I improvised this sweet potato gnocchi gratin for a night in with Elizabeth and Catherine. Ingredients 2 tablespoons of butter 2 tablespoons of flour 2 cups of milk 1 teaspoon of herbes de Provence 1/4 teaspoon of pimentón (smoked Spanish paprika) 1 heaping tablespoon of white miso 1 half package of Neufchatel or cream cheese [...]

My friend Sophia IM’ed me the other night while I was at school. She asked me for some cooking advice based on the ingredients she had in her kitchen.  It turned into a game of IM Iron Chef or Stump the Cook from The Splendid Table.   Here is a log of our chat (edited [...]

“Herbivores,” the video that I made with my friend and ITP classmate Elizabeth Fuller last year has made it to the top 10 semifinals of the First Annual Food2 Summer Challenge. But we desperately need your votes to help us win the grand prize, a trip to the NYC food and wine festival. Please vote [...]

Normandy meets the Pondicherry of my post-post-colonial imagination in this improvised dish I made last night. Ingredients 2 tablespoons of butter 1 small onion, chopped 1 shallot, chopped 4 cloves of garlic, minced 2 inch piece of fresh ginger, minced 1 teaspoon of minced jalapeño 1 teaspoon of turmeric 1 pinch of saffron (optional, I [...]

Ingredients 1 pound of hake, filleted and cut into 4 inch chunks (or substitute cod, pollack or similar flaky white fish) 1 onion, thinly sliced 4 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced 1 roasted red bell pepper, sliced 1 handful of green olives 1/2 teaspoon of pimentón (Spanish smoked paprika) 1 cup of dry white wine [...]