I love ribs.  Part of me thinks they should be a food group to themselves.  But alas that won’t happen.  I make ribs a few different ways and am always on the lookout for new ways to make them.  Having always lived in an apartment I’ve never been able to do the whole backyard grilling [...]

Clearly I have not been so up on my New York Times reading recently since I missed Mark Bittman’s most recent article on No Knead Bread.
Click on the link below to read:
No-Knead Bread: Not Making Itself Yet, but a Lot Quicker .
The article takes a look at how to shorten the time needed to [...]

At last! After months and months of experimenting I’ve finally nailed the 100% Whole Wheat Bread baking.
If you’ve browsed through the archives you may have noticed my obsession with bread making. And not just any bread making but the no-knead technique brought to the attention of the masses (I’m totally the masses and [...]

And the quest for the perfect “no-knead” loaf continues. If you’ve stumbled upon this site before then you may have noticed that I’m obsessed with making the no-knead bread recipe that was featured in the NY Times about a year and a half ago. If you click on the “Other Yummy Things” [...]

Falafel! gets an exclamation point every time because it’s one of my all-time fave foods. Seriously, I LOVE LOVE LOVE a falafel! My fave falafel! is from L’As de Falafel! in Paris. It’s the gold standard and absolutely delicious. But alas I don’t live in Paris and my quest [...]

I’ve made no secret that I’m obsessed with this bread. It has literally changed my life. I don’t buy bread anymore because homemade is so much better.
If you do a quick search on this site with the term “lahey” you’ll come across my previous attempts with the bread. My goal is to [...]

So I had a special request to do a post about kitchen essentials. I interpreted this as being about tools that I absolutely need (or totally enjoy having) in my kitchen. They range from things that you can use everyday to things you may use once every year.
Mark Bittman wrote a great [...]