Cooking

I enjoy cooking.

Some of my favorite things to make include dishes with fish, bread, and anything Italian.

For most meals, I will collect a handful of recipes online, consult the better cooks in my life, and improvise based on what I have in hand. I have a handful of recipes that are these rough sketches, and a few more precise instruction sets, since I find baking to be less... forgiving.

Some of my recipes:

Whitman's TiramisuWhitman's TiramisuIngredients Mascarpone Sugar Eggs Cream Almond milk Vanilla Pull 5 double shots of espresso Combine 4 egg yolks and 4 heaping tablespoons of powdered sugar, whisk together until the color of pale yellow moonlight Pour a shot of bourbon. Throw half into the mixture and have the other half for yourself Add 250-300g mascarpone, whip until smooth and fluffy Whip 2 cups of cream in the blender, add into the bowl Now, add 1/2 cup of almond milk to the espresso, Crush up a bag of chocolate-cover

Whitman's FocacciaWhitman's FocacciaIngredients * 2 cups warm water (100 f) * 2 teaspoons (5g) active dry yeast * 2 teaspoons honey * 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil * 500-600g all purpose flour (4 to 5 cups) * 1 tablespoon sea salt * 25g grated hard cheese (parmesan, pecorino, etc) 1. Put the yeast and sugar in a large mixing bowl.  Stir in warm water gently and wait 10 minutes 1. Mix in flour and sea salt, knead a bit for the gluten gods 1. Cover with plastic and rest overnight in the fridge 1. Line two half baking sheets with

The MealThe MealThis is a rough outline of a recipe inspired by my typical lunch order at Dig (formerly Dig Inn)) When getting lunch in manhattan, this was one of the healthiest and most satisfying meals I could put together. I ended up getting it for lunch so often I made it at home. I ended up making it at home so often I began referring to it as 'the meal', at one point being a solid plurality of my meals. It has 3 basic parts: * Chicken breasts, optionally coated in a mix of gochujang & honey * Sweet pota

Whitman's Banana BreadWhitman's Banana BreadIngredients 4 eggs 4 ripe bananas 1.5-2 cups of flour (almond, etc) 1 cup baked sugar coconut oil for the pan 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 shot bourbon 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoon flaxseed 2 teaspoon collagen 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 heaping teaspoon cocoa powder 2 splashes of MCT oil dark chocolate chips Steps 1. Bake 3/4 cup of sugar at 300f for 1 hour 1. mix dry ingredients 1. mash bananas into a bowl and add wet ingredients, then dry 1. with coconut oil, line a cake pan with parchme