Wasabimon!

Today we have a guest poster! We’ve got two great recipes below from Stephanie O’Dea over at A Year of CrockPotting. Last year, she made a New Years resolution to use her CrockPot every day in 2008 and to keep a blog outlining her adventure. I’ve become horribly addicted to her site, [...]

Here’s another wonderful autumn dish, herbes de provence roasted potatoes and zucchini.
Continuing with my toaster oven love from last week, I’ve been baking, roasting, and toasting things for almost every meal. Being autumn (yes, we do experience a vernal season here in California), the farmer’s markets have been rife with all sorts of wonderful [...]

The maiden voyage: Parmesan Zucchini with Balsamico!
I bought a toaster oven last week, but it’s oooooh so much more than that. I’ve been drooling over the new Cuisinart brick oven even since Eric Ripert launched his Avec Eric site with a series of short videos on how to make quick gourmet meals, using this very [...]

Michael Ruhlman made a post about cast iron pans today, and after reading it, I feel like I should extol the virtues of my own heavy black workhorse. My cast iron pan has been abused (by me, in my less-savvy days) and then reincarnated for a second chance at life. Over the past [...]

Yesterday was my birthday, and in addition to the outpouring of love I received from my friends and family, I was gifted with a few really awesome kitchen accouterments. Check them out!

This recipe started life as an experiment and ended up a staple at our house. My original intention was to create a risotto-like consistency with brown rice in my pressure cooker, and by not rinsing the rice before cooking it, it does indeed get starchier than it normally would. Brown rice will never [...]