I have entered this post into the annual Bon Appetit Holiday Dessert Bake-Off and I would be deeply thankful if you would follow THIS LINK and vote for my entry! I have been fretting over this post for DAYS. I have been conceptualizing, racking my culinary brains, wondering if this...

Does the idea of mixing pomegranate juice with iced coffee make your eyes bug out like the cute little lamby slippers above? POM has done this craaazy thing with their POM iced coffees. .. (click for more)...

When I went to see Sandor Ellix Katz speak about Wild Fermentation (Sandor Ellix Katz and the Wild among us) I heard him mention that he was getting into wild fermented meats. This reminded me of my childhood when we would make Colombian fermented sausages called salchichas or chorizos. I...

(This is a compensated review from BlogHer and Samsung Home Appliances) [This contest is now CLOSED. Please click here to see who the winner was.] At the end of this post I will share with you how you can win a $200 gift certificate from BestBuy! You will see that...

If you choose to delve deeply enough, you will find a food-atarian of every sort out there! If you are a foodie, you like know most of the sorts, I dont need to get pedantic about it. Amongst the various types of -tarianisms that I play with, the one that...

Some time ago I reviewed a cookbook called “Tassajara Cookbook: Lunches, Picnics, and Appetizers” by Karla Oliveira where I covered Tassajara, a magical mountain retreat for the San Francisco Zen Center. Today’s review covers the related book Tassajara Dinners & Desserts by Dale and Melissa Kent, a beautiful and delicious...

Some time ago I had the great fortune to meet Dan Estridge on the web and then at a Dole & Bailey event up in New Hampshire (see my blog post from that event: Cross Species Portraiture: The Chicken was a Star). I can tell you at least one thing...

In my garden (Humble Garden) I grew soybeans this year. They are open pollinated non-genetically modified and organically grown. They have been fascinating to grow and have been a continual homeschool lesson for the kids. Sprouting Growing Almost blooming on the top. But wait, thats not the only place! Fuzzy,...

I had the most brilliant Sunday at the Canning-Across-America Canvolution event with a group of people who were so fantastic and so interesting I didn’t want to leave. But we worked so hard canning so many things and the kitchen was such a BEAST that by the time that things...

In concert with the Can Around the Nation canning event this weekend (see this post for more details Join the Canvolution!) in Somerville, MA where I will be teaching pressure canning, I am sharing a review of a cookbook I received on putting up food! The cookbook is called Putting...