Ever since I first started traveling internationally, I have loved grocery shopping abroad. Walking the aisles and perusing all of the unfamiliar products taps into a unique form of culinary wanderlust for me. More so than any single restaurant, a foreign grocery store puts the …
What’s better on a Sunday morning than a collection of interesting breakfast recipes? (Aside, of course, from the dishes themselves.) Breakfast, and perhaps particularly brunch, are interesting meals to work with. When it comes to lunch and dinner, the concepts are essentially boundless. Anything that …
Fancy drinks based on the books that I love may be slightly off brand for The Buslife Kitchen, but what can you do? When inspiration takes you, you have to follow it. So, apologies to those readers who are only here for the woodsy gourmet stuff, right now I am really enjoying putting together these literary cocktails.
Continue reading Astrophage – A “Project Hail Mary” Literary Cocktail
For the next entry in my literary cocktail series, I decided to go with a story that has been dominating conversation recently: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. If you haven’t seen the HBO series yet, it is a delight, as well as a very …
To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure how much introduction these pancakes need. Most of it is right there in the title. Banana pancakes are a wonderful thing, but I can tell you from experience that they’re about a hundred times better when you add …
Alright, one holiday feast is in the rearview, now it’s time to start thinking about that next one. Here are a few of my recent recipes that will excellent choices for the opening courses of your next holiday feast. On this list you’ll find a handful of intriguing appetizers, a couple of superb salads, and what may well be the best chowder recipe out there. Continue reading Holiday Feast First Courses
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins has long been my favorite book, which means it is also the perfect first entry in what will be a series of literary cocktail recipes. Still Life is a reality-bending love story of princesses, outlaws, pyramids, and dynamite, …
In honor of attending my first NFL game a few weeks back, here’s a list of my (relatively) recent recipes that make perfect game day snacks. There’s a wide variety here, and while you will find that many of them are familiar, each comes with …
If you thought rice was the only starchy side for your Japanese-inspired proteins, well, there’s a new show in town — and boy is it good. Tangy, creamy mash is maybe the best, most comforting side dish to serve with a hearty piece of steak or chicken, and when you add in the fragrant bite of wasabi, it also becomes a perfect counterpoint to the meat’s richness. Topped off with a Japanese-inspired gravy redolent of scallions, garlic, and ginger, and you have a meal with real layers of complex flavor. I won’t waste too many words trying to convince you, because if you’ve read this far, I can’t imagine there are still any doubts in your mind — this recipe is going straight onto the shopping list.
Continue reading Wasabi Mashed Potatoes and Scallion-Ginger Gravy
This cocktail has been brewing in my mind for a long time. I absolutely love a classic Painkiller — you can find a recipe for that in The Buslife Kitchen Vol. 2 — and it is really the sprinkling of nutmeg that makes the drink. …