Month: February 2021

Lee How Fook – Chicken and Mushroom Hot Pot with Baby Bok Choy

Lee How Fook – Chicken and Mushroom Hot Pot with Baby Bok Choy

My family has been eating at the same Chinese restaurant – Lee How Fook – going on 40 years. Located on the edge of Philadelphia’s Chinatown, generations of the same family have cooked for and served us, just as generations within my family have dined 

Labneh to Dip

Labneh to Dip

Every weekday it’s the same. I go to work and eat breakfast while I’m getting organized for the day. My meal is unchanged; varying only a few times over the course of my career. It almost always starts with a banana. Years ago, that was 

Chicken Puttanesca

Chicken Puttanesca

About a dozen years ago I had the wonderful opportunity to go to Italy with my family. We spent two incredible weeks there, one with my parents and brothers’ families at a rental in Umbria, the other, just my wife, kids, and I, driving throughout 

The January Garden – Leek and Mushroom Tart with Brie

The January Garden – Leek and Mushroom Tart with Brie

January is a bleak month in the garden. There is little growth, and so by leaps and bounds the most exciting activities are perusing catalogues to order seeds for the coming year and planting cabbage, kale, and leek seeds under lights in the basement to