Writing about food since 2004.
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Rachel Wharton’s Pimento Cheese
Because we had some technical issues with the first broadcast of “Someone’s In The Kitchen With…”, I’m afraid many of you missed Rachel Wharton’s very winning recipe for pimento cheese. As you can see by the picture, this is a pimento cheese to be reckoned with: it’s spicy, it’s tangy, it’s creamy, it’s fluffy and…
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Spicy Spatchcocked Chicken with Cous Cous Salad & Salsa Verde
Remember yesterday when I posted about making salsa verde with a mortar and pestle? And remember this morning how I linked to a Huffington Post piece I wrote about roasting a chicken? Now it all comes together in this post, a post that begins with a confession: last week, I made a meal on Monday…
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Someone’s In The Kitchen With….
Tomorrow at 3 PM EST I’m starting a new feature here on the blog, a live-streaming web show I’m going to call “Someone’s In The Kitchen With….” Each week, a different guest will swing by my kitchen to teach me how to cook something and, more importantly, they’ll answer your questions LIVE on the web.…
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Reasons To Roast A Chicken
My latest piece is up on Huffington Post, “Reasons To Roast A Chicken.” If you’re not roasting a chicken every week, I hope this will change your mind.
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Salsa Verde via Mortar and Pestle
I’ll let you in on a blogging secret. We bloggers want you to click all over our blogs because every time you click, we make $0.001 and, eventually, that adds up. (That’s why all successful food bloggers ride around in Porsches or, in my case, the subway.) So it’s a fairly significant fact that in…
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Zhenya’s Stinging Nettles
You may recall that a few weeks ago, I befriended Zhenya, The Feral Gardener, while buying a Dr. Brown’s black cherry soda at Katz’s Deli. On May 1st, Zhenya wrote me an e-mail: “I just picked a ton of very young stinging nettles and would be happy to give you at least half a ton….…
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Sour Cream Coffee Cake
It was only after I’d started making this coffee cake, mixing the butter and sugar, that I realized this wasn’t a round 9-inch cake sort of deal; this was a 13 X 9-inch beast. Yes, I know, you’re supposed to study a recipe carefully before proceeding; and yes, you’re supposed to butter the pan before…
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Let Them Eat Cake
Here’s my second piece for The Huffington Post (click here); it’s about junk food and why feeding it to your kids is ok, in moderation.
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Asparagus & Ramp Risotto
Spring is here at last and that means you’ll find two things at the farmer’s market that you won’t find there any other time of the year: ramps and asparagus. Sure, you can find asparagus at the grocery store in January, but that asparagus is as far a cry from farmer’s market asparagus as a…
