Archive for January, 2010

Xanthe’s Savory Bread Pudding

Into the oven with you

Today marks the debut of a new type of column, a little something I like to call I’ll Make My Famous…

Every month, I’ll go into somebody’s kitchen and help them prepare their trademark dish - an old family recipe, something they invented themselves, or something they found in a cookbook a long time ago and made it their own.
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It’s All About One Benjamin, Baby

Accept no substitute

There’s too much kitchen crap.

Not that I needed to tell you this.  But I just had my own personal “enough is enough” moment, and it went a little something like this:

I went to a Barnes and Noble where, in a display near the cookbooks, was for sale what appeared to be a solid mass of vomit. As I approached, I realized that it wasn’t vomit at all, but rather (more…)

And Then You Cook It?

This filet may be used as a flotation device

This filet may be used as a flotation device

“Whose bag is this?”

I had to have seen this coming.  It’s not every day the TSA sees a (more…)