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 [...]
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, [...]
