I just finished eating the breakfast pizza I put together this morning from the AT recipe: ricotta, prosciutto, herbs, eggs, and a smattering of leftover pecorino. Delicious. The boyfriend ...

As a (former) production baker, I'm biased- I don't think anything I've ever made has been especially hard to do, but has certainly been time-consuming. I'd never do croissants from scratch at hom...

wunami: I'd say it's useful for anyone buying more than two bottles of wine or liquor at a time and not hopping directly into a car to transport them. And xbklynh8r, how do you carry ...

My freezer is sad and jealous. 1 package Phyllo dough 2 lbs. butter 1/2 pint frozen raspberries 1/2 pint frozen cherries 1 bottle tequila 2 c. hash browns ...

I hope I'm misreading that "halfway through the cooking time (7 minutes)". You can't mean to hard-boil eggs for 14 minutes, can you? I like mine at the 5:30 mark, but for a fully soli...

or, as we do in our home: just have me do it. The bf's eyes water terribly while chopping onions, but I'm somehow impervious. I chop, he stirs.

I'm impressed that he has limited storage and chooses to have both bourbon and whiskey on hand in full-size bottles. Priorities! :)

I've got midterms this coming week, so I've bribed the bf to make his amaaaaazing beef bourgignon on Sunday to keep my strength up for studying. (It's going from 50 degrees today to 10-20 degrees ...

art: I have that stovetop Mukka for cappuccino, and I loooooove it. It's not as strong a cappuccino as I'd make with a big fancy industrial machine, but it's basically hot water and ground e...

I just bought an Oxo stainless steel mug @ Target this week- it claims to be leakproof, and this morning's trip to campus on the bus did not involve any splashing coffee or drips down my forearms. ...

the alsatian tart recipe is linked to the DIY hummus, btw. I've made the prosciutto figs and the rosemary/blue cheese ball in the past for gatherings, so I'm going to go for the whit...

I'll dissent on this one with a resounding UGH: I live down the street from a Skyline and a Gold Star Chili, and I can definitively say that "Ohio Chili" is not chili. It is a gross, watered-down...

cheflaura: we use the store bags for litter because if you scoop a big pile of poop and urine into your trash can, your apartment smells like... poop and urine. I, at least, scoop out the catbox ...

Reading Zora's commercial baking horrorshow reminds me of my (very short-term) commerical baking gig this summer- it ended rather abruptly when, at the end of my third week on the job, the enormous...

Mo, that's disgusting. I think I'll never eat a sugar cookie again. I've never had a real baking disaster (yet), but I was making a flan years ago and after caramelizing the sugar for...

I've finally narrowed down the snacks for tomorrow's cocktail party: gougeres (from Chocolate & Zucchini), mini lamb meatballs, roasted spiced nuts, a smallish charcuterie plate- yay for local but...

I'll simmer a chicken and white bean soup all day Sunday while I catch up on some projects. This will undoubtedly call for bacon, too, which makes me happy. I'll be having a pre-birth...

darcyalaska: I'm using a Chocolate&Zucchini recipe as well- lemon refrigerator cookies with glaze for the bf's parents. Hope they hold up well in the mail!

we're doggedly finishing off the cranberry tart for breakfast- yum. My big project is a rosewater/almond souffle for a friend's birthday on Monday.

since it's just two of us for Thanksgiving, I'm only making two dishes: cipollini & bleu de gex tart (Lucques cookbook) ginger/nutmeg & cranberry tart (Nov 07 Martha Stewart)