One of my favorite gifts to give and receive is a great book. I haven't always been a voracious reader--I've gone through cycles. In elementary school...
One of my favorite gifts to give and receive is a great book. I haven't always been a voracious reader--I've gone through cycles. In elementary school...
Potlucks are one of my favorite ways to get friends together, eat a lot of good food and just have a good time. I don't need a lot of excuses to throw...
Ever since I tried the famous Zuni chicken + bread salad, I have recreated the dish at home a total of two times. Had I known how easy it was to ...
I'll be honest with you--I've been hoarding these cookies from you for quite some time. Two weeks, to be exact. These cookies are a little prelude to ...
A trip to Portugal a few years back re-introduced me to a cured meat that I hardly thought much of before: chorizo. While in Lisbon, I sampled so many...
Tomorrow is my birthday so it seems fitting to share with you a recipe for a chocolate caramel tart (with sea salt, no less). It's really decadent...
Bolognese is a traditional Italian meat sauce for pasta. It's awesome with linguine and papardelle--wide, long and sticky noodles that absorb the flav...
Beets are the shaggy, frumpy, rough around the edges type of vegetable that reminds me of a grumpy old history teacher. With awkward magenta lips and ...
If you haven't noticed already, I kind of have a thing for eggs. They're sort of the whole package. As a child, I exclusively ate yolks. Who wants the...
I've written about salmon a few times now--here and here. I'm not usually too particular on buying farm raised or wild salmon, but the last few times ...
Sometimes a restaurant is so hyped up, that I begin to question just how good it could be. Such was the case with Nopalito, a long-anticipated newcome...