Paneer – India’s Cottage Cheese
Paneer is a fresh cheese made and used in the cuisine of India. Similar to ricotta or cottage cheese, it is made by heating milk and introducing acid. These conditions cause the milk solids...
Monthly Archive: October 2020
Taking a Whack at New York’s Chopped Cheese
We had a lot of good sandwiches on that trip, but something about that Chopped Cheese sandwich had captured our imagination. It had some kind of alchemical magic about it, a combination of simple ingredients that was greater than the sum of its parts. We tried for months to make our own version at home. We got pretty close. But I think part of the magic of the sandwich is the locality of it, the immediacy of it. To be able to walk into a corner store, order a sandwich, and just a couple minutes and a couple bucks later walk out with a chopped cheese–that’s a magic that isn’t available outside certain parts of New York.
Chutney Baby One More Time
Chutney. It’s an Indian condiment. It might be made with herbs, or fruit, or chili peppers, or vegetables, or just about anything. It can be sweet or sour, spicy or refreshing, pungent or zesty,...
October List Sandwiches and September Wrapup
Welcome back, friends of the sandwich! It’s October of 2020! The days have gotten shorter, the evenings are getting colder, and we’re all getting older (but especially Jim, who just turned 50!), and the Tribunal has 3 more sandwiches on our plate for the new month.
Recent Comments