by Jenise » Thu Jun 18, 2020 12:18 pm
Two recipes that I loved so much I posted them here: Tennessee Shrimp and Grits, and Seared Scallops on noodles with a fantastic vegan sauce based on canned white beans from Barbara Lynch's No. 9 Park, a restaurant I'm sure you'd be familiar with. Easy, fast, and quite elegant. Another I think I posted: halibut (or any firm white fish) coated with a mixture of grated potatoes bound with an egg (latke-like), then pan fried, and served on a liquidy puddle of sugar snap pea puree.
The Shrimp and Grits came from Leite's Culinaria, whose free e-newsletter I signed up for. Virtually every day, a recipe shows up: when I see something I like, I print it and put it in a folder for another day's consideration. There's a scannable data base there, too. I also get frequent e-newsletters from Food & Wine featuring recipe groups with titles like 25 New Ways to Grill Chicken. I've also been inspired occasionally by Christopher Kimball's Milk Street. Their whole gambit it to get you to sign up for or buy the whole newsletter--I haven't, but the free teaser recipe in each is pretty often intriguing. A lot of the recipes lean toward Asian and East Asian, lots of spice, and vegetarian. I've got cauliflower on my shopping list to do a crispy (!), spicy oven roasted version they recently shared. Between those three sources, I have a constant stream of new ideas showing up on my desk, and I recommend them all.
My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov
