1. Season scallops on both sides with salt, pepper and garlic, and lightly dust with flour.
One appetizer was a dish of tiny dried anchovies, as slim as spaghetti, fried crisp and dusted with garlic and chile powder.
Alongside I like Swiss chard prepared just the way I would cook spinach, sautéed with garlic and given a dusting of Parmesan cheese.
Other classics are updated rather than upended: popcorn dusted with garlic, cumin and brewer's yeast, which evokes cheese; snappy pickles fermented with gochugaru, Korean red chile powder; pork ribs glazed with more gochujang, teasing the sweet-salty border without straying too far in either direction.
Makes 20 60gramam flour 85g self-raising gluten free flour, plus extra for dusting 1 garlic clove, finely grated 1 tsp dried oregano 1 tsp pimenton ½ tsp cayenne pepper ½ tsp salt 85g salted butter 25g cheddar, finely grated 25g parmesan, finely grated 1 egg yolk 1 tbsp cold water 1 Preheat oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4. Sift the flours into a large mixing bowl.
Scatter on garlic and remaining thyme and dust with salt and pepper.
But what they're doing — at least the smart ones — is grabbing fistfuls of deep-fried hominy nuggets dusted with ginger, garlic, chipotle and sugar ($5).
The last thing I made for myself (pictured) was baked chicken thigh with my favorite cherry grape BBQ sauce, thyme and green garlic sweet potato puree, chipotle dusted broccoli, and spring mix salad with roasted beets, blueberries, and lemon vinaigrette.
Add one pinch of cayenne pepper, one pinch of sugar, and lightly dust the sauce with garlic powder.
The meal starts out with a basket of fresh grilled pita, dusted with herbs and garlic and lightly charred on the namesake grill.
Littleneck clams, so often overly breaded or chewy, were memory makers: tiny, sweet, tender, lightly seasoned with garlic, lemon and white wine, and dusted with a mere sprinkle of buttery crumbs.
