All-American Thanksgiving

Every year around this time, I get inspired to attempt a down-home and beautifully-choreographed Thanksgiving feast for my family. The kind that Claire and Cliff Huxtable would be proud to host (to this very day, The Cosby Show for some reason is my yardstick for “traditional” households).

A gorgeously roasted whole [...]

The Great Eggo Shortage of 2009

Faithful reader(s)- let me start off by saying: Don’t Panic.
I consider myself a relatively calm person. Not exactly nerves-of-steel, but let’s be honest: I don’t freak out.
I’m freaking out.
I just heard about impending Eggo crisis. Read about it on this economics blog if you’d like. The Kellogg factory has had some “technical [...]

CPR for 2-week old eggplants

If you like cooking as I do, there’s really nothing better than making something up from ingredients you randomly happen to have at home and have it turn out really great, just as Adam Roberts did with his yummy creamed mushrooms on toast recipe. Earlier this week I discovered some 2-week old eggplants in my [...]