One reason for starting the food blog was that I felt it would be tres tres cool to try things I’d never been brave enough to before, or that seemed really difficult but in reality are not. That’s the trickery of the Unknown - it sometimes has us pre-convinced we’re unable to accomplish something. And […]

Hey, it’s us again, the Puff Pastry Committee! I swear to the cooking gods I didn’t intend to get hooked on another puff pastry recipe so soon, but in all honesty I’d seen this idea in a recent Food Network magazine and wanted to make them like crazy, before we became puff-pastry-crazed. And given that […]

Have you ever needed a quick snack or appetizer to serve for friends or at a Holiday get-together, and you took out some cream cheese, slathered some pepper jelly on top and put some crackers alongside the dubious-yet-tasty pile? Don’t lie, you know you have. And if you have (I know you have - hey, […]

Turns out it was a horrible day for food photographing the day we made this. Rain. Lots and lots of it. Little rain, big rain, deluges and fine mists. It went on the entire day and left us with little to none of that natural light we need in my kitchen. Besides, the huge Concord […]