Michael Ruhlman's Blog, page 79

Pickled Green Tomato Recipe

I get green tomato pickles on my mind every time I walk past the tomatoes on the vine in my backyard these chilly days. I've been reading about pickles, too.  One of the best books I've found is Linda Ziedrich's The Joy of Pickling.  It's not only thorough, it's also very well written (I was [...]

Had Something To Say

As I've said before, the best things happen when you get carried away.  Two people who share this view are Diane Cu and Todd Porter, photographers and filmakers, aka whiteonricecouple.  Two weeks ago, at the BlogHer food conference in San Farancisco, they asked to film me talking, I'm still not sure why.  Diane said she [...]

Roasted Peanuts:Asian Peanut Sauce Recipes

I first heard of  Robert Danhi from my friend Michael Pardus, who teaches Asian cuisines at the Culinary Institute of America, who said I should check out his book Southeast Asian Flavors: Adventures in Cooking the Foods of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia & Singapore. Dahni, a long time chef currently in southern California, had self-published it, [...]

What I Didn't Know About Celiac(plus Glutenfreegirl's Pizza Dough Recipe)

The blog world knows Carol Blymire for her cooking her way through The French Laundry Cookbook (how I became acquainted with her).  She's now documenting her adventures in avant-garde home cooking in her new blog, Alinea at Home.  By day, she's a communications and public policy consultant in D.C.  Day and night, she lives with [...]

What I Didn't Know About Celiac(plus Glutenfreegirl's Pizza Dough Recipe!)

The blog world knows Carol Blymire for her cooking her way through The French Laundry Cookbook (how I became acquainted with her).  She's now documenting her adventures in avant-garde home cooking in her new blog, Alinea at Home.  By day, she's a communications and public policy consultant in D.C.  Day and night, she lives with [...]

CSA Week 20 — The Final Delivery

So this is it, a gloomy fall day, and smallish haul (summer's bounty fading, sigh), with a lot of green plum tomatoes, not even very good green plum tomatoes.  Anyone have a good pickling recipe for them!? Think I may try a curry flavored pickle.  Would fry them but have been having too much fun [...]

CSA Week 20 — The Final Delvery

So this is it, a gloomy fall day, and smallish haul (summer's bounty fading, sigh), with a lot of green plum tomatoes, not even very good green plum tomatoes.  Anyone have a good pickling recipe for them!? Think I may try a curry flavored pickle.  Would fry them but have been having too much fun [...]

Chipotle-Corn Ciabatta

Do we need a recipe for Chipotle-Corn Ciabatta?  I'm in the process of developing bread recipes, all kinds, working with sourdough, whole grain, the powerfully flavored rye, but I began with some basic flavored breads. This is one of my favorites because I am crazy for chipotles, and am devoted to corn, which goes great [...]

Home-Cured Bacon

Photos by Donna Ruhlman


I demoed home-cured bacon at the Blogher 2010 after party Saturday night, with the help of the excellent students of the California Culinary Academy (thanks for the perfect set-up, chef-students!).  I couldn't do it start to finish, of course.  You need to give the belly a dry rub [...]

Home-Cured Bacon

I demoed home-cured bacon at the Blogher 2010 after party Saturday night, with the help of the excellent students of the California Culinary Academy (thanks for the perfect set-up, chef-students!).  I couldn't do it start to finish, of course.  You need to give the belly a dry rub for a week.  Then you need to [...]