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pressure cookin’!

On June 14, 2011 By

This video is a long time in the mak­ing. After years of hear­ing fears, urban leg­ends and other gen­eral belly aching about pres­sure cook­ers, I decided it was time enough to put this silli­ness to rest and demon­strate how truly easy it is to make awe­some food using a pres­sure cooker. I assure you, I’m […]

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mexi-can– in a flash!

On March 10, 2011 By

Have you ever seen these A Man, A Can, A Plan books? They are basi­cally cook­ing pic­ture books. I feel like call­ing it cook­ing is even a stretch, as they are truly food assem­bly books– a can of this, a box of this and voilà! Dinner!

I used to scoff at them for […]

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by popular vote…

On December 6, 2009 By

You asked and so you shall receive.

Here is the rough recipe for the chick­pea tart that I made for Thanks­giv­ing. This was lit­er­ally “a lit­tle of this, a lit­tle of that”, so please know there is tons of room for interpretation.

Savory Hol­i­day Tart

1 recipe pie crust, minus sugar (I […]

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best. pancakes. ever!

On May 25, 2009 By

That’s quite the claim, I know. But I swear I can back it up.

We are putting the fin­ish­ing touches on episode 2. I hope to have it up by tomor­row night, so stay tuned for that. It will be actual doc­u­men­ta­tion that I do cre­ate food that is not baked. No body dou­bles, I swear. […]

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dinner in a flash

On May 18, 2009 By

Okay, so I promise no posts with straw­ber­ries for awhile.

We are gath­ered here today to cel­e­brate the quick meal. The effort­less menu you can lean on after a long day at work. The din­ner you can throw together in a flash, espe­cially if you’ve planned and have some choice ingre­di­ents ready to go. […]

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2009!

On January 2, 2009 By

Happy New Year!

When I was grow­ing up I couldn’t stand being a kid and I spent most of my ado­les­cence wish­ing it away. I could not wait to grow up, because then life would really start. Time moved for­ward at a crawl’s pace. I remem­ber actu­ally get­ting bored with sum­mer vaca­tion and look­ing forward […]

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