Every weekend I bake a batch of muffins. I find it tremendously comforting to have some baked goods in the house at all times; it gives me that domestic goddess feeling, and I quite like the idea of owning up to that image of the happy homemaker who cooks and bakes from scratch for the […]
Roast Chicken (Notes for my daughter)
Hardly a week goes by without me roasting a chicken in the oven. For me, roast chicken is the ultimate comfort meal. One bite takes me back to the immediately soothing and familiar taste of my mom’s roast chicken, and provides me with a lifetime of memories at the tip of my fork. There is […]
Bloody Caeasars
Well, as the old saying goes, it’s five o’clock somewhere, right? Time for a drink. Especially after I asked Meat and Tater Man to help me out in the kitchen with the dinner prep. An extra set of hands in the kitchen quickly turned into a conversation on how we have too many lids for […]
Nobu’s Teriyaki Chicken
You would think that someone who has over 500 cookbooks could come up with at least a dozen recipes for boneless, skinless chicken thighs at the snap of a finger, but today, I drew a complete blank. What to do, what to do, with these little pink mounds of flesh staring blankly back at me […]
Pork Tenderloin Sandwich
“This is trashy Midwestern eating at its finest. You could be on a back road goin’ nowhere, comin’ from nowhere, and haven’t even been anywhere, when all of a sudden you would come upon a roadside dive selling this tenderloin sandwich that was so big and so divine, you’d give up your virginity and your […]