Secrets to Super Simple Meals
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…
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…
With a big bunch of spinach wilting in the fridge, I went to Gourmet.com and sifted through a few pages of search results before I found this Vegetable Soup with Basil and Garlic Sauce. It couldn’t have been more perfect. The first ingredient was fennel bulb, which is something I’ve…
I wish I could call it my secret ingredient, but I’ve never been able to keep my own secrets. I put ground cardamom in most things I bake. Pumpkin chocolate chip cake, oatmeal cookies, carrot cake, granola… Then I found a recipe where the cardamom would be far from hidden….
I first had sour cream ice cream 7 years ago at Prune in NYC. It came with a molten chocolate cake and was surprisingly delicious. So when I got an ice cream maker and started looking for flavor ideas, I didn’t hesitate to bookmark Gale Gand’s sour cream ice cream…