The creative cooking escape of a busy mama in Army Boots.
I don't need much of an excuse to whip up a side dish of buttery mashed potatoes. I love them and Marcus tears into them with both hands. But every once in a while, especially as we get into the holidays, I want to dress them up a little. You wouldn't think you can improve [...]
"Have you ever had shawarma? There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it." ~Tony Stark, The Avengers Jump to Recipe! I laughed at this scene in The Avengers when it came out, because that's how many of the recipes in my house start out. Have you heard [...]
I'm pretty good about keeping the clutter in my house to a minimum, but you know where I am absolutely terrible? My digital life. Isn't that horrible? I work in data. I live in information. I get paid to organize it. And I'm a digital hoarder. It's pretty fun sometimes, though, because I find things [...]
Jump to Recipe! I won't say the holidays in my family are stressful. It's nice to be around a bunch of people who are related and also happen to like each other and have decent people skills. I also won't say the holidays in my family aren't stressful. Because there's just something about this time of year [...]
I've been hanging onto this recipe for a while, but I held it because maple and butterscotch seem well suited to Octobers. The hard part hasn't been gushing over this recipe because it's so good {it is!}. The hard part has been not adding to it. You see, I have this thing with maple. I [...]
Jump to Recipe! Oeufs en cocotte, also called coddled eggs, or literally eggs in pots, are a traditional French dish. You take a ramekin and add eggs, creme fraiche, and occasionally ham and cheese, and bake them in a water bath until they're done, and serve them up with some crusty bread for dipping in the egg [...]
Those of you who, like us, have enjoyed Chef or The Chef Show, know the importance of THAT grilled cheese sandwich. There's a scene in Chef where Jon Favreau's Chef Carl Casper meticulously makes a grilled cheese sandwich for his son. And for chefs, home cooks, and foodies around the world, it was...well...life changing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BTfctEmg5w They covered how to make the sandwich in The [...]
