Introducing….IRISH BROWN BREAD! My excitement over this seemingly simply breakfast staple comes from the fact that my daydreaming about brown bread sparked the idea for this project, and therefore I had to do my best to get it right. As with any recipe, there…
Can you imagine that there is a food so ridiculously named as to have both “fluff” and “nut” in the same moniker? Well, I bring you the classic fluffernutter sandwich!
I killed a lobster. I killed a lobster making this deliciously creamy New England Lobster Chowder.
When I set off to make it, I knew this would happen. I read the instructions. However, I forgot that I actually had to do it. When it came time to complete step 1 (see below), I screamed like a pre-teen girl and stumbled backwards into the garbage can. It wasn’t exactly the lobster scene in “Julie and Julia,” but comparable. I’m not sure how I expected to react, but frankly, I expected more of myself. I mean, I’ve climbed Everest (sorta)! I survived Hurricane Katrina (sorta)! Surely I could cook a lobster like a pro.
Sweet home, Chicago. A classic one-pot meal, and a classic Chicago dish: Chicken Vesuvio.
There’s a chocolate shop that I pass daily on my walk to work and the smell of freshly baked croissants hits me in the face every morning, taunting me, as if saying, “Come eat my buttery goodness!” That calling is the inspiration for today’s breakfast – a cinnamon sugar coffee cake.
When I think of a dessert that is quintessentially Midwestern, or All-American for that matter, I can’t help but picture apple pie. It invokes a wholesome, Richie Cunningham (yeah, I watched Happy Days…so?), from-the-farm image. Because of this, I thought it was the most obvious…
Here we go, cyberspace I’ve kicked off my virtual culinary journey around the world with Italian-style meatloaf.
