Gilding the Lily since 2006
And because I’m completely ridiculous, I turned those beautiful pepper-crusted tuna steaks into tuna casserole-flavored ramen noodles. Flaked tuna and Asian greens (chonggak radish raab from the garden, scallions, and gai lan), peas, and enoki bechamel with @umiorganic noodles. Garnished with chonggak flowers. Anything can […]
Fresh rigatoni from @providorepdx smothered in Sunday gravy, meaty af thanks to plenty of @nicky.usa steak grind (trim from 35-day aged, grass-fed @creekstone_farms steaks). Homegrown tomatoes; tons of garlic, shallots, and red wine; fresh thyme and oregano from the garden. 🥩 🍝 🥩 🍝#meatconcierge #bolognese […]
Here’s a very simple and *fast!* ragù of @nicky.usa wild boar stew meat, pressure cooked with a few cloves of garlic, some minced carrot and a small onion, plus a pint of homegrown tomatoes that I put up last summer (plus Italian seasonings and S&P). […]
Gilding the lily + + Here’s a big, lovely bowl of miso ramen with @hudsonvalleyfoiegras foie gras, sproingy @umiorganic noodles, kikurage (wood ear) mushrooms, butter corn, and a gorgeous backyard egg. Nori, toasted sesame, and scallions to garnish. The broth is dashi and homemade […]
Africans totally eat ramen. Think about it: Maggi is ubiquitous throughout the continent and Asia. And the flavors of Nigerian peppersoup make perfect sense slickered all over noodles. FURTHERMORE, venison is a perfect choice for peppersoup, unless you can sustainably source your bushmeat. When I […]
Another delicious bowl in my Year of Ramen™️: a Middle Eastern spin on tantanmen. Instead of a regular sesame-chile broth, I made a garlicky beef broth with toasted sesame purée and preserved lemon, topped with a ragu of ground Anderson Ranches lamb seasoned with lots […]
This is such a deceptively simple dish to make, provided you have a well-supplied larder. For the ragu, I browned ground Nicky Farms wild boar (pork would work, obviously) with a little bit of sesame oil, a few cloves of minced garlic, finely diced zha […]
You guys, I made German yakisoba. ??? Let me back up: I started with Nicky Farms’ incredible wild boar/pork caraway-dill sausage, roasted in a quickie choucroute garnis with Savoy cabbage and the juice/garlic/spices from my homemade sour dill pickles, fried onions and horseradish from my […]
It’s so delightfully crummy out so I made budae jigae for myself using *nice* ingredients like @umiorganic noodles, @olympiaprovisions hot dogs, Ota tofu, homemade kimchi and heirloom beans. The dashi is instant, but it’s still some fancy high-end stuff from Japan. The SPAM… is just […]