But if not, I’ll bring a bottle of wine or some chocolate bars. I like to ask if there’s anything specific I can bring. There’s another woman her handle is Her signature thing she says when she starts every video is “Don’t yuck my yum.” She makes traditional Korean dishes, and it’s always really beautiful and delicious-looking. One of them is this woman named Tuệ, her handle is She makes reels where she talks straight to camera and makes incredible Vietnamese food. There’s a few creators who just inspire me so much. What are your favorite Instagram accounts to follow? I think they cost like $8 and they’re gonna last you 10 or 15 years. There are fancy ones that have stainless steel handles, but the ones that I like and find indestructible have the bamboo handle and the kind of woven-it looks like a metal mesh. They’re great for edamame, they’re great for any noodle, even lowering or lifting out eggs from hard boiling or making jammy eggs. I use them to get pasta out of the boiling water and into the sauce, yesterday I blanched some corn kernels and I used that to strain them. Wire spiders or metal skimmers-I have a six-inch one and an eight-inch one-and I use them every day. That’s where I think about specialty items that are so multipurpose. There’s a section in That Sounds So Good called 10 Tools You May Not Have but Could Definitely Use. What thing gets the most use in your kitchen? They’re good eaters when it comes to what kind of a sauce is on the pasta, but if there was one thing that everyone would get really excited about, it would be a ragù or meat sauce. What’s your kids’ favorite meal that you cook?ĭefinitely pasta. I always have furikake in the house, which is a rice seasoning. Steamed rice that you can put broth into, grate Parmesan cheese into. Night cereal, which is cereal you eat at night! Bread and butter-that’s what my mom would bring to me when I was sick in bed. I like to snack around and talk to the cheesemonger. I love sheep’s milk cheeses, and I love finding a cheese I haven’t had before. I probably gravitate over to the cheese counter, charcuterie. What’s an edible impulse buy you can never resist? We like a lot of ’80s/’90s R&B and hip-hop, we like some soul, we might listen to a good jazz mix, Frank Ocean might sneak in there, and my younger son really loves Queen and The Who. I have a 12-year-old and a 17-year-old, so it’s a wide range. We pretty much have WNYC on all day, and then we switch over to a music playlist when we sit down. It could be anything-it could be a big cluster of mushrooms it could be a little, tiny watermelon it could be multicolored eggplant. I know that’s vague, but I like shopping without a list and buying something that makes me hungry or inspires me to cook. And then I really buy the thing that looks the best to me. Whenever I go to the farmers market, I definitely walk end to end before I make a purchase, and that way you can see what’s abundant, what everybody has, what’s coming in or out of season. The colder months is actually the best time to be grilling, so I’m very much looking forward to some cozy fall Sunday-night grilling outside. I have a grill, but I also have a wood-burning oven in my backyard. And anything I can grill is really my favorite way of cooking. Now it's something that I would love to learn how to make at home and kind of acquiring the confidence and good teachers for that. I love eating Korean and Japanese food so much, so over the years that’s been something that I went to restaurants to seek out. What’s something you’ve been dying to cook but haven’t gotten around to yet? It's just so useful when you need a quick meal. And canned fish-whether it’s canned tuna, smoked trout, sardines, smoked salmon. My two go-tos are short grain white rice and something like a jasmine or a basmati rice. Rice-long grain, short grain, brown rice, red rice. Buttermilk, which is so useful for pancakes, dressings, and dips. Carla Lalli Music: We always have kimchee-if we don’t have kimchee, it’s a problem.
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