By Nick • February 13, 2010
Generally, I’d like to think I’m a romantic guy. I like snuggling, holding hands, and smoochin’. But, I’m not crazy about Valentine’s Day. I like spending time with people I love (or even friends/family) on Valentine’s Day, but I’m not huge on the dozens of roses and expensive dinner situation.
Luckily, my future wife isn’t too [...]
Posted in breakfast, Easy Stuff, good food, Holidays, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged brunch, capers, chocolate, cream cheese, crepes, how to make crepes, mascarpone, nutella, smoked salmon, Valentine's Day
By Nick • February 8, 2010
The Italians are geniuses. They found a way to stuff all of my favorite things into a single dessert: alcohol, coffee, chocolate, and even cheese. That dessert is tiramisu.
My only issue with tiramisu is it generally uses Brandy which isn’t something I have laying around. Bourbon, however, I do normally have and tend to like [...]
Posted in baking, desserts, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged bourbon, cinnamon, cocoa powder, coffee, dessert, ladyfingers, mascarpone, tiramisu
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 • August 24, 2009
Sometimes I have an idea for a dish (in this case a brownie) and I get really excited about it. I talk about it and think about it. Sometimes I remind myself of the cute kid in the Disney commercial. I get so excited I can’t even sleep!
I’ve made brownies before with cream cheese in [...]
Posted in baking, desserts | Tagged brownies, chocolate, desserts, mascarpone, sugar
By Nick • April 20, 2009
Today is the deadline for entries to the Annual Pillsbury Bake-off. Today is also the day I will not be winning one million dollars. Turns out Pillsbury considers me a “food professional” and therefore disqualified me. Guess what… if you have a food blog then you’ll be disqualified also. Kind of [...]
Posted in baking, chicken, Dinner | Tagged apricots, calzones, chicken, mascarpone, mozzarella
