Spinach salad. Nobody knows exactly from which country it hails, but it’s been ruined badly enough in this country for Alton Brown to devote an entire episode to it. But where he was concerned with the construction of the salad, I’m concerned with the technique that goes into making its variation: chicken spinach salad. And rest…
I used to HATE tomatoes. For. Real. It all began one fateful elementary school lunch. The main dish? Tomato soup. I got out of the school cafeteria and sat down with my friends. My spoon was whipped out, my mouth was watering and my tummy ready for delicious food. And then I smelled the tomato…
Sometimes, I want to eat as much fat as possible. I want potato chips that crunch so hard that I bleed (not really, but kinda). I want cheese so cheesy that other cheeses seem like lies. I want beef so fresh and so perfectly cooked that it makes me part cow. And I want some…
I notice a disturbing trend in my posts with bacon and garlic. I like them. A lot. And I use them. Too much. And I’ll try to change, I really will. As soon as I’m done with this post. Bacon lemon garlic chicken. This is how Gaston would cook his chicken. Bacon, garlic and lemon…
Whoever got us thinking that dessert had to be bad for you clearly never met the combination of coconut pie crust and this simplest triple-berry pie! With honey, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries and that coconut pie crust, I wouldn’t advise eating the entire thing in a single sitting, but I’m relatively certain that there are worse things that…
Pie is one of my favorite desserts, but pie crust is one of my least favorite things to make. It’s a lot of very time and temperature sensitive work. And it takes a while. Sometimes you just don’t have time to make your pie crust and sometimes you simply yearn for a great shortcut. Which…
A 2nd post about brownies in two weeks? Why on EARTH!? Because serendipity struck me while I was making my peanut butter bacon brownies, and serendipity is a mistress that shall not be denied! I got my ingredients and baking time off on my first try and ended up with the most delicious brownies! Crispy…
I kind of chuckle when I think about brownies; they were the second food that I ever tried to make. I still remember being in Brazil as a missionary deciding to make them for a few Brazilians, And I remember being surprised when I ended up with scrambled eggs instead of brownies (How is that possible,…
Sometimes, I want to eat as much fat as possible. I want potato chips that crunch so hard that I bleed (not really, but kinda). I want cheese so cheesy that other cheeses seem like lies. I want beef so fresh and so perfectly cooked that it makes me part cow. And I want some…
Tuna sandwiches are my childhood, but I haven’t eaten them in years. They lose a little bit of their magic when you get older. They used to be towering stacks of delicious fish goodness, but now they’re tiny waifs of diminishing childhood dreams. That’s why I’ve created these French monster tuna melts. Because updating dreams…
Don’t you love that first bite of food, when the crust crunches, the flavors ignite and you can’t help but almost groan at how good the food tastes? Yeah, me too. If the first bite is like that, I know the dish is a keeper. I call it the first-bite test. Things that pass the…
I’m from Philadelphia. I love cheesesteaks. I love the cheesesteaks sold by street vendors and the cheesesteaks sold at high-end establishments like Pat’s or Gino’s. I love them all. They’re my artery-clogging food of choice! They’re also the key to almost all of my social ills. So trust me: these baguette cheesesteaks using top round…
I'm (cue theme music!) "The Mormon Food Guy"!
I can't say that I really started cooking until my freshman year of college.
That year I met a few people who could cook and they got me cooking. I started out with Quesadillas. Really, really, really bad quesadillas. And then I stopped cooking for a while.
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