bake. Like most of you, I have been avoiding my oven and any kind of real cooking at all. Instead, we subsist on the simplest of summer meals: tomato sandwiches, bowls of berries topped with Greek yogurt, slices of intensely ripe Tuscan melon, and [...]
These plums were calling to me last Saturday at the Jackson Hole Farmers Market on the Town Square. Arriving promptly at 8 a.m., I made a beeline for Sloan Andrew’s stand, and my favorite selection of stone fruit in the Valley. As I carefully chose a dozen or so fragrant plums, I couldn’t help but [...]
“I can’t believe you haven’t blogged this yet”, says young Nick, as he downs another Nutter Butter Smoothie and dashes outside to play soccer. The Nutter Butter Smoothie has become permanently entrenched in our busy schedules. It wears many hats: liquid breakfast, after-school snack, post-workout electrolyte replenisher. Dressed up with a straw, you could even [...]
Twenty-one pounds of mozzarella curd, 15 bottles of wine, 13 women, 4 pounds of pizza dough, dozens of toppings, and one wood-fired pizza oven named Maxey. It’s a mozzarella-making party. Karen and I thought it would be fun to have a few friends over to her kitchen studio (where Maxey lives) and make some mozzarella [...]
Something magical happens to the humble avocado when it is smashed together with a stick of butter, a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, minced garlic and sea salt. Avocado Butter is what happens. Over spring break, I conjured up my mother’s recipe for Avocado Butter when faced with an unlikely problem: too much lobster. It was the last week [...]
I had never heard of pipián rojo, the luxuriously creamy pumpkin seed sauce of central Mexico, until I took a class in San Miguel de Allende. Made creamy with nuts and seeds, and spicy with guajillo chiles, pipián rojo with chicken is also one of the healthiest and most satisfying dishes I learned in cooking [...]
The true cuisine of Mexico differs from region to region, with a dizzying variety of dishes that barely resemble our American-Mexican food. In the mountains of central Mexico, where I attended cooking school, I learned that most dishes begin with dried chiles, whereas fresh chiles are more typical of the coastal foods. Cooking with dried [...]
By the time March rolls around, we are all ready for a change of scenery. And for a place in which you can leave the house without your Uggs, down puffy and fleece jacket. The mass exodus from Jackson Hole is about to begin. If your Spring Break is taking you South, here is a [...]
Sunday was such a perfect day for multisporting. Around here, multisporting means three or more sports are pursued in one day. This takes organization, a bag full of clothes and gear and the right food. It was fortuitous that I had made a big batch of Bacon Sushi Rice Bars and Balls first thing Saturday morning. The debut of [...]
The only thing I love more than the holidays is when the holidays are over. January is me-time for locals, who are suddenly free of out of town guests and holiday obligations. As the throngs of tourists dissipate, we take back the tram line at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and waltz into our favorite [...]
There are 10 days until Christmas, and I am no more ready now than I ever am. I like to spend several weeks just thinking about Christmas…what cookies I’ll bake, the menu for Christmas Eve dinner, and how will I have time to ski…but the execution of Christmas preparation comes later. And typically at the [...]
