Friend of The Food Geek Greg Turner of Kitchen Sojourn tells a sad tale of a broken Alfredo sauce, a tale that I am not unfamiliar with. Back in the day, I used to make Alfredo sauce much the same way he did, and while it was tasty, you could feel the arteries clogging while [...]
Round 13 of TGRWT is Chocolate and Caraway. For various reasons, including the fact that I had recently made Chili, I thought that a Caraway Cocoa Chili would be an interesting.
Every step of the dish was on the precipice of disaster. I thought that there was way too much caraway, so I compensated with [...]
After eating some tasting menu or another (I do so many, I can hardly keep track), I wanted to replicate a taste combination of garlic and tarragon. This is not an uncommon combination by any stretch of the imagination, but it was after this tasting that I was making the Good Eats baked macaroni and [...]
My twitter friends know this, but I figured you all should know it as well: there is a secret to faster toast. I know, you think, “How long can toast take?” and I say it can take too long, especially when you forget to start cooking them before you put on the eggs, and now [...]
I may have to do this one. While reading what Erik at Fooducation wrote about the Food Timeline, I noticed that he is posting this month’s They Go Really Well Together (TGRWT). TGRWT, as you may remember, is a food pairing competition. You take two ingredients that generally are not classically paired but should go [...]
One of my favorite things to do is to make things that people don’t normally think to make. If you only know of something as a bottle or a can in a grocery store, then it’s entirely likely that you need to try making it at home at least once, to see what it really [...]
We’ve all been a bit uncomfortable with the idea of food trying to sell itself to us. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with tigers, toucans, rabbits, and leprechauns trying to sell cereal; that’s just sound financial sense for them. Even cows trying to sell chicken sandwiches, while rude, is not all that weird.
No, the difficulties [...]
From infodoodads‘ 12 sites for foody foodness (which, I should mention, featured me), comes Medieval Recipe Translations.
I know, I know. “But they didn’t even have sous vide back then! What kind of barbaric cooking do you expect us to do?” It’s fair. I understand. Still, how can you pass up a recipe for a frothy [...]
Sometimes we want to be a little playful with the Thanksgiving meal. Although during the rest of the season I will lean towards a more savory sweet potato casserole, in this particular instance we thought we’d give a nod towards the traditional method of sweet potatoing. In this instance, that meant putting marshmallows on top [...]
I discovered via FoodVu’s twitter feed that there is 2008 Holiday Drink Gift Guide from Drinkhacker.
It’s an interesting collection of drink options of various types (Bourbon, Scotch, Absinthe, Gin, Vodka, Rum, Tequila, Brandy, and a Liqueur). I am certainly intrigued by the Bourbon and Liqueur choices, and will probably have to get a bottle of [...]
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