October 2015

I wish I could tell you these tacos are delicious and leave it at that, but I should probably address the issue of lengua — tongue. Watching hours of Anthony Bourdain and reading more about food convinced Michael and I that we ought to be less discriminating in our meat…

In my final 30 days here on campus, I am embarking on my Final Capstone Picture Essay.  In non photo-j speak, its the culmination of my four year education put into one project.  A picture story focuses on one person, one story, and generally has a complication or some sort…

Hey everyone, time to get all jealous. My mom works at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago as a rep for furniture and home decor vendors (she’s the person who gets all the cool stuff you like in Crate and Barrel from the manufacturers to the store), and because of her…

Fun story about how I acquired my ice cream maker: bored in class one day, I decided to peruse the classified section of the Columbia Missourian, where I work for school. Well just my luck, someone happened to be selling a 4-quart electric ice cream maker for $15. It definitely…

You might not think the taste of an apple crossed with a raw potato sounds very appetizing unless you’ve tried jicama and realized that’s actually a good thing. And if that description doesn’t have you running out to buy jicama now… But seriously, when summer hits, and you’ve banished the…

With so many competitive food shows and critical chefs like Gordon Ramsay on TV, you might start to think that professional kitchens are never pleasant places to be. Well, chef Mike Odette runs a cool kitchen. The executive chef and co-owner of Columbia restaurant Sycamore is a semifinalist for a James…

Sometimes you just want cake. Last week I randomly got an intense craving for cake. Well, maybe one of the 50-or-so food blogs I read had something to do with it. Regardless, I needed get baking. I browsed through my bookmarked recipes and saw the LA Times’ Celestial Chocolate Cake…

When I was home for spring break, I got a few free issues of Edible Los Angeles, a small magazine I believe in its second year. If you’re not in LA, there are several other Edible cities magazines worth checking out. I found an amazing-sounding recipe for shrimp and bacon…

Columbia, Missouri loves its hummus. For good reason, it’s on nearly every menu downtown (the Artisan, Coffee Zone, Main Squeeze, Sycamore, Café Berlin, Forge and Vine, Felini, International Café…) The stuff is delicious, and nearly anything can be dipped in it. Chips, pita, vegetables, index fingers… This roasted red pepper…

This is an incredibly easy but really tasty recipe, as Mark Bittman (author of How to Cook Everything) is known to create. I used red, yellow and green bell pepper, added shredded carrot and red cabbage, and skipped the onion because I didn’t have any. The recipe called for an…