feed me kc

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today is the first full day of summer. That has me thinking about ice cream. Next week is the first week Kansas City will be blessed with the opening of Port Fonda, the restaurant. That has me thinking about horchata. For those not in the know, horchata is a nutty rice drink served in Mexico [...]

After yesterday’s scape fail, I decided to follow a tried-and-true method for preparing what I had left of my solitary gifted garlic scape: sautéing. Sort of. I made an onion and garlic scape compote. Sort of. Here’s how: I melted about a tablespoon of butter in a sauce pan over low heat. Once melted, I [...]

This weekend marks the beginning of summer. Pools open up, the temperature is creeping up, and people all over the country are taking out their grills and firing them up. For me, the 2012 grilling season began on January 1st, but this is the time of year when I get a little more experimental in [...]