Most of the time when you pick up a cookbook, you have no way of knowing how much you're gonna get out of it. Gorgeous photos, sure, but as you look through, how many of these recipes will you really make? So when you have an opportunity to have a pro put together a dinner…
Pure Food: A Chef’s Handbook for Eating Clean, with Healthy, Delicious Recipes by Kurt Beecher Dammeier
-- 3 and 1/2 stars
**ARC provided by the publisher for review**
Effort to get Americans cooking and eating clean gets a bump this week with the release of Kurt Beecher Dammeier’s latest cookbook, Pure Food.
The…
For years, I've stuck with the same cobbler recipe from America's Test Kitchen. It's basically like having to make buttermilk biscuits in addition to cutting up the fruit and letting it macerate. And while that doesn't seem like a huge amount of work, it's not like I've made that cobbler every summer.
Berries are super abundant…
Linger in Denver, Colorado knows how to do brunch. The food is always fantastic, but maybe more importantly they've got a small, but solid selection of brunch drinks. The coconut gin fizz is the kind of brunch cocktail you could lose a Sunday to, so good you can't stop throwing them back. I'm not usually a big…
Summer is officially here! And along with the beach parties, cookouts and s'mores, it's time to complain about zucchini! Get ready, overzealous gardeners every where are about to start leaving crazy amounts of zucchini on your doorstep. I've never been lucky enough to live next door to someone whose zucchini crop gets out of control every…
I think of Peach Melba as an old school dessert. It's true, the real peach melba dates back to the 1890s, but for me, it dates back to the 1980s when that peach-raspberry combo was my mom's fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt of choice. This week, it's the dessert of choice and the best part is, you can…
Ramen has officially gone mainstream. Target is offering “premium ramen” under its Archer Farms brand in four varieties – pork, beef brisket, mushroom and chicken teriyaki. {Record scratch} Chicken Teriyaki?! The new offerings use “ramen” as an Asian noodle soup catch-all and actually include rice noodles along with the ramen and udon options. If you…
Chorizo is one of those love it-or-hate-it foods. My aunt used to make tacos with half chorizo, half ground beef and the red grease would run out the back of the tortilla and down your arm as you shoved the taco in your mouth. It was glorious. Obviously, I'm in the love it camp, but chorizo…
- Cream of the Crop by Alice Clayton (Hudson Valley Series Book #2)
**ARC provided by the publisher for review**
Let’s just say I’ve had brie on the brain for the last few weeks. Not unlike Natalie Grayson, the heroine in Cream of the Crop (Hudson Valley series book #2).
In Cream…
Ginger ale, club soda, and tonic are your three standard mixers. Coke and 7-up sometimes make appearances, but it's time to take another look the next time you're walking down the soda aisle. There are a slew of new options in craft soda, squarely aimed at the mixology opportunity. Players big and small are getting in…
