Messy adventures in the modern kitchen
Plantains, or cooking bananas, have been delighting palates since the days of Cleopatra. To eat a banana raw, in fact, is a particularly modern phenomenon. And as much as we love a mildly sweet, mutated modern banana, there is something earthy and magical about this ancient bitter fruit that transforms […]
Fruit leather makes for happy, sticky memories: The day you had fruit leather in your lunchbox was a day to celebrate indeed! Giggling over boys and fart jokes on the schoolyard was just so much sweeter with a fruit roll up “thumbsicle” to gnaw on. This simple recipe for homemade […]
The banana sandwich is to Americans what Marmite is to the Brits: either you love it, or it the very idea makes you want to hide. If you happen to live North of the Mason-Dixon line it’s very possible that you’ve never even heard of it. But even if the […]
We started learning temakizushi, or hand rolls, this fall from a friend, but we had no idea they would become our favorite after-school snack! We love hand rolls because they don’t take a ton of skill to make, unlike maki rolls or nigiri (those beautiful ovals of rice topped with […]