Grilled Eggplant with Fresh Arrabiata In the course of planning an Italian-oriented meal, it occurred to me that an arrabiata sauce has mostly the same…
Just goofing off… what happens if you glue a cherry tomato to a cherry? In this case a Sun Gold tomato and a Rainier cherry.…
We’ve got some beautiful end-of-summer produce right now, including items that we’ll only see for a few short weeks. Zucchini blossoms seem to be at…
Arancini Di Riso Arancini. “Little oranges”. Only these guys aren’t quite so healthy as a piece of citrus. They are actually balls of risotto, stuffed…
The general idea for this lightly cooked zucchini carpaccio came from Paul Bertolli’s magnificient Cooking by Hand, which I’ve reviewed here. I was looking…
Pan-Roasted Tomatillo Salsa Verde Green tomatillo salsa, aka salsa verde. Most people are familiar with it, but never make it. We think it only comes…
Raspberry-Blueberry Buckle A long time ago (the late nineties) in a galaxy far, far away (Milwaukee), I used to play a lot of pool. One…
Cheese Battered Onion Rings and Stout Chocolate Malt I don’t eat onion rings nearly enough, considering how much I love them. I guess I’m eating…
Only worth doing if you have a garden, or at least farmer’s market produce from today. Super simple but a pretty amazing pop of gazpacho-like…
On the way home from the farmer’s market, Sarina and I joked that I wouldn’t be able to resist playing with the molecular gastronomy toys,…