Category Archives: Cooking Life

3 minutes to bliss

Two ingredients and four steps leads you to chocolate ganache. A few more minutes, you get chocolate truffles.
Simple, no?
Good? We’ll see. The weekend’s almost here and I want to experiment.

Best “How To” I’ve come across in awhile

It came in handy today.
The Butcher Carves a Turkey from the New York Times.
Bookmark it.
Happy Turkey Day!

Mmm. Mmm. Good?

Now here’s a recipe that will make you not want to eat this with your fruit ever again.

Put these shrimp on the barbie

A few weeks ago I picked up some HT shrimp on sale to cook for dinner, but I was tired of the usual steamed version I do with Old Bay and apple cider vinegar. I surfed the ‘net and came across the following post:
Seriously Good: Grilled Shrimp
There was no recipe — even to the usual [...]

Disturbing

Here’s my vote for disturbing product introduction of the week: the Infusion Roaster. You be the judge: infusion roaster or turkey bidet?

As if the photo weren’t troubling enough, add this text, straight from the press release:
Roasting turkey and chicken typically takes a lot of time and often results in dry meat. The Infusion Roaster is [...]

Susan Frohman, the sausage ball queen of Greensboro

It started a couple of years ago. The office holds what’s called “Goodie Day” a couple of weeks before Christmas and people bring in enough junk to keep every kid at my daughters’ school in hog heaven through the new year.
Our buddy, Leger, was always one of our favorites because he supplied both the day [...]