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Stay at Stove Dad
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Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kitchen: A Site for Working Fathers Who Cook for Their Families
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A Visit to the Brooklyn Grange

It’s a slightly slow time at work, and I took the opportunity to accompany Nina on a school trip this morning. Her class visited the Brooklyn Grange, the world’s largest commercial rooftop farm, whic...

1 day ago

Memorial Day Surprise: Limes in my Dhal

Santa Maria's company, ParentEarth.com, makes videos about food and families, and this past weekend we traveled to her alma mater to give a talk during reunion weekend. It was called “7 Secrets ...

3 days ago

Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Wraps—Inspired by Sargento

For the most part, I keep this blog clean and free of advertising. My focus is on feeding my family and helping, I hope, you feed yours. I don’t want that message getting shouted down by flashing ban...

24 may 12

Pumpkin Custard Recipe Good for a Weeknight or a Dinner Party

As I mentioned earlier this week, I’ve been on a lucky, dinner-party streak. For a recent gathering of friends at my house, I had the good fortune of being solicited by McCormick Gourmet. They’re doi...

23 may 12

A Sauce for the Apple and Sage Pork Roast!

As much as I feel like I never get to see my friends lately, it seems like I’ve fallen into a lucky groove of dinner parties. Two weeks ago, I an old friend invited Santa Maria and me to a one, and w...

21 may 12

Make Ahead Guide: How to Make French Fries

When my sister came over for dinner the two weeks ago, she said she felt like she had fallen into a rut, and that she wasn’t cooking as many things as she used to cook. She said an old favorite of he...

18 may 12

Semi-Wordless Wednesday: The Futurist Cookbook

Life caught up with me this week, and I haven't had time to write a new post. Instead, I've found a clever essay on “The Futurist Cookbook"—F.T. Marinetti’s 1932 treatise on over-think...

16 may 12

Make Ahead: Spicy Shrimp and Mint Pasta

Not to get off topic, but I was very moved recently by two events: the death of Adam (MCA) Yauch, of the Beastie Boys, and the news that Warren Buffet, the famed investor, has prostate cancer. It sud...

13 may 12

Just Desserts: Ricotta and Honey

The picture, above, was inspired by one of the most delicious desserts I’ve ever had. Someday—perhaps on a day when I haven’t risen at 6:00 a.m., run, showered, made lunches, made breakfast, eaten br...

11 may 12

The Joys of Time-Saving Pesto

I started this blog as a way to write about food in a liberating forum (on the web, a mistake can be fixed very easily, whereas a mistake made while at my print job is a bit more problematic). I cont...

10 may 12

Wordless Wednesday: A Better Mousetrap

09 may 12

Lazy Burgers and Good Times

My sister came over for dinner on Friday for a lazy but beloved meal—hot dogs, baked “French fries,” and a Romaine salad. I’ve rued the fact that kids’ sports, birthday parties, dance lessons, and th...

07 may 12

Polenta! Polenta! Polenta!

I have a new love in the kitchen, and its name is polenta. For years, I’ve seen it on restaurant menus and heard it talked about from everyone from foodies to my own mother (who, when she would taste...

04 may 12

Wordless Wednesday: Why Boil Water?

02 may 12

Make Cooking a Habit—It’ll Make Life Easier

This afternoon, I came back from helping my mother do a spring cleaning of her house, and I got to work in my own kitchen. I like to roll into the week knowing what I’m going to cook for dinner (and,...

30 apr 12

Super Speedy Spinach-Sausage Pasta with Truffles

The more my children age, the more I realize that we are in a race against time. Soon, they will be teenagers, then young adults, then, perhaps, parents themselves, and I’ll be in once place and one ...

27 apr 12

Speedy Weeknight Dinner: Salmon Broccoli Fried Rice

In a perfect world, a married couple would communicate like an ace jazz band—fluidly, intuitively, and easily. In the kitchen, the husband might solo on the saxophone-stove and the wife might hold th...

25 apr 12

Oysters and Wine Turn a Simple Dinner into a Party

I knew that having children would change my life, but I didn’t expect it to lay waste to my friendships. Trying to get together with old friends, even those with children around the same age as mine,...

22 apr 12

Quick Dinner Trick: Chicken Truffle Sausages

“Kids today, they grow up so fast.” I suppose parents have been saying that since the beginning of time, but I know it’s true in one regard for Nina and Pinta, and I have no one to blame but myself. ...

20 apr 12

French Country Lamb Stew to the Rescue

This evening, I left work dreaming of leeks, of butter melting in a cast-iron pot, of the scent of wine as it cooks down in a pan. I was dreaming of cooking for fun, for friends, for a party. Dreamin...

18 apr 12

The Science Behind Why Its Important to Undercook Fish

The other day, I was buying frozen salmon and I ran into my sister-in-law, who saw my purchase and asked me how I kept the fish from drying out when I cooked it. I didn’t have an answer, as I always ...

15 apr 12

Fooling Around on Friday

13 apr 12

Olive-Stuffed Lamb: The Rest of the Story

Just like going to therapy, going home is always full of surprises. Take the olive-stuffed lamb I was going to cook for Easter. My mother was kind enough to buy a leg, but the leg she bought had the ...

11 apr 12

Family Crisis Postpones Olive-Stuffed Lamb Report

We had a great Easter dinner, and I’m happy to say that the olive-stuffed lamb turned out more fragrant, more tender, and more delicious than I remembered it. Unfortunately, the night ended with a me...

09 apr 12

Olive-Stuffed Boneless Leg of Lamb for Easter

Back in prehistoric times, as in before I became a parent, we used to entertain more. I love to have people over for dinner, and during that period I received a wonderful gift from Santa Maria—a leat...

06 apr 12

Mostly Wordless Wednesday: Tax-Time Stew

04 apr 12

Five-Minute Meal Follow Up: Super Fast Lemon Sugar Cookie Recipe

I might do most of the shopping and cooking around the house, but to set the record straight, that’s simply because I’ve claimed the former activity and I can’t live without the latter. What I mean i...

01 apr 12

Five Tips for a Five-Minute Meal

I strive to deliver a good set of interesting recipes here each week, and I do it for two reasons. The first is to feed my family a wide variety of healthy and delicious meals, and the second is to p...

30 mar 12

Mostly Wordless Wednesday: A Raw Food Cookbook

28 mar 12

Summer Preview: Best Mussel Recipe Ever

This year, there wasn’t much of a winter in New York City. Granted, we did go sledding once, but it was, literally, the day before Halloween, so I’m not even sure that counts. Other than that freakis...

26 mar 12

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