By Nick • December 16, 2009
For each recipe during cookie week this week, I’m trying to keep a flavor or something from the previous day’s recipe. So I made peppermint whoopie pies yesterday to go with the peppermint bark on Monday. Today’s recipe uses the chocolate from the whoopie pies to make these ganache filled cookies!
Why did I organize the [...]
Posted in baking, desserts, good food, Holidays, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged chocolate, cookies, ganache, honey, thumbprint cookies, vanilla
By Nick • December 7, 2009
We don’t have a dishwasher. With as much as I cook, you can imagine that this is a mild inconvenience most nights. Bets and I have a pretty solid routine for this and she’s awesome at helping with the dishes after I cook. Actually, she just does most of them. If she’s not there to [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Fish, healthy | Tagged Dinner, Fish, honey, lime, one pot dinner, rice, salmon, salmon and rice
By Nick • July 13, 2009
Last week I had a meeting with my book club. Unfortunately, I didn’t read the book because I’m busy/lazy/[insert excuse here]. I figured that I had to make up for the fact that I didn’t read the book by making some really excellent food also known as homemade peanut butter cups.
I went with a chocolate [...]
Posted in desserts, Junk Food Junkies, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged butter, cayenne, chocolate, cinnamon, dark chocolate, homemade peanut butter cups, homemade reese's, honey, how to make peanut butter cups, peanut butter
By Nick • June 6, 2009
I have a rough time with breakfast some days. And it isn’t because I don’t like to eat it. Some mornings it just doesn’t happen for me. It doesn’t help that I don’t really like cereal. Most days I find myself eating an apple while I walk to work. Could be worse, but not exactly [...]
Posted in breakfast, Easy Stuff | Tagged brown sugar, chocolate, cocoa powder, feta, honey, oatmeal, oatmeal additions, oats, pomegranate, pomegranate juice, rolled oats
By Nick • May 28, 2009
Sometimes the reason why I make things is because I can’t find them in the store. Last weekend I really needed english muffins for a brunch I was making and the local store didn’t have any so I decided to make some. How hard could it be? Turns out it isn’t that hard.
English muffins also [...]
Posted in baking | Tagged baking, bread, breakfast, butter, healthy, honey, muffins
By Nick • May 13, 2009
This is a guest post from Corey Wood of corey-wood.com. You can also follow him on Twitter @coreywood. The guy knows a lot about my favorite condiment – mustard!
There are few dishes I find as comforting as fried chicken tenders and honey mustard. It’s a simple dish, quick to prepare and you really can’t mess [...]
Posted in appetizers, good food, Learning to Cook, spicy | Tagged appetizers, beer, condiments, fried, homemade, homemade mustard, honey, mustard, pickles, vinegar
