Observations | skinny girls & mayonnaise

The Pressure’s On

12 Nov 2013 21 Comments

by scolgin in Humor, Observations Tags: blood pressure, cooking, exercise, food, humor, jogging, margaritas, Mark Bittman, nutrition, Vegan Before Six

After three months reducing my salt, I went triumphantly back to the doctor to check my blood pressure, sure that my elimination of kim chee, olives and anchovies and my new snacking regiment of walnuts would’ve done the trick. I hoped my blood pressure wouldn’t now be too low!

“Still the same,” she said. “I guess you’re not that sensitive to salt.”

The Omron 10 Series

How could this be? And then she broke the bad news: She wanted to try putting me on a low dose of blood pressure-reducing medicine. More

Trotter

08 Nov 2013 5 Comments

by scolgin in Observations, Starlets, Yoga Students & Quinoa (stories) Tags: Charlie Trotter, chicago, cooking, Dar Maghreb, food, Henry David Thoreau, Mario Batali, morels, Pierre Dupart, Rene Redzepi

I was in the kitchen making breakfast for the kids when my wife came in with an alarmed look on her face.

“Charlie Trotter died.”

The name stalled in my head, it took me a moment to process the news. And then I was hit with a wave of shock: Charlie Trotter, the boyish Chicago chef whose smiling face grinned out at me from three or four cookbooks in my collection. More

Credit Where Credit Is Due

15 Oct 2013 2 Comments

by scolgin in Observations, Pork Tags: Attempts in Domesticity, Doves Today, Erica's Recipes, Frank's Red Hot, Japanese cooking, Jim Lahey, lobster roll, Old Bay, Pork, Taste of Japan

I appreciate it when people tell me they’ve made something I featured on the blog and enjoyed it. (Likewise, I’m mortified when people making something and it doesn’t turn out well … which I think has only happened once when a friend tried to make my bagna cauda.)

The food blog world is a unique universe. I subscribe to a variety of food blogs which I enjoy reading, and every so often read a recipe that I know I will have to try myself. And I thought it only fair to share a few of my favorites.