Way back in college, I was introduced to creamy pesto sauce, and promptly adopted it as my in-a-pinch go-to pasta sauce. Creamy pesto sauce had the fresh zing of pesto with the comforting creaminess of an Alfredo sauce, and could transform a simple, inexpensive penne and broccoli dish into something magical. Except that, at $3+ [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Posted on March 23rd, 2010 in bread
I’m a huge fan of corned beef hash. In fact, whenever I wander into Red’s on a Saturday morning afternoon after having had too much fun the previous night, I get excited when I re-remember that corned beef hash is their Saturday specialty. But as I was looking at the heaping pile of leftovers from [...]
I’m going to go ahead and stick my neck out here: Best Chocolate-on-Chocolate Cookie Ever. Can’t decide between making brownies or cookies? These little mounds of crackled-outside, fudgy-inside heaven are the answer to your indecisive sweet tooth’s prayers. Or, at least, they fulfill mine. I’ve had at least a small obsession with most baked goods [...]
Some call these compost cookies, but I just can’t bring myself to do so. A cookie this good just shouldn’t be named after something that conjures the images (and stank) of decaying substances that wind up as fertilizer, even if that cookie is supposed to be comprised of random salty and sweet snacks left over [...]
It’s finally that time. Time for me to unveil the results of a few excited weeks of learning about olive oils of various intensity and brainstorming fun ways to use them, all while recovering from a nasty accident involving an immersion blender and an index finger (but I won’t go into that, except to say [...]
