MADE: Serious Eats’ Kung Pao Chicken

Good Chinese takeout is one of those things you take for granted if you live in a big city. Sweet and sour pork, almond chicken and beef and broccoli are just a phone call away. Move out to the 'burbs and you may only have one or two choices, including Panda Express. Luckily, there's Serious…

ByMichelleMarch 10, 20160Comments

The Foundations of Good Pizza

A friend of mine worked in a department store, typically in women’s clothing, and that's how I learned the polite way to refer to women’s undergarments was not lingerie, not underwear, not panties, but foundations. Because let’s face it, if you’ve got ill-fitting undergarments on, regardless of your body type or what you look like naked,…

ByMichelleJuly 17, 20150Comments

Cooking Recipes

Ginger Chicken Hot Pot w/ Rice Cakes

There’s a critical step that often gets missed in this whole reading food blogs thing. Observe: Step 1: Ooh, I really want to make something with potatoes. Step 2: Google potato recipes Step 3: Scroll past the text and ogle hasselbeck potatoes, stuffed potato skins, potato salad, tater tots, hash browns, etc. Step 4: Read recipes Step 5: Possibly comment “Ooh, looks yummy.” Alternatively, pin recipes to your “Yummy Potatoes” Pinterest board. Step 6: The End. What’s missing here?

ByMichelleJanuary 11, 20142Comments

Main Course Pizza Recipes

Be My (Pizza Spinaci) Valentine

Every Rom-Com, every book, every platitude says when you meet “The One,” you’ll just know. We didn’t lock eyes in a crowded airport terminal or pass each other on a train platform or have an awkward conversation about the weather in biology lab. We met on the Internet. And it’s like….magic. I have fallen completely, utterly and irrevocably in love. We are M-F-E-O (made for each other). My husband? What? No, I met him in a bar. I’m talking about the Baking Steel.

ByMichelleFebruary 13, 20136Comments