When I was in New Orleans last September I ate at a wonderful restaurant called Herbsaint. I decided to let the bartender choose my first drink by asking him, "If I'm only going to have one drink in this town, and that drink is going to be in this bar, what should I have?" His answer was ...

I have been wanting to make this cake for a while now, it just sounds so interesting. Olive oil in a cake? One time when I was in high school a friend of mine and I wanted to make chocolate chip cookies but we didn't have any regular vegetable or canola oil. We did have olive oil however, ...

These ingredients, being perishable, require more contemplation than the others, which you'll almost certainly have a chance to use before they go bad. If you don't use eggs often, you can buy them by the half dozen. With milk, you ...

Here's a cross post of my latest blog entry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK, there are certain foods that I just can't stand. I hate Lima beans; I hate chickpeas; ...

I haven't been doing much kitchen and food wise lately. In fact I've been sticking to my staples of take out... Arezmendi, Bake Sale Betty's, and (not take out) grilled cheese.Although I did make a really tasty summer pasta dish the ...

This is a cross post of the latest entry to my personal food blog, http://www.crabbycook.com.  Enjoy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

I know I skipped a week but I haven't given up on the updates.  In fact part of the reason I didn't post week 3 is that I was busy adding a few things to the garden. We had the snap peas in little starter pots inside, out of the unpredictable ...

OK, so its a little better then watching the grass grow.  I'm actually pretty impressed with the progress.  Things are really leafing out. Because its a slow process I decided to make things a little more interesting by ...