By Nick • February 1, 2010
Believe it or not, I’m a huge believer that sometimes the simplest dishes are the best. A simple pizza, good chicken broth, and heck even well-cooked rice can be some of the best eats I know. That said, it’s very apparent to me that sometimes even those simple dishes can take longer than most people [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Learning to Cook, pasta, pork | Tagged bacon, bowtie pasta, carbonara, eggs, how to make carbonara, leeks, pasta
By Nick • December 5, 2009
I’m not really one of those guys that believes that bacon makes everything better. I think it makes most things better, but not everything. In my humble opinion, the bacon craze that swept through the food blogger community over the last year or so was just a bit much. I’ll pass on the bacon-stuffed, bacon-wrapped, [...]
Posted in baking, breakfast, pork | Tagged bacon, breakfast, chewy cookies, dried cherries, maple syrup, oatmeal, oatmeal cookies
By Nick • November 5, 2009
There was a tie in last week’s poll so I went ahead and used some editorial powers to break the tie. Shepard’s pie is good, but I was really intrigued by the golden onion pie recipe so I was glad to see it near the top and decided to give it the winning tie-breaker vote.
The [...]
Posted in baking, breakfast, Dinner | Tagged bacon, browning onions, onion pie, onion tart, onions, pie
By Nick • September 10, 2009
I really struggled with what to make when a Baked Dip won the poll last week. I know a few very good baked dips, but I feel like a lot of people kind of know all of the same baked dips. I wanted to try something a bit new.
I had some potatoes left over from [...]
Posted in appetizers, Easy Stuff | Tagged appetizers, bacon, baked dip, cream cheese, dip, garlic, potatoes, scallions
By Nick • June 27, 2009
There are some meals that were made to be eaten after a night out. This is most definitely one of them. In fact, the first time that I made this dish to post on Macheesmo, the night before was such a long night out on the town that all of the photos were horrible and [...]
Posted in breakfast, pork | Tagged bacon, bacon hash, breakfast, brunch, cubing potatoes, how to make hash, potatoes
By Nick • May 30, 2009
Ok. If you read Macheesmo regularly (and you should!), you’ll probably know that I’m a brunch fanatic. I love making a really good brunch, having a few drinks and relaxing with friends. After I got back from Europe, I was ready to make something delicious. I decided to serve a few different eggs Benedicts (vegetarian [...]
Posted in breakfast, good food, pork, spicy, The Drink, TIWSIMRIIHAR | Tagged bacon, benedicts, Bloody Marys, booze, breakfast, brunch, cocktails, eggs, eggs benedict, eggs florentine, hollandaise, muffins, spicy, spinach, sriracha, tomato, vodka
