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 [...]
My desire to make fake sushi has been rolling around my head for quite sometime. My first output was to make it with clay- a project that was fun, but got consumed up when it came to rice making… which is a hint as to how my compulsions play out!
This project isn’t very easy [...]
Yea- one culinary challenge crossed off the list! The last two days have been preoccupied with making homemade ricotta following the procedure outlined at Becks & Posh.
It’s so easy and rewarding! The ricotta is almost sweet tasting on its own. I’ve made all my batches with whole milk, and am now going [...]
My recent delivery of Lovescool’s Valentine’s Day Champagne Brownies gave me the inspiration to make little bite sized brownies. Her chocolate delivery was so charming and tasty and bite sized. A week after finishing them off, I’m still thinking of them and realizing that they addressed a fundamental rule that I have forgotten [...]
Little bites are such a rewarding way to cook and eat. There is more variety and a great excuse for playing with presentation, much how sushi operates.
Sweets and I had a nice dinner at Marche this last week. He had a dinner of Wood Oven Roasted Oregon Wild Chinook Salmon with Horseradish Crème [...]
28 cooks has a great recipe up for Polenta Crackers. I just made a batch yesterday and today made accompanying White Bean Purée to go with them.
This first batch I added green onion and garlic, and now can’t wait to make a rosemary parmesan batch.These crackers are light, snappy, and have a [...]
This exploration of color certainly rode into town on the coat tails of my amazement with Jello play and color layering. Color on color, flavor with flavor.
My favorite pasta dough is actually a bastardization of pasta. It’s a generic hot water dough that I use to make homemade potstickers. It’s [...]
I recently found myself craving cute little muffins… which is really no new desire in my book. The odd part was I really wanted apple muffins.
I’ve always claimed to not be into cooked apples. I’ve only appreciated apple pie with Sweets’ offered bites.
This lack of desire over cooked apples would perplex [...]
As tasty as it is, photographing half attacked pheasant doesn’t yield the most aesthetically pleasing image! This Thanksgiving I had the pleasure of having my first taste of this bird , and also actually enjoying crispy turkey skin for the first time too.
The turkey was BBQ’ed which yielded an amazing outer skin! Not [...]
