July 12th, 2010 | by Jen | published in All, Around the World, Cheese, DIY Food Projects, Delectable Dairy, Weekend Projects
Ricotta, ricotta, ricotta. So versatile, so simple, so delicious when done well, and so awful when done wrong. For most of my life I hated ricotta, thinking it too rubbery and tasteless. That is, until I tried (quote unquote) REAL ricotta. Not the stuff from the grocery store, but the artisan cheese that is traditionally [...]
March 15th, 2010 | by Jen | published in All, Cheese, DIY Food Projects, Delectable Dairy, Fantastic Fruits, Honorable Herbs, Lemon, Thyme
There is no cheese that I enjoy more than high quality, handmade ricotta. For years I poo-poo’d it because all I had ever tasted was the shelf stable, strangely homogeneous, fairly tasteless, mass-produced grocery store variety. And then a few years ago…
June 9th, 2009 | by Jen | published in All, Around the World, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Weekend Projects
When I try to explain what tempeh is to a person who isn’t familiar with it, it never ends up sounding very appetizing… well, it’s cooked, hulled soybeans that have been mixed with a special mold spore and incubated for about 24 hours until a thick layer of white mold grows throughout the beans…
April 15th, 2009 | by Jen | published in All, DIY Food Projects, Fennel, Garlic, Homemade Sausage and Meat Cookery, Honorable Herbs, Sausages, Meats, Succulent Spices, Thyme, Tomatoes, Veritable Vegetables
Sometimes you find an ingredient that just inspires you. Usually for me it’s not something that’s exotic or expensive, but rather something that is of such high quality or is so fresh…
March 31st, 2009 | by Jen | published in All, DIY Food Projects, Most Popular, Succulent Spices, Weekend Projects
Hands down, my favorite breakfast is two soft boiled eggs, a touch of butter, a piece or two of good ham or salami, a nice warm crusty roll or some dense wheat bread, and a cup of strong coffee with real cream…
March 24th, 2009 | by Jen | published in All, Around the World, DIY Food Projects, Succulent Spices
The range of culinary emotions I’ve experienced living here in Germany for the past three months span the whole gamut: rage that I cannot find dried ancho chiles, miso, or beef other than stew meat or flank…
December 2nd, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Around the World, DIY Food Projects, Dill, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Honorable Herbs, Most Popular, Sausages, Meats, Weekend Projects
I can’t believe how easy it is to make gravlax. Or let me rephrase that statement — I can’t believe it’s so easy to make gravlax, and it’s taken me until now to try it!
November 28th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Homemade Sausage and Meat Cookery, Honorable Herbs, Parsley, Sausages, Meats, Veritable Vegetables, Weekend Projects
Somehow I ended up with a large turkey carcass in my refrigerator at the close of yesterday evening. Funny, since Thanksgiving was not at my house, and I was not in charge of cooking the turkey…
November 4th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Cheese, DIY Food Projects, Grand Grains, Homemade Sausage and Meat Cookery, Most Popular, Tomatoes, Veritable Vegetables
Oh. My. God. This is the best pie crust I have ever tasted! So flaky. So moist. And oh the hint of bacon… In preparing for our move to Germany, I have been going through the cupboards…
September 16th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Garlic, Homemade Sausage and Meat Cookery, Honorable Herbs, Most Popular, Orange, Sausages, Meats, Succulent Spices, Thyme, Weekend Projects
A while back, I got the idea in my head that I wanted to make my own sausage. Why? first and foremost, I love good sausage; secondly, I’m *very* picky about my sausage — it needs to be high quality…
Hands down, my favorite breakfast is two soft boiled eggs, a touch of butter, a piece or two of good...
I can't believe how easy it is to make gravlax. Or let me rephrase that statement -- I can't belie...
I was looking out my apartment window the other day when my gaze came to rest on a tree about fiftee...
Oh. My. God. This is the best pie crust I have ever tasted! So flaky. So moist. And oh the hin...
These past few weeks have been particularly busy and challenging for me. I changed jobs, spent two ...
Wilkommen nach Deutschland! Ok, full-disclosure time: I haven't yet made this myself, but I watche...
A while back, I got the idea in my head that I wanted to make my own sausage. Why? first and forem...
I was walking back from lunch the other day with my coworker Fritz, and he (very) jokingly proclaime...
Perhaps you would have chuckled if you saw me leaping into the air, grabbing at bunches of elderberr...
The annual zucchini proliferation is upon us! Last week alone I was given six large zucchini, which...