One of my favorite food activities is when someone is having a problem with a recipe and ask for help. Whether it’s asked directly to me or just in my vicinity, it gives me a chance to test what I’ve learned and see how well I’m doing. There’s nothing like taking some basic problem, breaking [...]
One of my twitter friends posted what was, to him, a disturbing tale of a cake transformed. In 140 characters or less, here was the conundrum:
After eating the cake, his mind was alight with frightening tales of adulterated coffee in offices and strange and weird ways that the cake could have become more moist over [...]
The Very Good Taste Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild [...]
Yesterday, I thought I would give my wife a treat, so I made for her a bit of art on her latte. We were watching Babe at the time, so I figured it would be fun to make a rooster crowing on the roof of a farmhouse. It wasn’t until after I finished that [...]
Hot cheese bread: grip it and rip it! | King Arthur Flour - Bakers’ Banter: “
If you’re a yeast bread baker, you know that different loaves provoke different visceral responses. There are sandwich loaves, golden brown and perfectly domed, that seem almost too beautiful to cut into. And there’s country sourdough bread, whose occasional lack [...]
Seasonal Ingredient Map: “Epicurious has created a handy, interactive map of seasonal produce by state. Select a month, hover over a state, and a list of in-season ingredients is displayed with links to the ingredient descriptions and recipes….
I was looking for one of these a couple of years ago, and this one seems pretty good. [...]
Making your own vanilla extract appeals to me tremendously. I must do this.
The Traveler’s Lunchbox - Project Vanilla: “There are probably easier ways to do it, where you just use a set ratio of beans to alcohol and let it sit until ready. The beauty of this method, however, is that a) aside from the [...]
It was time to do something about all the apples that we had, so yesterday we decided to make a pie. A lemon custard pie.
No, it was an apple pie, of course. I had a pie crust left over from when I was trying out the Whole Foods frozen pie crusts. They are, incidentally, not [...]
What? Ice cream and diet coke? Noooooo. That’s crazy talk!
No, there’s a curious little Coca Cola tidbit that goes like this: a can of Coke will sink to the bottom of a container of water, but a can of Diet Coke will float. Now, why would this be? The quick explanation is that Coke is [...]
As spring approached, I felt it was necessary to turn my deck into a garden. Why? Well, partially because fresh fruit and herbs are super-tasty, and partially because my yard is far too filled with evil, herbivorous critters that want nothing better than to eat all my tasty fruits. My
Rosemary. The tastiest evergreen shrub [...]
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