By Nick • February 25, 2010
I wasn’t shocked when The Pioneer Woman won last week’s poll. She’s pretty much the most popular thing since Barack (2008). The hard part though was deciding what to make out of her latest cookbook. I didn’t really want to make a meat heavy dish which eliminated about 75% of the recipes, so instead I [...]
Posted in baking, desserts, Junk Food Junkies | Tagged brownie, brownie chocolate, brownies, butter, cakes, chocolate, chocolate brownie, cocoa powder, coffee, cookies, desserts, frosting recipe, homemade brownies, mocha brownies, mocha chocolate, mochas
By Nick • January 28, 2010
Let the record clearly show: I was not defeated by spanakopita. After my abysmal failure last week, I bounced back, re-grouped, read about 20 different recipes, bought a bunch of spinach, and tackled it with a fresh pack of phyllo dough and a fresh attitude.
Just to show spanakopita who’s boss, I decided to make two [...]
Posted in appetizers, Dinner, good food, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged appetizers, butter, dill, feta, feta cheeses, greek cuisine, how to make spanakopita, middle eastern cuisine, olive oil, pastry, phyllo, phyllo dough, ricotta cheese, spanakopita, spanakopita recipe, spinach, spinach pie
By Nick • January 27, 2010
When I used to bartend, I worked for a long time in the same restaurant and got to know the cooks pretty solidly. It was a Southern style restaurant with really good comfort food – fried chicken, shrimp and grits, etc. As I got more comfortable with the place, I would occasionally ask questions about [...]
Posted in Easy Stuff, Ingredients 101, Learning to Cook | Tagged butter, clarified butter, how to make clarified butter
By Nick • December 17, 2009
I made some kind of elaborate cookies this week on Macheesmo. Ok. I haven’t made anything ridiculously elaborate, but all the cookies so far have been filled or stuffed or layered or something that involves more than one bowl and a baking sheet.
So for the last cookie of the week, I wanted to do something [...]
Posted in baking, Easy Stuff, good food, Holidays | Tagged brown butter, butter, cookies, sugar cookies
By Nick • November 16, 2009
In my food letter a few weeks ago I promised that I was going to do something with chestnuts this month. I’ll admit that having never worked with them, chestnuts always just looks like mysterious little wood chunks – expensive mysterious little wood chunks. They were so worth it though. If you’ve never had chestnuts [...]
Posted in Dinner, good food, pasta, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged butter, chestnut ravioli, chestnuts, how to make ravioli, mascarpone, ravioli
By Nick • October 17, 2009
There’s nothing like a warm breakfast during the fall. Similarly, there’s nothing like a warm dessert! This baked apple dish can kind of be both. I call it a breakfast baked apple because I stuffed it with homemade granola leftover from my peanut butter granola bars!
When a baked apple is done right, it is pretty [...]
Posted in baking, breakfast, desserts, Easy Stuff, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged apples, baked apples, breakfast, brown sugar, butter, granola, how to bake an apple
