Every once in a while I start feeling extra crafty when it comes to cooking.  I get these impulses to make really basic things that are readily available in the supermarket.  Once it was jam, another time it was bread – and there have likely been many other things over the years.
A few years ago [...]

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 [...]

I was reading the Food Section of the New York Times and stumbled upon this recipe for a risotto-style pasta dish by Mark Bittman.  I love risotto and I love pasta so I figured I’d see how this would all work out.
It was kind of labour intensive for no reason!  The pasta didn’t end up [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Okay, so I know that I wrote about the no-knead bread before BUT I kind of want to chronicle my success/ failure with the bread. So you get other post.
This time around I did about 2/3 whole wheat and 1/3 white. I also decided to kick up the health factor [...]

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 [...]

For the record, this isn’t the first time I’ve made this bread but now that it’s no longer too hot to turn on the oven I can go back to my bread making.
I started baking bread because I was really concerned with all the STUFF in packaged bread. I mean does bread REALLY need [...]