Our Share of the Harvest

I love love love runny eggs and they have been BIG on the food scene in the last few years.  Runny eggs on burgers, salads, pasta dishes, you name it.  Sometimes I thin foods are suited to having dripping, underdone, should-be-gross-but-is-delectable yolk gushing out over them and sometimes…not so much.  Because I think runny eggs, [...]

We got snow in October.  OCTOBER!  And, since then, we’ve had just a small dusting.  Lucky for me, I happened to bake for this month’s challenge–a “snow day treat”–on the day we got that dusting.  It was cold and icy and even though I wasn’t the one who had to walk the dog, I wanted [...]

The perfect pizza crust is an elusive animal.  It needs to be kinda crispy on the outside, chewy and soft on the inside, not go limp when sauced and topped and have a pleasing taste that isn’t bland but doesn’t compete with the other ingredients.  Texture is the biggest component for me but Greg likes [...]

My very first experience with food photography wasn’t for the blog or Facebook or even practice shots (uh, have you seen the first few posts?  There was little practice).  No, the first photo I remember taking of food was a plate with a basic split chicken breast, a pile of Lipton’s seasoned rice and some [...]

Cream of Crap.  That’s how condensed cream of whatever soups are jokingly referred to in the foodie world yet these pantry staples end up in lots of tried-and-true recipes.  Not wanting to forgo all of these comfort food recipes just because Campbell’s adds coloring, inexplicable flavorings and MSG to their product, I test-drove a homemade [...]