Category Archives: Cooking

Here you’ll find everything about cooking that isn’t actually a recipe. Tips, techniques, gripes, whatever.

Recipe Forensics

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Burnt My Fingers

Have you ever wanted to figure out the recipe for a dish that isn’t available to you any more? Maybe it’s from a restaurant that went out of business, or stopped offering the item. Maybe you’ve moved away. Or maybe … Continue reading →

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Cooking in somebody else’s kitchen, Part 2

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Burnt My Fingers

As long as it is on or near a lake or stream, an upstate NY vacation home is called a “camp”. There’s usually some concession to rusticity without really roughing it. In the case of my wife’s camp, it is … Continue reading →

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Cooking in somebody else’s kitchen, Part 1

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Burnt My Fingers

The past month I’ve been cooking in two unfamiliar kitchens, the first being the San Francisco bachelor/bachelorette pad shared by several friends of my daughter and the second the “camp” belonging to my wife in the Adirondacks. In San Francisco, … Continue reading →

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Our salami satisfies everybody (the red sauce topic)

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Burnt My Fingers

I have been trying ever since I arrived in Upstate New York to understand the appeal of the “red sauce place”. This is a neighborhood restaurant that serves a limited menu of Italian-American staples, and many people are passionate about … Continue reading →

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U-Pick Tomato Day at Mariquita Farm

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Burnt My Fingers

Yesterday I drove from San Francisco to Hollister for the last Tomato U-Pick of the season at Mariquita Farm. It’s run by a couple who decided they’d rather sell direct from the fields than pay rent at the Ferry Plaza … Continue reading →

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Recipe: My Brisket Recipe, Revisited

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Burnt My Fingers

After the writeup on Texas barbecue, several folks asked if I would repost my brisket recipe as text, not an image, for easier reading. Here you go. I’ve added a few thoughts on technique, in italics. This recipe came to … Continue reading →

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