Despite all of the changes in social media and content creation over the past 15 years, I still follow a few blogs by RSS. I started on Google Reader in high school following mostly tech and gaming news, but when I started cooking on my own, I added in a few baking blogs as well. […]
I love watching cooking shows. Many cooking shows instruct the viewers on how to make an easy breezy dinner for four in twenty minutes or a eye popping dessert for your next potluck. But to be honest, rarely do viewers actually make the recipes. We all know it’s way more difficult than it looks, and […]
The world is filled with great, varied ethnic cuisines: a Mediterranean salad instantly conjures a different set of ingredients and flavors from an Asian salad. A Hungarian stew is completely unlike an Indian stew. However, regional or ethnic naming has also been picked up in marketing and recipe making as a shorthand for minor variations […]
When we used the KonMari method to throw away everything that didn’t spark joy, we had a tough time deciding on our cookbooks. The obvious test for whether we liked a cookbook is how frequently we use it, but that wasn’t enough. Some had sentimental value. Others made for great aspirational cooking but were somewhat […]
Despite being the recipe in the first post, Dorie’s Moroccan Semolina and Almond Cookies weren’t actually the first batch of cookies I made in this spree. I can’t quite remember whether the cookies or the goal came first, but one sleep-deprived morning, I woke up and just felt like I needed to make cookies and […]