This might be the easiest recipe in the history of recipes, but it’s too delicious to not share. Crispy potatoes and savory cheese – how can you go wrong? Make sure you cook the potatoes long enough to achieve the right texture. These go particularly well with roast chicken or grilled steak. Ingredients: 8 medium [...]
I’m so happy that in recent years, the food world has turned it’s attention towards ethnic cuisine more than ever. It’s evident in the cookbooks that are being published and most tellingly, in the ingredients available at the grocery store. A few years ago I would have never been able to find umeboshi, or dried [...]
This cold noodle salad, adapted from Martin Yan’s Culinary Journey Through China, is one of my favorites to make simply for how easy and versatile it is. The noodles and sauce always remain the same, but the vegetables can always be substituted as long as you include a mix of something crunchy and colorful. This [...]
Kale season is upon us, folks, and right now I’m all about warm, nutritious piles of greens to get me through an otherwise colorless winter. Kale is tasty on its own, but with the addition of bacon, it’s elevated into something truly delicious. Throw in a dash of vinegar at the end and you’ve got [...]
If there is one ingredient in particular that signifies fall to me, it’s mushrooms. I love them year round, but come October, I start to use more of them in my cooking than usual, especially the dried kind. And no dried mushroom is arguably more flavorful and more prized than porcini mushrooms. Layered between thin [...]