Adventures of a Home Cook
You know that feeling in those first days of Spring, when the temperature barely cracks 60F but the sun is shining and the future of warm, sunny, summer days are before you? When after months of snow and ice and cold you feel so hot …
I often find myself going down kitchen “rabbit holes” where I become obsessive about certain culinary idiosyncrasy to the point where it borders on compulsion. Sometimes this results in delicious outcomes and other times my family is left eating what was intended to be homemade …
Chrissy Teigan consistently comes through with delicious recipes that are easy to pull off and leave you thinking: of course! Why am I just learning about this now?! Case and point: salt and vinegar french fries. They have the taste of salt and vinegar chips …
To say that this was an unusual Easter is certainly an understatement. With social isolation continuing for much of the globe, most families spent their Easter alone or celebrated with video chats and telephone calls. It was quiet, slower, more introspective. While I would not …
January is officially the longest month of the year. Even this year, when we have received more rain then snow, the sky is gloomy and it is dark when I wake and dark when I drive home. The festive air has vanished and we are …
It is New Years Day: the most ambitious of days. A day where we take stock of our shortcomings and resolve to do better. The vast majority of us declare that we will ‘be healthier’ after a month filled with sugar coated cookies and sour …
I may be slightly obsessed with potatoes. But they are really the most versatile, perfect side. My latest obsession has been with these crispy smashed potatoes. They are a cross between a crispy home fry and a buttery roasted potato, which results in the perfect …
I am far from a vegetarian, but I am very interested in new salad and vegetable recipes. Nothing excites me like a new spin on old greens. A great salad recipe is one that is versatile: it can be substituted with what is in your …
This is part 2 of our “Lets Make Thanksgiving Stress-Free” posts. Gravy. Gravy stresses a lot of people out. There is the dreaded “lumps” that seem to appear out of nowhere (more on this below). The unclear sense of adequate volume- too much? too little? …
Every year for my mother’s birthday she requests the same meal: hamburgers, old fashioned potato salad and lemon-aid cake (recipe will be coming soon!). The sheer volume of meat and potato salad consumed by a tiny little woman is quite impressive. We are talking twice …