Strawberries are in season, and they are sweet, cheap (relatively speaking), and plentiful. One elegant and deceptively simple spring and summer dessert is chocolate covered strawberries. It’s nice enough to serve to company but it only takes a few minutes to make. Plus, they look fantastic, whether they are on their own, or served alongside [...]
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It should be easy to make hard boiled eggs. You just take eggs, dump them in water, and boil them. The trouble is, every time I’ve made them before—even using the correct method, which I will outline below—I overcook them. The telltale sign of overcooking hard-boiled eggs is a green coating around the yolk, which [...]
This is what I made for dinner tonight. It was surprisingly good.
For most of my life, I only topped homemade pasta with tomato sauce. Sure, I’d had alfredo and garlic sauces while out at restaurants, but I thought that making those white sauces at home was out of my league. More recently, after learning the [...]
On New Years Day, Allyson and I cooked dinner with her parents, in their kitchen, which was highly unsual and a lot of fun. We planned to cook a simple dinner of chicken, sweet potatoes, and broccoli, mostly to show them how best to use the cast iron skillet and super sharp chef’s knife that [...]
I’ve always known about sweet potatoes, but I never really liked them until a few months ago. In my family, sweet potatoes are served with cinnamon, sugar, and topped with marshmallows, and only come out on Thanksgiving, if then. My wife really loves them, and got me excited to try them again, with a simpler, [...]
I had Thanksgiving with my in-laws for the first time this year, and thought that I would impress them with a rich, fancy side dish. I thought it would be fun to make sweet potatoes, but to do them a little differently than usual. Thus: a sweet potato gratin. It came out creamy and cheesy, [...]
This is my favorite way to cook fish. It’s pretty easy, straightforward, and very tasty. The topping makes it a lot more special than just plain fish and
This recipe consists of two main elements: the fish (obviously), and a stuffing-like topping. I use its general outline to cook all sorts of fish. Salmon and cod [...]
A few years ago, soon after I started my current job, I was introduced to the concept of team dinners. Being a virtual employee means that I’m either on the road or working from home, and I only work with a small subset of my group at any time. To counteract this lack of contact, [...]
I often say that eggnog was the first thing I ever cooked. That’s not quite true. Alton Brown’s raw eggnog recipe sparked my desire to cook well, and to really understand the science and the techniques behind good cooking. Chili isn’t the first thing I cooked, either, but it is the first recipe I made [...]
