Posts from ‘December, 2009’

I wouldn’t go within 18 feet of a mushroom before the age of 20. Now, I can’t get enough of them. They’re delicious raw, irresistible when roasted and unbeatable when sauteed. So when I came across this mushroom appetizer on one of my favorite blogs, I was ecstatic to spruce it up and give it [...]

I’m turning to all of my holiday baking favorites as I count down the last few days before Christmas. From my great grandmother Momoo’s 100-year-old recipe for Peanut Butter Bars to simple classics like Christmas Wreaths, deck the halls with flour and make your home a sugary winter wonderland with my favorite holiday sweets.
Holiday Baking [...]

Let the holiday baking begin! I had all of the ingredients for these Brown Sugar Shortbread cookies in my pantry, so they became the product of a lazy afternoon spent avoiding the 20º temperatures outside. This recipe was adapted from a recent feature I read in The Washington Post about the simplicity of shortbread and [...]

My family kicked it up a notch for this year’s Thanksgiving with dueling turkeys: one deep-fried and one cooked by infrared heat. Needless to say, we’re a competitive group, so while my uncle manned the traditional deep-fried bird, my dad and brother wedged a 16-pound turkey into our 3-in-1 smoker, roaster and grill, also known [...]