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Carne Asada & Chimichurri

Posted on July 27, 2020July 28, 2020 by Sam Kornstein in Food, General

I’ve made my favorite steak a few times over the past month, and shared the recipe with a couple friends, which made me realize I might as well just post it here for future reference and sharing. This has basically been borrowed from several other recipes and tweaked until I no longer felt it needed tweaking. The Marinade: 1 jalapeño sliced 4 cloves garlic minced 1/2 cup of spring onions sliced 1/2 cup of fresh cilantro finely chopped 1/3 cup of olive oil 1 orange squeezed 1 lime squeezed 1 lemon squeezed 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper The Steak: You’ll want to marinate the steak for at least

Family Dinner, Part 2

Posted on October 5, 2017October 6, 2017 by Sam Kornstein in Boston/Cambridge, Food, Garden, Recipes

Last weekend I shared a bit about a new Boston-based farm to table food delivery company called Family Dinner that was recently started by a couple friends I met at Sloan. The post is here. At that point, I had just received my first share, and was excited to dig into it with Laura. Well dig into it we did. True to the company name, the mix of food inspired us to invite some friends over and go all out by cooking a big Sunday night dinner. It was great. We started the night with a grilled open faced quesadilla, with the poblano peppers and cherry tomatoes from Family dinner, and the rest a mix of things we had around

Family Dinner

Posted on September 30, 2017September 30, 2017 by Sam Kornstein in Boston/Cambridge, Food

I’m excited about an awesome new food delivery service called Family Dinner started by my friends Tim and Erin. They source fruits, veggies, cheese, yogurt, meat, fish, pasta, bread, and eggs from local farms around New England, and deliver a share to your home weekly. It sounds like most of the items are organic, and those that aren’t are still coming from local farms with sustainable practices. It’s similar to Boston Organics, which I subscribed to for a number of years. But for me the differentiator is the meat, dairy, and grains. It’s nice to get a mix, and to be able to take the share and cook a full meal. Really pumped for dinner tomorrow. Here’s what I received

Ramen Recipe

Posted on February 27, 2017February 27, 2017 by Sam Kornstein in Food, Recipes

I recently made my first ramen, and think it came out well. I found a number of recipes online, primarily leveraging this one, and combined the ones that sounded good and had ingredients I could find in the neighborhood store. I’ll definitely continue experimenting, but here’s what I went with in my first go, for a serving of two: Ingredients: 2 chicken breasts, skin on 32 oz. chicken broth 1 jalapeno pepper 2 oz. mirin 1 oz. soy sauce 1 oz. chili oil 3 cloves garlic 1 inch fresh ginger 6 oz. ramen noodles 1 spring onion 1 egg 1 cucumber 8 shitake mushrooms 2 tbsp black sesame seeds Salt Steps: Broth: Finely mince garlic and ginger and add to large

Ordinary Breakfast

Posted on November 18, 2012November 17, 2012 by Sam Kornstein in Food, General

In response to getting tired of her friends posting pictures of their fancy meals on Facebook, my friend Jenny Lee started a blog titled Ordinary Breakfast, where she documents her morning cereals and other generally normal looking meal. In Jenny’s words: “Last night two friends and I discussed the topic of people taking photos of their meals and posting them online. Sure, we see tons of photos of extraordinary meals, but what about the ordinary ones? My breakfast, which usually consists of a bowl of highly unremarkable cereal and soy milk, eaten out of a paper bowl and with a plastic spoon (sorry, environment) at my desk at work, is just… Ordinary. Average. Heck, it’s probably even below average. And it

Rules for Eating & Drinking

Posted on April 25, 2011April 25, 2011 by Sam Kornstein in Food

Via Kottke: Rules for Eating & Drinking Michael Pollan: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Alex Balk: “Drink alcohol. Quite a bit. Mostly bourbon.” Sounds reasonable.

Before and After Dinner

Posted on March 24, 2011March 24, 2011 by Sam Kornstein in Food

Before: After: Before: After: After Again: Before: I’ll let you guess whether or not we went for it.

The Village of Gruel

Posted on March 21, 2011March 19, 2011 by Sam Kornstein in Food

Excellent choice of words in the translation:

Dinner in Guangzhou

Posted on March 16, 2011March 16, 2011 by Sam Kornstein in Food

Fish: Pigeon:

Free Beer!

Posted on February 28, 2011February 28, 2011 by Sam Kornstein in Bars, Beer, Boston/Cambridge, Current Events, Food

Gotcha, but it’s very close to free. A few classmates and I have been working on the board of a local non-profit organization, Somerville Local First (SLF). SLF helps to build “a sustainable Local First economy by supporting and promoting locally owned and independent businesses, artists and nonprofits” in Somerville. They’re hosting a fundraiser at the Foundry On Elm, a new restaurant and pub in Davis Square, on Wednesday, April 6th from 6:00-8:00pm. Tickets are only $20, and include a beer and wine tasting from 6:00-7:00pm and appetizers from 6:00-8:00pm. Here are a few reasons you should buy a ticket soon: 1. 100% of the money goes to SLF, so you’d be supporting a good cause. 2. The beer is all