Everyone loves greasy fried food after a few glasses of wine, and I’m no different. I made an early dinner tonight of fried cod coated in crispy cornmeal after a few afternoon glasses of chardonnay, and my husband and I happily digged into our plates with our bare fingers. The cod was soaked in buttermilk, [...]

Good morning, dear readers! Tonight, I spent hours dithering over minute changes to my brownie recipe. I tested different pans, different oven temperatures, agonized over an increase of 1/4 cup of sugar and decrease of 1/2 tsp in espresso powder. (I am still pondering whether the brownies would benefit from an additional egg in the [...]

Hello, dear readers! I’m afraid you’ll have to wait til this evening for a new food photo. We ate out yesterday–pastries and sweets at Bakery Nouveau, vegetable paella, roast chicken, and cocktails at a fabulous Kim Ricketts event featuring talented local food writers, and then a food/alcohol orgy at Cremant with absinthe, pork belly, french [...]

Every cook has a different recipe for roast chicken–some brine, some truss, some baste, and some do all three. I’ve made roast chicken the same fuss-free way for years: by letting a seasoned chicken air-dry in the fridge for two days. (Most recipes just call for a sprinkle of salt, pepper and herbs before the [...]

My husband and I had a great time at Baconopolis this weekend, and I got recognized by some of my awesome blog readers! (Hello, again!) Baconopolis featured 9 artisan bacons (plus Salumi pancetta, made locally), and 10 dishes that highlighted each bacon. Here I am with the “butterscotch bacon bite” (pork belly glazed with butterscotch [...]

Meatloaf might not be the fanciest (or prettiest) meal to serve, but it’s always been one of our favorite easy weeknight meals. I came up with this healthful turkey meatloaf recipe for the “Something Bold, Something New: Meats, Poultry, and Seafood” section of our cookbook, and my husband declared it even tastier than the ultra-fatty [...]

Here we are making prosciutto, parmesan and sage pinwheels! Maysun was extra excited about cooking last night. She’s also going through a phase where she loves affixing a food to a person’s name–that’s why she’s calling Henry “Pickle Henry”. (She calls her mom “Pizza Mommy” and she calls herself “Pizza Sleeping Beauty Maysun”…how cute is [...]

I had the pleasure of babysitting my favorite little almost-three year old last night, while our friends went to see Leonard Cohen. As soon I walked into her kitchen, Maysun pulled up her step stool up to the counter and said: “Can I cook with you?” We had pizza first, and then we filmed a [...]

Baconopolis is going down tomorrow at the Palace Ballroom. I’m on the wait list to get in…what can I say, I’m a procrastinator. Here’s an herb-crusted, bacon-latticed leg of lamb I made a couple weeks ago. Maybe the bacon gods will see this and grant me a ticket.
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Sassy Radish makes homemade Oreos! (An aside–did you [...]

I tweaked a recipe I wrote for Seattle Magazine last year for the cookbook by making it a little simpler. (I tweaked the cupcake portion of the recipe ever so slightly as well, to get a better rise.) The chocolate cupcake portion of this recipe yields the richest, darkest cupcakes I’ve ever tasted. Whenever I [...]