When we had six people over for brunch this morning, I knew I wanted a main dish that would be easy to make, preferably in my shiny new crockpot. This white chicken chili fit the bill. A fusion of my stepsister's recipe and one from Food Network, it's light but still filling, and the flavors are reminiscent of another of my favorite dishes, ( Read more... )

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Danny Meyer, chef of New York's Union Square Restaurant, once said, "the best way to make people try something new is to roast it." I agree, but I think he forgot an important point: the item should be roasted in bacon grease. What doesn't taste good when it emerges from the oven crisp, brown, and infused with the flavor of bacon ( Read more... )

This is a highly unscientific recipe adapted from How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. You should stick to the proportion of wet ingredients to dry ingredients, and the baking powder is important for texture. Beyond that, the quantities of herbs, spices, meat, and cheese are very much a personal choice. They are pretty bland if you leave out ( Read more... )

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I pride myself on my carefully curated cookbook collection. For a bibliophile and foodie like me, it's hard to resist the allure glossy pages and colorful photos that promise treats from famous restaurants and distant countries. Yet, there are only about twelve cookbooks in my kitchen, each carefully selected from reader reviews and magazines' ( Read more... )

Being a food blogger is harder than I thought it would be - as you might guess, since I've barely done any of it since opening shop this summer. When the thermometer hit 110 degrees this July and stayed there, cooking lost a great deal of its appeal. As did, you know, moving. Especially if said movement would take me out from under the ceiling ( Read more... )

Today's food post comes without pictures (I was busy entertaining a friend) and without tantalizing stories to accompany it (I am desperate to record the fusion of recipes I created before I forget it). It is also ridiculously unseasonal -- I cranked the oven to 500 degrees on a day when it was over 100 outside -- but it made use of what I had in ( Read more... )

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