Category: Recipes

It's become fashionable or a mark of pride to eschew recipes. You'll hear many cooks boasting of how they never use a recipe, or they just use techniques they know on whatever they have …

As a child I hated lima beans. I mean, what child doesn't? They're lima beans! They're the punchline of a thousand jokes, the substance of a thousand threats, the stuff of a thousand …

Ah, the poor crockpot. It is used, nay, embraced all winter, when it churns out a steady stream of warming soups, hearty stews and stick-to-your-ribs casseroles. Then, come summertime and hot weather, the …

<img alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2442/3623628116_09103d0693.jpg?v=1246405358" title="Corsican Omelet" class="alignnone" width="500" height="333" /><br /> There is a phenomenon known as "breakfast for dinner" whereby seemingly normal people choose to ingest breakfast foods, namely French toast, pancakes and bacon for dinner. …

Have I ever mentioned that I am a raging Anglophile? I jealously hoard Colman's mustard, studied abroad in London, wrote my undergraduate thesis on franchise reform in Parliament, and pepper my speech with phrases like …

It's officially summer time, and if you're lucky that means vacations! I thought I'd start a little summertime series (of an indeterminate number of episodes) based on places I've traveled. A little travelog …

They say you are either a cake person or a pie person. While I think that this is a somewhat loaded dichotomy, and the "cool" answer is nearly always to be a pie person, …