Full Gastronomic Tilt

It was my friend Dan who enlightened me to the difference between short ribs and spare ribs. One blustery night last fall, he called excitedly - he was Braising! Short Ribs! Dinner that night would represent a pinnacle of achievement in terms of the taste : effort ratio.
As he continued on about the ease [...]

I stumbled on this recipe while flipping though a friend’s copy of Bon Appetit. It caught my eye because of the ras-el-hanout, which I am still trying to use. This dish has a…simple elegance to it. The sauce is a little sweet, a little tangy, a little rich, a little ‘what’s that?’ - not too [...]

Depending on who you ask, Twitter is either the next hot thing or so yesterday. An annoyance, or the thing that renders you unable to remember life before it came along. I fall guiltily, almost accidentally, into the latter camp.
It began innocently enough, when a particularly NET-worked friend of mine kept poking [...]

EDtF, Day 2.
After the ease of Monday evening, I was lulled into a false sense of complacency.
Recently gifted with two 1 ½ pound parcels of freshly butchered deer meat (this is Western North Carolina and therefore not an uncommon occurrence) I was confident that now was the time to use it.
I have ideas! [...]

I love soup. Though I’ve been known to make a huge pot of soup in the middle of July (in my sweltering, non-air-conditioned kitchen), winter is soup’s time to shine. Soup has countless variations, is simple to prepare, tasty, nourishing and a comfort on cold nights.
So when my friend Devon said that she was [...]