Great minds think alike, don't you agree? My food-writing cohort and friend Nancy Leson spelled out a few days ago--in delicious detail--the steps she (and her husband Mac) uses to turn out perfect whole chicken roasted on the backyard grill. I'd served at home last Saturday night very much the same [...]
Not long ago, a friend emailed asking for some input on knives for his kitchen. He wasn't happy with the last set that he'd bought and wanted to know what brand I might recommend for replacements. I suddenly felt that my "serious foodie" façade might crumble around me. I didn't have [...]
This post proves that one person's culinary curiosity is another person's comfort food. Yesterday I was shopping for lamb shanks at the combo meat/seafood counter my (very) friendly neighborhood grocery store. (I'd tell you what I did with the shanks, but afraid it's for a magazine article later this year, along with [...]
As promised in a post last week, I picked up some sunchokes at the Full Circle Farm stand at the West Seattle Farmers Market Sunday. It follows in the heels of an event I attended where Andrew Stout from Full Circle joked that everyone in the room needed to develop five [...]