I live for any holiday that gives me the opportunity to cook foods that I don’t normally try. This year that holiday was Passover. Passover is a Jewish holiday that celebrates Israeli liberation from ancient Egypt and the rule of the Pharaoh (you know the trek that featured Moses parting the Red Sea). Typically the holiday is celebrated by eating unleavened bread. The story behind [...]
My go to wrap of choice has been (and probably always will be) the flour tortilla. There’s just something about that yummy starch roll. It is thin enough to allow the ingredients to shine, unlike a lot of bread based sandwich shells, but it is thick enough to hold everything in place and give your ingredients a nice chewy exclamation point. I know there are a [...]
Remember when I told you about accidentally booking a spring break trip to Denver? Well I enjoyed the fruits of that late night mistake this past weekend. I must say, it was EVERYTHING I expected. First and foremost, it was cold. How cold? Imagine my ex-girlfriend. Now put her on ice and toss her to the bottom of Lake Michigan in December while listening to [...]
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, published in 1918, is the first literary mention of a Parisian sandwich staple called the Croque-Monsieur. Traditionally the Croque-Monsieur, which loosely(or literally, I’m not well versed in the French language) translates to “Mister Crunchy”, is a grilled ham and cheese sandwich with Emmental or Gruyere providing the gooeyness. According to Wikipedia there are a number of other versions including [...]
There is a place where unicorns rest on clouds of soft fluff and Loch Ness Monsters sit submerged inches beneath the surface of coral colored water. Alien children learn telepathic math lessons from their supremely intelligent teachers while knocking bottles of alien juice “accidentally” from their desks. Chupacabras, Skunk Apes and Yetis wrestle harmlessly in green, wildflower covered fields. It is here that Glowing Screens [...]
Big game today (or for some people a big day of watching Gangs of New York, I’ll return when the Eagles return). Super Bowl day also means chili around these parts. This was supposed to be my losing entry in our yearly chili competition at school (can’t compete with sausage and ground beef I guess). Instead it is all for me as the competition was [...]
We interrupt the regularly scheduled broadcast (which is me cracking nut jokes as I make various milks in my new Vitamix) to share this important recipe. It came about because on my last trip to the Asian market I needed some miso. Instead of buying a small container, I opted for the largest one they had. This meant I actually needed to seek out miso [...]
Last weekend when I made a load of pizza crust I never imagined how awesome my week would be. I was able to come home late from work (because of course everything would be scheduled in the same week) and instead of starting the large production I had planned I just popped some pizza crust in the oven, cut some toppings and had dinner in a [...]
I’ve been cooking up a storm this weekend, so I’ll be back with food I actually made in my own kitchen shortly. First I wanted to share about one of the places we ate on our trip north. Usually J-Fur and I use the holidays as a chance to visit family (who always want to cook for us) and hit up some of the local [...]
