In my look-ahead to February on the blog, I’d noted that I had not posted a recipe poll for the month and would instead be clearing out my backlog of recipes. In fact, I am going to be taking a break from posting recipes in any regular manner for the month of February and probably through March as well. Though it may not appear to be the case, given how sloppy my recipe writing is, recipe posts actually take more of my time to produce than my whisky reviews or restaurant reports. And right now I don’t have the time for that. Through February my recipe energies will be focused on the pop-up dinner I am doing with/at Alma at the end of the month. And in March I will likely be setting out again on some long and tiring international travel on behalf of the college. And so rather than hold myself to the usual schedule of weekly recipe posts, I am going to give that a rest for a while and instead clear out my even larger backlog of restaurant reports. By my rough calculation, I have six reports to go from our trip to Southern California in December and 15 from Delhi and Goa in January. And let’s not even mention my long-promised reports from my trip to Dublin and western Ireland in July…

It’s not out of the realm of possibility, however, that I might occasionally put up a recipe post if I’m particularly enthused by something new I’ve made. If I do, that’ll still show up on Thursdays. More regularly, I’ll be posting more informal food content on Instagram—so if you don’t follow me there, this might be when you give in. Or you can look for recipes that you’ve missed from my now rather-extensive archive.