I’ve got my first post up on ReadyMade magazine’s blog! Spicy Hot Cinnamon Marshmallows are a new flavor variant on the ever encompassing marshmallow recipe. I’ve long admired ReadyMade’s fun projects ever since their cover project of a sod couch for your yard sprouted up. The blog aspect to the website extension of the magazine [...]
Some real, some made up, but all mostly fun: Appetist: a well adjusted enjoyer of food; a person with a healthy desire to eat. source- the Future Dictionary of America Bakin: a person with whom one eats bacon. source- the Future Dictionary of America Kummerspeck: a German term for the weight people gain from emotion-related [...]
Apple pie is one of those desserts I eat for the ice cream. Fortunately for me, this month’s Sugar High Friday theme of dairy lets me wallow in that desire. I happen to be home sick and need something that can shoot through my stuffiness. I think my whipped cream dispenser and Sweet’s jug of [...]
Sam put up a fun post yesterday asking her readers to identify an unnamed vegetable she picked up from a nearby farm. It was a fun new tidbit for me, having never heard of Puntarelle before. Here’s a similar one… what is the plant pictured here? It’s an ingredient I’ve been growing since I picked [...]
My work in the lab gives me great access to many tools that are screaming hot with chefs these days. Liquid Nitrogen, water incubators, and dry ice. Dry ice has been a friend in making fruit carbonated- which is great quirky stuff to play with. Awhile ago I posted a link to an article about [...]
This journey up North was a much-needed time for Sweets and I to unwind and relax in the company of like minded friends. We soaked and played in snow, and though I didn’t get to hit the chocolate shops on the way, we did indulge in some chocolate nibbles paired with raspberry lambic- taste bud [...]
I’m headed up to Mt. Hood for the weekend. My trip companions don’t quite realize it, but I’m going to have to take them hostage for a slight detour, as this trip has also become a mini-chocolate pilgrimage. Being the receptor to some wonderful chocolate confessions has built up a head of chocolate steam that [...]
