Posted in Cooking Tips on Jun 9th, 2011
Cooking chicken, scares the hell out of you doesn’t it? There are so many myths, rumors and so much “scientific data” going around that we can’t help but fear the wrath of chicken. “I don’t want to get salmonella poising!” “If I eat chicken that is not fully cooked I am going to keel over [...]
Posted in Cooking Tips, Recipe, Request on Feb 3rd, 2011
Meatball Parm Sliders Alex, my superfriend/ female counterpart, is currently exploring the world outside of America and is teaching and tutoring in Spain. She met a boy who also calls himself Alex, they hit it off, and now they are dating. That is a whole lot of Alex. But from my experience, you couldn’t possibly [...]
Posted in Cooking Tips, Recipe on Jan 21st, 2011
“You made this from scratch?” is a phrase I often hear people repeating back to me when I share some of my food with them. And while most of what I try to make is “from scratch,” I can’t take all that much credit. After all, “to make an apple pie from scratch, first you [...]
Posted in Cooking Tips on Jan 17th, 2011
Pizza Pizza! I don’t use the microwave all that much these days but there is no denying that it has become a staple in the american diet. And while it is one thing to have to zap fry your food due to a overly busy schedule, sometimes the mic just doesn’t cut it. But from [...]
Posted in Cooking Tips, How To Follow A Recipe, Recipe on Nov 24th, 2010
BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwich with Peach Guacamole, Chipotle Cheese Wiz and Pico De Gallo on a Homemade Crispy Cream Donut. (Featured on This Is Why You’re Fat Today) Brining Turkey seems to be in these past few years, I keep hearing everyone talking about their brine. It must be the Food Network influence that saved [...]
Posted in Cooking Tips, How To Follow A Recipe on Nov 22nd, 2010
Pumpkin Pie Souffle with Cinnamon Whip Cream from EverydayAppetite on Vimeo. This is the part where I am supposed to write my favorite thanksgiving recipes right? Nope. I’ve come to learn a thing or two about recipes, what they are, how they should/can be used, what purpose they serve and so on and so forth. [...]
Posted in Cooking Tips on Nov 19th, 2010
Avocados are magic. They rule the world. The reason that we have them year round is because they do not ripen on the tree so farmers can strategically grow them and keep them around for yearly harvesting. One of the best tricks for avocado use is using it as a substitute for mayonnaise or any [...]
Posted in Cooking Tips, Wise Man Food on Nov 15th, 2010
Roasted Potato and Mushroom Somosas with Avocado Sweet Chili Yogurt Dipping Sauce Holy shit next week is Thanksgiving. That crept up quite quickly… I have been noticing a trend amongst the workers out there in relation to attempting to cook when they get home. It seems that a lot of people don’t have much time [...]
Posted in Cooking Tips on Nov 8th, 2010
My roommates and I started using the word “zip” in reference to just about everything we do and so I wanted to introduce it here before things get confusing. ”Zip it up,” “add a zip to that,” “zipped,” “zip!”- all common ways of using zip. Any time we want to spice something up we tend to [...]
Posted in Cooking Tips, Recipe on Nov 3rd, 2010
Korean BBQ Cheesesteak. We were on the roof last night grilling up a delicious feast when it so obviously hit me; if you prepare for the cold you can enjoy it. Pretend that you are in Alaska if you must, but either way, get in the mindset of enjoying the cold. Why not enjoy it? [...]
