Gilding the Lily since 2006
View this post on Instagram I had a nice, big hunk of @nueskes ham (picked up for a ✨song✨ at a @nicky.usa fire sale, leftover from Easter dinner), so I diced it up and tossed it in hot bacon fat with some cottage cheese dumplings …
View this post on Instagram How did I turn one measly pound of Nicky Farms ground bison into fourteen large meatballs? By cutting the meat by half with okara from Ota Tofu! After they extract all the soy milk, the pressed-out soy beans form a …
View this post on Instagram Grilled cheese and broccoli with tomato soup: a classic with a tiny twist. Ever since reading @tylerkord’s pivotal “A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches” I’ve begun to see broccoli in an entirely new light. 🥦 🥪 🧀 🥫 This little …
View this post on Instagram Happy Spring Festival, friends! In honor of Year of the Pig I made a boar pörkölt (kind of like goulash) with hand-cut dumplings, fortified with Uyghur flavors. That means mixing Chinese Muslim and Eastern European ingredients — both are influenced …
View this post on Instagram Made a real quick cake tonight, just for shits & gigs. It’s a pretty simple riff on a Mexican chocolate-type torte, just chocolate, cinnamon, ancho chile, and vanilla, with slivered almonds and sesame seeds for textural contrast. Super basic, no …
With tons of extra snips of things. View this post on Instagram I am finally back in my own kitchen, and after half a week of eating nothing but dumplings, noodles, and Japanese junk food, all I want to eat is vegetables. Luckily, I had …
This one made the top post on r/foodporn! View this post on Instagram Korean goluptsy: the mashup you never knew you needed. Grass-fed @creekstone_farms beef (dry-aged and ground by @nicky.usa) browned with garlic chives, ginger, onions and garlic, mixed with chopped kimchi and …
View this post on Instagram #WildAboutGame pregaming at home with my spin on the ever-popular butternut squash risotto: pumpkin congee cooked in chicken-corn cob stock, with five spice water buffalo sausage from @nicky.usa (get it? instead of lap cheong), woodear mushroom, pepitas, fried elephant garlic …
Further adventures in “rice is totally breakfast:” ginger-scallion congee cooked in good homemade chicken broth with Vietnamese ham, poached backyard egg and bok choy, topped with shaved salt-cured duck egg, fried shallots, chile oil and cilantro. It’s somehow both calming and stimulating, and so satisfying. …