A Recipe Blog
Love Thanksgiving? How about homemade popcorn? Head over to SheKnows to get my recipes for pumpkin caramel popcorn, brown butter sage popcorn (my favorite), and gingerbread popcorn! These treats are perfect with a movie or served as a holiday appetizer.
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As you’re reading this I may or may not have power (thank goodness for auto-scheduling!) Is Hurricane Sandy as big of a mess as the weather people are predicting? We’ll find out soon enough. Jeff, Sofi and I are stocked up with emergency booze, emergency board games, emergency candy and of course emergency cat food. Yes yes we also have batteries and what not.
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I thought I would take a moment to share some photos of my my cat with you. This isn’t entirely random; there’s a connection between Sofi and sweet potato biscuits, if you can believe it. The truth is, I don’t think it’s possible to have more stupid nicknames for a cat than Jeff and I have managed to come up with over the years. But my favorite nickname for her has always been Sweet Potato (followed closely by Pumpernickel). Good morning, Sweet Potato! Come here my little sweet potato. It just sounds so endearing, doesn’t it? Taking hilarious photos of Sofi the Sweet Potato is one of my many hobbies when I’m not taking photos of food.
I’ve never been a big fan of The Food Network. It has a few great shows (Chopped, Barefoot Contessa, Good Eats) but most of the cooking shows don’t interest me. On the other hand, I adore PBS. For the longest time I had no idea PBS even had cooking shows. I associated it with Sesame Street and… I’m not sure what else. But it actually has a tremendous amount of food programming, both old and new. You can watch Éric Ripert, José Andrés, Ming Tsai, the experts from America’s Test Kitchen and my favorite: archive shows from Julia Child and Jacques Pépin. Aside from the fact that they’re both adorable, I love watching their classic French technique. It’s how I was trained in culinary school yet I tend to shy away from French cuisine (probably because of over-saturation). But I could watch them for hours. And it’s usually after I watch them that I find myself returning to the classics. [Read more...]
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I came home from Sunday’s farmer’s market with an abundance of corn and blueberries. After making some tasty spicy maple corn fritters, I looked at my ingredients and wondered what was next. I’ve seen a lot of recipes online for sweet corn muffins as well as blueberry muffins and I thought why not combine the two? Would fresh corn and blueberries actually work together? There was only one way to find out.
For inspiration I turned to baking expert Dorie Greenspan and she did not disappoint! These muffins are incredibly moist and light (dense muffins are a pet peeve of mine). The fresh corn adds a nice texture and the tart, sweet blueberries go quite well with the cornmeal.
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