What to do on a sunny yet temperate Sunday halfway up the eastern seaboard? Cook out of course! Andrea, Kirsten and Christopher planned up an afternoon cook out to celebrate their parents’ birthdays. I didn’t do any of the planning or much of the preparation, but I usually end up either smoking or grilling something, […]
Update:
bentoyum.com is awesome, very creative. It’s amazing the variety she puts in those lunches, especially when many of the ingredients are leftovers or second uses — my own lunches, typically one container of whatever single or mixed-up leftover is available from our previous meals, are very boring and homogenous in comparison.
The original post about […]
Sometimes, when the unconscious attention to small details necessary to make a good espresso becomes conscious, the whole process seems ridiculous:
This morning I fired up the Gaggia MDF espresso grinder to make my morning cup and watched bleary-eyed as it ground away, not really registering the pile of finely-ground espresso roast coffee accumulating below the […]
Cooking for Engineers is on my list of feeds, so I get notified whenever Michael posts a new article. His latest on Nestle Toll House Cookies got me thinking about cookies, and reminded me of the Good Eats episode on cookies. I appreciate Michael’s investigation of flour amounts, and when you think about it in […]
We FINALLY brought a dish to Grandma’s birthday party that someone ate besides us:
Sweet Potato Salad
From: The Thrill of the Grill
4 medium sweet potatoes (about 2 pounds cut into uniform large pieces
1/2 red bell pepper, seeded and diced small
1/2 green bell pepper, seeded and diced small
1/2 large red onion, diced small
4 T finely chopped […]