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      Pimientos del Padrón

      Ingredients
      1 lb. Padrón peppers (80-100 peppers)
      3-4 cups olive oil
      Salt, large grain rock, Kosher, sel de mer, etc.
      Clean the peppers by rinsing them lightly. Dry them completely so they won’t splatter when they hit the hot oil. Leave the stems attached.
      Place the olive oil in a large skillet suitable for deep frying, like a cast iron [...]

      Iceberg Lettuce & My Recipes & The Wedge Salad

      History captures most people’s interest; it does mine. But food history I find fascinating. I’ve been wanting to write about a favorite salad for awhile now because it’s so simple, and because of one chief ingredient. The salad is the wedge salad, and the ingredient is iceberg lettuce. The wedge salad [...]

      Recipe: Ratatouille

      I recently picked up Julia Child’s cookbook ‘Mastering The Art of French Cooking’ again after a very long time. Fond, fond memories poured forth from the stained pages. The spine has come loose; the book is worse for wear. I could replace it with a fresh copy, one of the recent editions, [...]

      Recipes from the Languedoc

      Fourth of July weekend is the ‘official-official’ start of summer for a lot of Americans. Memorial Day sneaks up and, if you live on the East Coast, always seems to be either still wet, cold or both. The fourth is far enough into the summer to actually be summer. So let the [...]

      Cucumbers

      There’s something about a good, fresh, ripe, right-from-the garden cucumber. Bright green, a sort of forest green, small prickly bumps like cucumber acne, firm to the touch if picked properly. When you slice into it with a sharp knife there’s a snap, and the unmistakable aroma that rises up quickly. The smell [...]