One of my favorite childhood meals was salmon patties, and for years I made them exactly the way my mother did. She’d mix chopped onions with canned salmon in a bowl, shape the salmon into patties, then flour and fry them. They were really good but I couldn’t help but wonder: if salmon patties made
I’m a huge fan of one-pot soups and stews especially as the weather cools, but I get bored making the same dishes year after year. I’ve long abandoned the classic “peas and carrots”-based stews I grew up on in search of something a little heartier and more interesting. This dish appeals to me because it
I had my first taste of authentic joloff rice in a West African restaurant many years ago and I’ve been trying to duplicate it ever since. My New Jersey-born mother made what she referred to as “red rice” when I was growing up which was probably an Americanized adaptation, although hers wasn’t quite as flavorful.
