It’s funny how tastes change — when I was a kid, I used to hate wild rice (I thought of it as “funny rice,” and I don’t mean funny in a good way), but now it’s one of my favorites. Granted, what we see called “wild” rice is actually a cultivated variety grown in California; [...]
I don’t have many fancy gadgets in the kitchen — sous-vide cooking and flavored foams just seem like too much work to me — but I consider my ice cream maker to be an indispensable culinary aid. Ditto for my blender. If you have those two kitchen helpers, making ice cream becomes ridiculously easy. Not [...]
How can you tell if someone is a professional recipe developer? If they have a freezer full of cranberries from May to September. That’s because we have to work four to five months ahead to be seasonal when magazines hit the newsstands, which means we’re always in season out of season. Hence cranberries on hand [...]
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It might be cheating to recommend one of your own recipes by saying, “Hey, my mom liked it!”, but when you’ve baked hundreds of things over the years (possibly thousands) and your mom tells you that your berry pie is the best thing you’ve ever baked, you tend to want to shout it from the [...]
Whenever I indulge in grocery shopping (for a foodie like me, doing so really is an indulgence and not a chore), I like to talk to random strangers: fellow shoppers, butchers, cheese mongers, the store employees who are arranging the fresh produce, the ones who are doing cooking demos and taste offerings. You never know [...]
With its mixture of ground flaxseed and almonds, this moist, tart-but-sweet pumpkin bread makes a nutritious and filling breakfast. It can also become a tasty dessert if it’s topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of honey. If you’d like to give a gift loaf to a friend, mix 2 tablespoons [...]
What other fruit is made into sauce, juice, chutney, relish…and is equally delicious served alongside chicken or in a chocolate cake? Not only are cranberries one of the few fruits native to the U.S., they’re also amongst our most-consumed. I like to slip them into baked goods: pumpkin bread, blueberry muffins, and brownies become even [...]
