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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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 [...]
February has been a crazy and wonderful month for us. Earlier in the month, my wife and I developed a strong desire to bake something new. My project was cake, and that’s the subject of another post. My wife’s project was chocolate chip cookies. There’s nothing better than a good chocolate chip cookie, but I [...]
As a cooking hobbyist, saying ”I love America’s Test Kitchen” is about as controversial as saying “I love the sun.” I get it, I know. I just have to rave about one of their cookbooks, which I have recently found myself cooking recipes from every other day.
In December, my wife and I were shopping at [...]
