It’s the first inaugural Tea-Sty Tuesday Like the name? I made it up myself! As you might have guessed, I have decide to talk about tea every Tuesday, somewhat for the illiteration, but mostly because I really enjoy drinking tea. If that comes as a great shock to you, I wouldn’t be surprised. You have to figure that […]
Year: 2011
Cooking with Chocolate and Chef Jasper Mirabile
Hey everyone, over on Examiner.com, I talk about Chef Jasper’s Chocolate Experience tomorrow. Read and Enjoy!
Valentine’s Day Roundup
Happy Valentine’s Day! Okay, that’s a bit premature, but there aren’t many shopping days left until you need to be armed with the perfect gift and an even perfect-er meal. If you need some amazing meal ideas, let me say that nothing does better than… (Click the link to find out!)
A Tale of Two Em Chamas
The Only Thing Better Than One Em Chamas …is two Em Chamas. (Quick edit: I just found out Em Chamas is doing a special expanded Valentine’s Day with shrimp, lamb, scallops, and free dessert. Just sayin’.) Okay, I know I’m not exactly breaking any huge news, but there are two Em Chamas in what the […]
How to Boil Pasta
How to Boil Pasta By popular request, here is my treatise, my manifesto as it were, on the art of pasta boiling. By the way, this post assumes dried pasta. Boiling (and making) fresh pasta is a wholly separate critter.
How to Make Brown Butter
How to Make Brown Butter Okay, so in yesterday’s post How to Melt Butter, I talked about the fact that for the next several weeks, I am going to concentrate on going over culinary fundamentals. I really want to cover the basics of cooking, and in doing so, equip all the home cooks out there with […]
How to Melt Butter
Melting Butter Okay, so it’s been a while since I’ve blogged steadily. I apologize. I got wrapped up in a new project that should be really cool and really perfect for local food producers, but it also has eaten into my blogging time. (It’s sort of pre-alpha right now.) Fortunately, I’ve had a lot of […]
Restaurant Week Day 1 (and the Obligatory Jasper’s Reference)
Kansas City Restaurant Week… is finally here! And I know what I said yesterday: that I was going to use Kansas City Restaurant Week to try places I’d never been before. But…I just couldn’t resist. I had to go back to 75th Street Brewery for another helping of their amazing duck confit salad. Which I […]
Kansas City Restaurant Week Starts in 3 Hours
…Well, that’s not exactly true. In 3 hours, it will be Friday, but technically most of the restaurants featured in this year’s Kansas City Restaurant Week won’t open for business until 11 or so. So, technically, I guess I have to wait a bit no longer. Which is good, because I can’t wait much longer […]