http://anopencupboard.com home is where the food is Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:19:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On a recent bright Saturday morning at the Ferry Plaza farmers' market, I was pleasantly surprised to find large bouquets of za'atar. Star Route Farms grows the herb and sells large bunches of it at the market. Za'atar is more commonly known as an herby spice mix spiked with sesame seeds. ... http://anopencupboard.com/2008/06/18/zaatar/ There's nothing so annoying as missing your train. Usually this means waiting for the next one, which in many US cities is no small feat. The schedule is erratic, the trains infrequent. You could wait twenty minutes for the next train. Twenty minutes too late for a meeting? Too bad. The ... http://anopencupboard.com/2008/06/16/commuter-train/ Photo by DJ Wallstrom from the Farmer Brown website I am a sucker for American Southern and Soul foods. Give me fried chicken with hot sauce any time, day or night, breakfast, lunch or dinner. Black eyed peas and rice, cornbread, collard greens with smoky ham hock. I love it ... http://anopencupboard.com/2008/06/12/farmer-brown/ Gevalt. My shoulders hurt, my back hurts. My triceps are no longer on speaking terms with me, and they're whispering mutiny to the biceps. Yesterday, I made my own dumplings out of hand-rolled dough without the use of a pasta machine. Now I know what it must have felt like ... http://anopencupboard.com/2008/06/09/jewish-ravioli-cheese-kreplach/ Steamed buns are as yummy, as yummy can be. Well now I've done it. For the duration of this post I'll be hearing Dick Van Dyke prattling on in the worst Cockney accent this side of the big pond. Have you ever gone out for dim sum, only to be utterly confused ... http://anopencupboard.com/2008/05/23/dim-summiny-dim-summiny-dim-dim-summee/ Today marks the 60th year of the existence of the State of Israel. Having lived there for twelve years, I must admit I kind of miss the place. Where else can you get freshly baked pita bread off an assembly line at the bakery section of the supermarket? Or falafel ... http://anopencupboard.com/2008/05/08/sixty/ ... downtown San Francisco modeled in stainless steel pots and pans. If you read the Ethicurean you probably figured that out. The metal model is an installation by artist Zhan Wang at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. The piece includes clever details such as forks and spoons for piers, ... http://anopencupboard.com/2008/05/07/what-is-it-its/ Just a bunch of pots and pans, or something else? Can you guess what this is? http://anopencupboard.com/2008/05/05/what-is-it-2/ A slice of cake for you, dear reader, in honor of an open cupboard's second birthday. Two years ago today I posted an ironic ode to the high cost of organic food in the form of a silly riff on a famous poem by Robert Frost. Nothing much has changed since ... http://anopencupboard.com/2008/04/28/two-years-old/ I have fond memories of eating matzah brei for breakfast of a Sunday morning during Passover. I'd wake up to the smell of browned butter and cinnamon, and wander into the kitchen. My dad preferred the scrambled style of the traditional dish. He'd break several sheets of matzah into large pieces ... http://anopencupboard.com/2008/04/25/matza-brei/