Tag Archives: kitchen chores

Kitchen Chores Seven: Grinding Corn for Corn Bread

Comment | February 20, 2012 | By Brian Halweil | Photographs by Lindsay Morris

This one goes out to all the work-near-home parents who are juggling their out-of-school kids this week, and who are looking for productive and nourishing ways to fill their days. Among the booty that I brought back from the PASA conference was some Yellow Springs Farm cheese, assorted Mennonite jellies, a growler from the Elk [...]

The Assembly-Line Scallops, a la Calvin Trillin, were a good exercise in cooperation, sharing and taking turns.

Kitchen Chores Six: Calvin Trillin’s Assembly-Line Scallops

Comment | January 3, 2012 | By Brian Halweil

As is par for that most formidable pub, The New Yorker’s recent food issue was packed with so many tasty gems that it took weeks to get through it all. (Who has time to read them front to back?) There was Kelefa Sanefeh’s prediction of the fourth coffee wave in NYC–that strange place that might [...]

Kitchen Chores #5: Peanut Butter Cookie Improvisation

Comment | December 9, 2011 | By Brian Halweil

The cookie-baking thing that has swept through our household clearly has something to do with the weather–the steamy scent of dough in the house a little antidote to the shorter, colder days. But we like to think we are also channeling our new favorite show, Up All Night, in which Will Arnett and Christina Applegate [...]

Your local IGA, like ours in Sag Harbor, has what you need to make pancakes, although fresh corn is preferred.

Kitchen Chores Four: Last-of-the-Sweet-Corn Pancakes

Comment | November 1, 2011 | By Brian Halweil | Photographs by Lindsay Morris

With the frost officially on the pumpkin, sweet corn is getting scarce in these parts. It has been spotted at Pike’s and the Reeve’s Hayground Stand on the South Fork, and on the Caeser salad at the East Hampton Grill, I’m told. But local corn won’t be around for much longer. The getting is now, [...]

I'll dig, you gather: A couple days before Hurricane Irene, we harvested the last of our potatoes and roasted four batches just before the power went out.

Kitchen Chores Three: Hurricane Potatoes Change My Mind Again

Comment | September 21, 2011 | By Brian Halweil

Although Hurricane Irene passed our region nearly a month ago, it’s hard to shake the memories, including the masses of potatoes that we roasted the night Irene’s swirl hit Long Island, and just before the power went out.

The pretty-in-pink results. With inclusive berry picking, you've got to pick faster than your kids can eat.

Kitchen Chores II: Mixed Berry Ice Cream Changes My Mind

Comment | August 16, 2011 | By Brian Halweil

I take back everything I said about needing to involve kids in garden and kitchen chores. Well, not everything. But involving kids can sometimes be frustratingly counter-productive and downright messy, even when it yields a few pints of very good mixed berry ice cream. Well-meaning parents, across the region, might send their kids off to [...]

String bean lesson: Even for very young kids, kitchen chores can be communal, teach patience and compassion, and instill all sorts of good food values.

Kitchen Chores: Why Every Kid Must Clean Green Beans

Comment | July 25, 2011 | By Brian Halweil

I’m not sure what seems to change faster–the procession of in-season veggies that are now marching through our kitchen (cukes, corn, beans, the first little melons), or the evolving eating habits of a child. Consider that right now we’re eating a lot of green beans–that leguminous cousin of peas that comes on strong all summer [...]