Don't drop the ball, lache pas la boulette, with this Shrimp Boulettes recipe from Mosquito Supper Club (Artisan Books, April 2020) by Melissa Martin. Shrimp Boulettes Shrimp boulettes, or fried shrimp balls, might remind you of Thai fish cakes or Vietnamese shrimp on sugarcane. The shrimp is ground up and fried without any flour or cornmeal (shrimp is sticky enough to bind the vegetables together, so you don’t need to add any filler). Eat the...

Giving an estimate can be just that: giving an estimate. I want clients to keep that in mind on occasion. When some jobs take me to New York City, even now, travel time can be hard to predict. If many stops are part of the picture, it adds to the uncertainty. In these cases, I give an estimated price for the job based on details that are given to me, and make that clear to...