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I’m not really the baking type — probably because I loathe measuring, I’m ‘meh’ on sweets and flour does all sorts of nasty things to my body. But I love me some peanut butter (seriously, I go through a jar a week) and being snowed in today sort-of made me want to bake. I found [...]

After a recent trip to Pok Pok in New York City, I got really into drinking vinegars. So into them that today I left the office for lunch and bought blueberry balsamic vinegar and mixed it with club soda. It wasn’t quite the sweet, tart elixir I was craving (but I drank it anyway, of [...]

When Emily and I started planning a wedding, I was somewhat out of the loop when it came to the daintier details of the wedding. I didn’t have much say in choice of flowers for the centerpieces, nor was I trusted with the task of selecting the vintage cake holders for the dessert table. However, [...]

With Super Bowl week upon us it’s time to start thinking about how to make people full on Super Bowl Sunday. While I have little stake in the winner of the actual game, I do plan on devoting my day to the patriotic act of eating and drinking myself into a coma. I believe I [...]

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 [...]

Before Thanksgiving shows up and I stuff my face with all things poultry and cranberry, I decided to enjoy the wonderful holiday flavors in tube form. Fresh cranberries are in season, that sage plant my lovely red-haired fiance grew all summer is about to become less accessible when it gets covered in a foot of [...]

While living in the Northwoods of Wisconsin this past summer in a little cabin alongside a lake, I often gazed out across the water and thought to myself: WWPBD? (What would Paul Bunyan do?) I think I answered the question of what Paul Bunyan would eat for breakfast early on a Wednesday morning. Eight days [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]