Mar
08
This is a recipe review, which means this is a recipe that I did not personally come up with, but that I tried out and am giving my opinion on how the recipe turned out. For legal reasons I cannot post these recipes, but I can tell you where you can get them yourself. A …
Jan
12
Whatever there is a party or an occasion in which snacks are laid out on a table, you can bet there will be crackers. What you can also bet the only thing host did to prepare the crackers for their guests was to take them out of the box and onto the plate. Many Americans …
Jan
04
It’s easy to see from my blog that I am a huge Alton Brown fan. So as a huge Alton Brown fan, I cook a lot of his recipes. I decided today to list some of my favorite recipes that I have tried with great success. Clicking on the title of the recipe will take …
Dec
20
Are you tired of the same ordinary pizza pie? If you haven’t tried them before bagels are an excellent way to deliver sauce, cheese, and toppings to your mouth. When I make my pizza bagels I use bagels that I made myself (click here for the recipe for homemade bagels). Once you have your bagels …
Dec
20
The bagel a chewy round piece of bread with a whole in the middle. The bagel has become one of the most popular forms of bread in this country. But how many people make their own, or have even thought about it? Bagels are not the hard to make, and when you make them yourself …
Dec
09
I was at Target a couple weeks back and saw that Nestle had come out with a new bag of morsels for the holiday season. This bag contained some dark chocolate chips and some mint chips. I immediately thought these needed to go into some cookies, so I made some by adapting Alton Brown’s “The …
Nov
11
I tried out a new bread recipe this week. My goal was to make a bread worthy of a sandwhich. But instead I ended up with a flat topped wonder. The bread still had a good taste, but the texture was no longer good pair with my deli ham. So what does one do with …
Oct
05
This is part of a series of posts on tools that have made my life in the kitchen easier and more productive. My friend got me a Slipat for Christmas back in 2008. And it was a very good choice for a gift for me. I never would have gotten it myself. I wouldn’t have wanted …
Welcome to my blog! My name is Eric. I live in Saline, Michigan with my wife (Donna) and two daughters, Hannah (3 1/2) and Autumn (1). I started this blog in October 2009 to share my culinary experiences from making my own food from scratch to what I find at farmer's markets and grocery stores.
