I have a bi-weekly habit I’d like to pass on to you: making your own butter. It’s amazingly easy to do, and delivers a solid high of kitchen happiness.
So in this day and age, why would you make your own butter?
Honestly- this butter tastes unlike anything you’ll buy in a grocery store. [...]
This summer I turned my freezer into a fruit reliquary.
I have tubs of golden raspberries, a mob of marionberries, bags of blueberries, and morsels of strawberries. Living in the northwest is a blessing in that it seems to have a berry named for every country.
My problem? I sometimes get stuck [...]
This recipe from the chef blog Ideas in Food is the perfect combination of salty, sweet, crunchy, chocolaty goodness. It’s the sort of snack that you want to curl up with on a rainy day, take home to meet the parents, hold in your hands on a long walk down the beach… yeah, it’s [...]
The process of making candied citrus peels reveals several steps in the process with which we can play around with the recipe to introduce some fun variations. We can easily tweak the shapes, flavors, tang and texture of this treat with a slight of hand that will make our gift recipients think we are [...]
After an organic beef jerky binge last week, I found myself peering into an empty bag, not quite believing I was sold 3 oz as a supposed three servings.
That gobble session cemented my motivation to make Alton Brown’s box fan jerky with buffalo from our Farmers’ Market.
Strips of marinated meat are arranged in air filters [...]
Do you feel your summer slipping through your fingers? This power punch of flavors will help you hold on to those last rays of sunshine.
Wanting the flavors of ceviche with out actually making ceviche is what inspired this jazzed up guacamole. Creamy avocado and mango, with a slight touch of shrimp, and the [...]
Squishy creepy Tissue Samples and firm little Eyeballs were a hit at our work Halloween Party.
The beet marshmallows got sprinkled with an extra bit of straight beet powder, which lent itself to look like blood clots quite splendidly. Putting them in a glass jar and relabeling them to be Liver Biopsy Samples was a [...]
We are going through an aweful heatwave right now. My part of the world isn’t aquainted with living in 100F weather- so there isn’t a whole lot of air conditioning to be had. This equals yuck.
One cooking strategy I employed this weekend is to get food made in the morning, to snack on [...]
I fall in love with food occasionally. My crush this week- are these skillet potatoes. They cook in a tomato based sauce that condenses down into a thick sweet ketchup like sauce that is amazing. I could easily eat this dish every day, giving it new nuances here and there to shake [...]
Sweets and I made a wonderful journey through spicy food during our last cold together. Unfortunately our nasal afflictions had given our taste buds a vacation, or maybe they were protesting… either way, spiciness was one of the few sensations that our tongues relayed back to our brains.
Decidedly tired of our bland palate we [...]
