Food Hackery

I’m a big fan of lamb but it is pricey and often ends up being poorly prepared. The classic error that people make when preparing lamb is overcooking it. The result of this is that the meat ends up being dried out. In order to make the most of your lamb, you should make sure […]

As is pretty typically for us, my spouse and I were on our own for Thanksgiving. This has never stopped us from making good food though. This year because we’d had turkey earlier in the month, we decided to have ham for Thanksgiving. With this we decided to pair a few favorites: Roasted garlic fingerling […]

The lemon saga continues…. I’ve previously mention the crazy number of lemons my bush produced this year. So far I’ve made a bevy of desserts lemon meringue pie, lemon tart, lemon bars, lemon jam. We can only eat so many desserts in our house though. So I’ve been considering what other recipes I can make […]

Fall has arrived here in Houston and that means soup season is back. This week I decided to make an old favorite – Potato Leek Soup. The biggest challenging with this soup is making sure the leeks are good and clean. The best way to do this is to slice them up and soak in […]

One of the most difficult things about liking to cook is being your own worst critic. I’m a bit of a perfectionist in most things I do and cooking certainly isn’t an exception. I want things to come out “just so” and I hate when a recipe fails but even more when something I make […]

[singlepic id=258 w=320 h=240 float=right] Tonight I decided to use some of the lemons from my thorny lemon bush to make Lemon Pepper Pork Kabobs. Often people use a dried mix to add lemon pepper flavor. I have a nice dried lemon pepper blend from Penzeys Spices that I like to use on fish. However, […]

So a co-worker gave me a bunch of habaneros when I was in OH last week. When he said, “hey do you want some habanero peppers” I had no idea WTH I was getting into saying “sure”. These peppers were freakishly large – double the size of a normal habanero. Even more frightening was the […]

This might seem like an incredibly simple thing to make but really good popcorn can be quite difficult to make. As a child, popcorn was a special treat that I had when my brother and I went to stay with my grandparents overnight. Gram would always make dinner for us. But after dinner Pa would […]

This week the Muy Bueno cookbook arrived in my mailbox. I’ve been following the author’s blog for a while and have been waiting for the actual cookbook with much excitement. When it arrived I immediately dug in and started reading it cover to cover. There are so many things I like about it but perhaps […]

My fall CSA boxes started arriving this week and I’ve still got squash from the summer CSA boxes to use up. In order to make room for the new stuff that started showing up on Thursday I decide to make a nice fall squash bread last weekend. Last year at the holidays I made this […]