As a food photographer, I often end up with leftover ingredients from shoots and sometimes it’s hard to figure out what to do with them. In cases like this I usually turn to my electronic copy of How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman (which is available at the app store). I use this app [...]
Things have been pretty busy around the studio lately, and I’ve been eating more than my share of frozen burritos simply because I haven’t had the time to cook anything decent. Well, to be honest, it’s more about not having the time to go buy ingredients, so I end up eating whatever I have on [...]
I know, I know, another cookie recipe. But this one isn’t as much a cookie recipe as it is a power-bar-health-nut kinda recipe. Sure it has two kinds of sugar … ok, three kinds if you count the honey, but the rest of the ingredients are pretty healthy. Or so I’m led to believe reading [...]
I’ve had the ingredients for these cookies lying around for some time now because after reading the original recipe I had the full intention of getting on my inner Jackson Pollock. What do you think? I’m thinking they look pretty damn good. Call up my agent, I see a cookie gallery show in SoHo in [...]
Each year, my pal Kelly over at BarbaricGulp has an anti-Valentine’s day party. The idea is to bring something that would never show up at a romantic dinner – the more garlicky, spicey, date-ending the better. I always have trouble picking out dishes that are appropriately themed the bring, so this year I decided I [...]
When I’m busy, I rarely get the time to cook as much as I would like (as you can tell by the sparse posts as of late). This is in part because I rarely get out the shops to buy food. I end up eating a weird conglomerate of leftover ingredients from shoots and whatever [...]
So you’re supposed to bring dessert to a dinner on Wednesday, so you whip up a really tasty apple and maple syrup bread pudding using leftover potato rolls from Thanksgiving a day early just so you’re ready. Except that it turns out it was Monday when you made the bread pudding instead of Tuesday because [...]
You know what is awesome? Bacon. You know how to make bacon even more awesome? Add it into everything you ever cook. I’m joking of course, because I’m sure that you already put bacon in everything. Bacon milkshake? Yes please! My buddy Kelly has been bringing her version of bacon jam to a lot of [...]
Since I moved to St. Louis (nearly two years ago – wow) there is one habit that I have picked up: buying in bulk. In New York you have to only buy the exact amount of stuff you need at any given time because you have no place to store anything in your tiny 400 [...]
For the past year or so, my friends and neighbors at our old loft building get together for a casual dinner on Wednesday nights. Dr. Fiance and I have continued to attend even though we have moved out of the building. Every month or so, we host loft dinner on the road, so to speak, [...]