Monthly Archives: February 2009
Thursday fun: Top(?) Chef, pot brownies, and more goodies
Top Chef? Anyone else put off by the outcome of last night’s “Top Chef” finale? Hosea? Really? Mediocre all season long, too scared to make a dessert for the finale, and he still won? I’m with Hubert Keller–someone who will … Continue reading
Making dough
The editors at Epicurious must be reading my mind, because I’ve been thinking about bread-baking a lot lately and they just e-mailed me their newsletter with a link to a wonderful online guide to bread basics. How did they know? … Continue reading
Kitchen porn, or what I learned from redoing my kitchen
If you’ve ever lived through (survived?) a kitchen remodeling project, you know it’s messy, intrusive, and expensive. But if you love to cook, the kitchen is your favorite room in the house, so you’re always looking for design inspiration. … Continue reading
Tuesday’s tidbits
The CIA in Spain File this one under sites-you-must-bookmark. The CIA (Culinary Institute of America, that is) teamed up with the Spanish trade commissions for food and wine to create the spectacular new Worlds of Flavor Spain Web site. Forget … Continue reading
Take that, raw foodies!
I’ve always thought the raw food movement was a crock of hooey, a kooky offshoot of vegetarianism in which followers believe heat (above 108 F or 112 F or 116 F, depending on the source) “kills” the nutrients in food. … Continue reading
Recession food: Homemade strawberry jam
This week, I was working on a story for a Web site about how to eat supper for under a buck per serving when I got some simple advice from Julie Parrish, co-founder of the sites HotCouponWorld.com and OrganicGroceryDeals.com. Even … Continue reading
Oh, Joy
If you’re of a certain age–like, say, mine–you probably grew up in a household where The Joy of Cooking held an honored spot on the cookbook shelf. Well, maybe not honored in our house, since my mom didn’t really … Continue reading
Shopping scared
“Are you really going to eat that?” my mate asked yesterday. I was opening a jar of gourmet chocolate chip cookie dough peanut butter, which had arrived in a box of samples. “Yeah, I’m living on the edge,” I … Continue reading
Wednesday’s tasty tidbits
You don’t always get what you pay for The latest food scare–tainted peanut butter–reveals consumers still place too much trust in our current food safety system. It’s the “halo effect,” a new Hartman Group report reveals. Shoppers believe that if … Continue reading
Comfort me with pasta
It’s been a rough week, with a really sick cat and all, so I figured we could use some comfort chow for dinner tonight. These days, that means a pasta toss with lots o’ veggies. After hitting up the local … Continue reading
