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Through Thomas Keller, all culinary things are possible. With TK’s help (and a blowtorch), I prepared this perfectly pink prime rib roast for Christmas supper. If you follow the recipe, it’s hard to screw up. If you don’t have a blowtorch, go buy a blowtorch. Sure, you could just broil for color, but then you [...]

Really good limoncello is nearly neon–a vibrant lemon-lime color. My homemade paint bucket limoncello looks more like piss. But it drinks just fine–perhaps a little to easily. Enjoy as an after-dinner aperitif, drizzled over pound cake and/or ice cream, or anywhere you’d usually enjoy the bold flavors of lemon and grain alcohol. Ingredients: makes five [...]

As you’ve undoubtedly discerned, I’m not a very good food blogger. This isn’t feigned self-deprecation in the hope of corrective praise. The evidence is abundant: I don’t post very often, take months to try new restaurants (if I try them at all), and eschew deep culinary insight for flippant sarcasm. But what makes me an [...]

For some people this may be an emotionally challenging photograph, especially for supporters of Todd “in absolutely now way related to Jeff” Akin. For that I apologize (especially about the sweet potato). Food phalli aside, this was intended to be a simple sample of fall flavors. Roast a few sweet potatoes and beer brats. Saute sliced [...]

A great beer dinner starts with a great concept, someone probably never said. So after weeks of brainstorming, Kyle and I determined that the follow-up to the first feed me kc beer dinner would be broad yet focused: “Beers from the liquor store, food from the grocery store.” Indeed, we were able to source all [...]

Good news: This recipe is a simple way to celebrate summer vegetables. Bad news: Summer is over and tomatoes (at least the ones that don’t taste like a big, mealy pile of nothingnesss) are gone. If I had posted this on August 8, before Emily and I fell off the face of Planet Blog’n’stuff, you [...]

I make the best fried chicken in the world. Or more accurately, Thomas Keller makes the best fried chicken in the world, and I follow his recipe. I know what some of you are saying, “Nuthin’s better than gran’ma’s fried chik’n.” But I hate to break it to you, it’s just not true, no matter [...]

In Italian, pasta alla puttanesca translates to “pasta in the style of whores.” One story behind this charming name claims that old-timey Italian prostitutes made an aromatic sauce to entice clients (just in case their addled vaginas weren’t doing the trick). Another tale claims that ye olde ladies of the night were too busy  – what with [...]

What would Waldo look like today if the Great Waldo Fire of Twenty Aught Seven had been averted — if that mischievous cow hadn’t kicked over a deep fryer at Kennedy’s, igniting a day-long conflagration consuming a half block of aging retail space? We wouldn’t have the 75th Street Brewery beer garden. We wouldn’t have [...]

There is a time and place for the long-cook tomato sauce, heaped with meatballs and a big buttery slab of garlic bread, but summer is not that time. ‘Tis the season for fresh tomatoes and quick cooking. This recipe is simple and impossible to f-up, unless you buy shitty tomatoes or overcook the pasta. So [...]