(Banana tart with soybean praline base, enrobed with banana chocolate sauce) Nuts, especially peanuts and walnuts, are lethal for my oldest child. They are also delicious, found in many of the desserts that make life worth living, and are almost impossible to simulate. I do not like peanut butter, don’t miss it, but I have...

I wasn’t necessarily raised on transcendent biscuits, we had patacones and arepas instead. My mom, who is from Illinois and from a family of Illinois corn, soybean, and pig farmers who came from the hills of Kentucky ages ago (and I don’t know where before that), would talk about the delicious food her grandma cooked...

I apologize for not posting much this last week. Its been rather hectic! To broaden my photographic learning experience, I am the second shooter in a few weddings this summer with this fantastic guy Rob Brown, his site is Rob Brown Photography in case you need the friendliest wedding photographer in New England. I am...

Hmmmm, chocolate. It’s likely something we all take for granted. You might think that the definition of chocolate is an inherent thing and you might think that when you go to the store and when you buy something that is called chocolate that it would, indeed, BE chocolate. For the most part, that is what...

(Chocolate Coconut Hedgie Cookies) I am a super bad mom, I really am. Once the caffeine hit the system this morning I jumped up and baked these cookies (the dough was in the fridge overnight). The bad part is that we essentially had these for breakfast. We are going to have a second course of...

[This post appeared on the Paper Palate blog, a member of the Well Fed Network] (Source: Hoffman Media, click image to go to magazine order page) I watch only a few shows on the Food Network, two of those being Alton Brown‘s “Good Eats” and Paula Deen‘s “Home Cooking“. I do not watch the “Paula’s...

Do you remember the Flying Lizards and their awesome 1979 song “Money (Thats what I want)“? Yeah, thats only 28 freaking years ago (picking sad self up off the floor). I was singing that song after we bought some recent lottery tickets. I am sad to say that I didn’t win the $390 million lottery....

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(Xanthan Gum. Chemical model graphic used with permission from Dr. Martin Chaplin of the London South Bank University, London, UK) Molecular Gastronomy plays with established food identities to challenge the semiotics of food. It explores the use of chemicals and processes previously the domain of high-throughput industrial food producers and food scientists to deliver non-intuitive...

Some interesting news about Ingrid Hoffman, the Colombian star of the Delicioso TV food show that I first learned about from Elaine at Latina Viva. The Food Network has signed Hoffman to a multi-year contract to do a cooking show that certainly will explore Colombian Cooking. (See the press release here – its a PDF)...