feed me kc

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The inaugural, and inevitably final, feed me kc “End Times Tomato Extravabonanza” continued this weekend with another wallet-busting trip to the farmers’ market ($45 in tomatoes, please) and gin-fueled evenings in the kitchen. Saturday I was craving scallops — something that has rarely occurred after I made myself sick on undercooked frozen Costco scallops in [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, my Italian is a wee bit weak. But I’m pretty sure panzanella translates to “delicious f-ing summer bread salad”–pane being Italian for “bread” and zanella translating to “delicious f-ing summer salad.” Or something like that. Make this salad while you still can (while tomatoes are in season), and then stop making [...]