I’m just mad about Saffron…Saffron’s madly expensive… So, back for another edition of Spice Week, the cooking celebration of the reuniting of the Spice Girls. Yesterday, we looked at a way to make a warm herbed goat cheese with herbs de’ Provence which can be enjoyed as is. However, by using another great spice, in this […]
Year: 2007
Spice Week: Herbs de’Provence
Welcome back to another (slightly later than I would have liked) edition of Spice Week. In celebration of the Spice Girls reuniting, this week is all about how to use spices in your cooking. And yes, I realize that herbs de’Provence are herbs and not spices, but bear with me here. They’re a handy little […]
Spice Week: Indian Spices
Due to my illness, I took the week off to recover and try to eat something other than dry pasta. I’ve been partially successful. I did want to get back on track with my calendar so I’m using this week to talk about spices. And why I am so excited about spices? That’s right you […]
The Next Iron Chef 5
*** SPOILER ALERT *** In this post I say who gets kicked off the show. This week’s episode of the Next Iron Chef was decent episode. The task was to make a three course meal for 20 people using roughly $2,500 in ingredients (they got 2,000 Euros.) They were then paired up with a sous […]
Happy World Vegan Day!
That’s right, it’s back again for another crazy year. It’s World Vegan Day. I know many of you, my readers, are not vegans, which is just fine. Neither am I. However, there is nothing wrong with trying vegan recipes every now and then (like my soyrizo taquitos for instance…) I was vegan once for about […]
The Flu
So I’ve been sidelined with the flu the past two days, hence my quiet over the past few days. Thinking about food is torture right now, though I can now throw together an entire cocktail party based on the BRAT diet. I’ll try to catch up later this week.
The Next Iron Chef 4
I finished watching tonight’s episode of the Food Network’s The Next Iron Chef and I have to say that I find myself a little underwhelmed. Frankly, there is a lot to like about this show and only a little I find compelling. Sadly, the part that I find compelling is just compelling enough to keep me watching. […]
Food and the Family
So I’m having one of those nights where I’m sitting in front of my computer trying to figure out what recipe to share and all that came to me was “Recipe: Chocolate Chips.” 1) Drive to the store 2) Buy cookie dough 3) Drive home 4) Read instructions. And I think maybe my subconcious is telling […]
Howto: Simmer
Well now I’ve stepped in it. I’ve decided to tackle the topic of how to simmer food. This is one of those topics that illicits great debate on exactly what the proper way to simmer is, what temperature to use, and how best to deliver heat to the simmering liquid. Before we get into the […]
Recipe: Soyrizo Taquitos
In a episode of Dinner: Impossible, Chef Robert Irvine was tasked with preparing a cocktail party for a fashion designer in New York. During this challenge, he put together an amazing spread of finger foods including some awesome looking chorizo taquitos (he also did a salmon mousse which inspired the one I blogged on earlier.) A […]