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 1. Pull 5 double shots of espresso 1. Combine 4 egg yolks and 4 heaping tablespoons of powdered sugar, whisk together until the color of pale yellow moonlight 1. Pour a small shot of bourbon. Throw half into the mixture, or all of it. 1. Add 250-300g mascarpone, whip until smooth and fluffy 1. Whip 2 cups of cream in the blender, add into the bowl 1. Now, add 1/2 cup of almond milk to the espresso, 1. Crush up a bag of cho

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 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