Chicharrones Cookies!

For all of you who can’t jam enough pig in your pie-hole, here’s another little treat from the Howells, NE Centennial Cookbook.  I thought this would be a nice treat for my former chef, Ryan Farr, now at the helm of 4505 Meats here in San Francisco.  (N.B. non-Latin, non-bay area residents, follow this link [...]

(Re)cooking with Love

Welcome Back!  After last night’s inspired meal, I had a lot of food left over.  In preparation for my upcoming food coaching life, I wanted to document an example of transforming last night’s dinner, into tonight’s meal.  The additional inspirations come from two places; when I have a whole chicken, I make a stock from [...]

Thank You N.E.C.I. and Chef Louise Duhamel

Tonight’s dinner was a lot of fun.  Every once in a while, I think; ‘God, do you really remember how to cook.  I mean, you’re not cooking as much as you used to.  Can you still make it work?’  In moments like this I fall back on techniques or dishes that I really love pulling [...]

Midwest…Fusion?

This should be a treat.  Last Saturday night my housemate (raised in Kansas, but groomed around the country) asked for “something Midwestern” for dinner.  Being from Nebraska myself, we didn’t need to iron out what that statement meant before shopping.  [If you like to make the Midwest the butt of jokes, please kindly skip the [...]

Mexicalian

Motivation – After my first intake sessions with “Bebe”, I helped put together a corn salad for her girls’ night.  That salad was good!  I was thinking about it again when I was shopping for groceries, so I took that as a sign.  It was such a gorgeous day here today, that I really wanted [...]