Adventures of a Home Cook
I could make this biscuit recipe for the rest of my life and never feel the need to change. As someone who constantly tinkers with recipes, that is saying something. I have found ‘the one’. No new techniques, Instagram teasing images, or young, attractive recipes …
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 …
There is something immensely satisfying about cooking a whole bird on top of a beer can over open flames/coals. When I first came across Beer Can Chicken, it sounded gimmicky and something you would expect to find a frat party. However, one taste of the …
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 …
Marcus Samuelsson is probably most well-known for having been the guest chef at President Obama’s first state dinner. However, the more I learn about Samuelsson, the more interested I am. Samuelsson was born in Ethiopia but was adopted at a young age by a Swedish …
I went to Jamaica on my honeymoon. I expected to enjoy the ocean, swim up bar, and that blissful feeling of relaxation that comes in an all-inclusive resort. However, I was surprised to discover how delicious the food was. Jamaican patties are the perfect hand-held …
Edna Lewis was a legendary chef and cookbook author who in large part contributed to the view of Southern food and cooking that is popular today. When she wrote her famous cookbook “The Taste of Country Cooking” in 1976, Southern food was not the prolific …
It is hard to write a post about something as relatively meaningless as food during this time. It is difficult to find the right words to express how saddened I am about the state of equality, not only the United States, but in the world. …
Fresh pasta is light and delicate and gloriously better than anything you can buy in a box. Working the dough is therapeutic and running your own pasta sheets through a hand-cranked pasta roller makes anyone feel like an Italian nonna. This is the perfect ‘rainy …
Quarantine has combined with horrible weather to make this winter feel like the longest winter imaginable. It has snowed 3 times in May. I know I live in Canada, but come on! For the first time all year it was marginally nice out. I’m not …