Share |

Content about Cucumber

Don't Waste Time: How to Make Quick Pickles July 13, 2010 Two pickle recipes that take less than a day to make You know how you see scallops at the fish market and think to yourself, I could sauté those with?...When I’m at the farmers’ market, I see bushels and baskets of potential pickles... - David Chang, Momofuku It's been over three years, and yet I can still vividly remember an appetizer I ate at Momofuku Ssäm Bar. In a meal filled with gloriously fatty meat laced with spice, this small plate of cucumber and... Read the Full Article	Oi-Sobagi: Cucumber Kimchi and the Purpose of Banchan September 18, 2009 Try this awesome Korean appetizer. I began to wonder whether the banchan were going to overwhelm the table. We had placed the little Korean side dishes on the smallest plates I owned, but the shear number of them added up. It was our own fault. When Blake and I decided to do a Korean Barbecue feast last weekend we figured it was time to lavish attention on banchan, giving them the attention and care usually just reserved for the main course. Along the way we made... Read the Full Article	Part Two of My Cucumber Sandwich Revenge: Tea Time August 21, 2009 How to create the perfect cucumber sandwich. I feel like I finally understand the cucumber sandwich. After weeks of thinking about it, and trying to recreate the most authentic version I could muster, it finally sunk in. The taste isn't rich, indulgent, spicy, acidic, comforting, salty, or fatty. It's cool, calm, and collected. The strongest reaction I had towards one was a contented sigh, a sort of momentary delight. So why was I breaking a sweat trying to make one? I had... Read the Full Article	Part One of My Cucumber Sandwich Revenge: Pain de Mie August 18, 2009 Starting with the perfect loaf of bread. (Check out Part Two of My Cucumber Sandwich Revenge for the sandwich recipe) I went to see a man about a loaf pan. All the traditional outlets had failed (Crate and Barrel, Sur La Table, Williams-Sonoma and four restaurant supply stores) and I was starting to get desperate. See, I needed a very peculiar kind of loaf pan, one that would help me create the mysterious loaf, pain de mie, which would hopefully provide the base for the perfect... Read the Full Article
The Wait of Dill Pickles September 10, 2008 How to make pickles at home without filling your place with the smell of pickles. But all I did was worry. Why was there no garlic in the dill pickles? Every other jar of dill pickles I had bought contained garlic. And why did the pickling spice smell so sweet? Dill pickles weren't sweet. I worried that Ruhlman's recipe was too refined. I wanted simple dill pickles. I'd have to look elsewhere. I pulled out Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking and found... Read the Full Article	English Cucumber Sandwiches February 4, 2006 "Why cucumber sandwiches? Why such reckless extravagance in one so young?" Read the Full Article