Secrets to Super Simple Meals
Chocolate and dulce de leche. I don’t even have to say much more to convince anyone this is a great idea, but I’ll get a little more specific: Three layers of dark chocolate cake loaded with thick Argentine dulce de leche that permeates what had been an extra springy cake,…
Missouri is very capricious when it comes to weather, so we relish every warm, sunny day we get. For us, that means barbecuing. Well, when Missouri graced us with nearly a week of sunshine we grew tired of burgers, brats and Italian sausage. To mix things up one evening, we…
Saffron, cardamom, honey, pistachios and pomegranate seeds mixed with yogurt? Yoplait is a long way from ever putting out this flavor. As I ate this for breakfast, I thought of how rarely I, and other Americans, eat sweets so…floral. In the Middle East and South Asia, saffron and rosewater are…
Coffee, olives and mustard seeds…all too bitter. I wasn’t too picky of an eater as a kid, but I did have an aversion to onions, green bell pepper, tomato, beets and a few other things that I have since grown to love. There are some foods, though, that no matter…
This is generally what music plays in our kitchen while we cook (and clean), it rotates depending on the mood and what we’re into lately. Michael I’m a big fan of music I can just groove to, no need to sing along when cooking, or doing dishes, (I think it…
Several weeks ago (just before I got a job and still had time to do these sorts of things on a Tuesday afternoon, let alone write about them in a timely fashion), I went to a cooking demonstration by two stars of Bravo’s Chef Academy: Suzanne Winn and Leo Goodloe….
Have you ever had something disappear into the abyss of the internet? That’s what happened to this Moroccan bread recipe. You’d think I’d be less likely to find a recipe on paper…especially since I’m known to scrawl information on magazine inserts or any scrap I can find…but there it was:…
(This is my friend Mike’s first post on He Cooks, She Cooks. Let him know how much you enjoyed it.) Fried pickles are one of my favorite deep fried foods. They’re kind of a mess, but pretty easy to make. They’re crispy on the outside, a little soft on the…
A “He Cooks” post from my friend Mike, who introduced himself last week with Fried Beer-Battered Pickles. After seeing Brittany’s squash soup post, I decided to make one myself. I thought the distinctive flavor of five spice would go great with the sweetness of the squash. (Five spice is a…
A “He Cooks” post from my friend Mike, who goes a little more traditional after sharing his Fried Beer-Battered Pickles and Five Spice Squash Soup recipes. This is one of my absolute favorite winter meals. The hot chicken and root-vegetable filling is hearty and warming on a snowy day. There…