With the end of culinary school right around the corner, it is unfortunately time to begin thinking about exams. I will have both an extensive written exam and a lab (cooking) exam to prepare for. An additional requirement for graduation will be something that my school calls a creative practicum. The requirements for this creative [...]
Posts under ‘Home Cooking’
Granola
In an effort to add some variety and new flavors to our daily breakfasts, the wife and I took inspiration from an episode of Good Eats that featured homemade interpretations of power bars and granola. I unfortunately can’t take any credit for this tasty granola recipe, it’s all Alton Brown’s handiwork: here’s a link to [...]
Rice and Beans
Rice and Beans is a dish that means so much to so many different people across so many different cultures. It is the ultimate ‘staple’ dish, the ultimate meal for those on a budget and one of the first ‘super meals’, with the rice and beans together forming a dish that is an excellent source of protein, [...]
Highlights from the West Coast
For the wife and I, much of our life revolves around food. We love food. We love to cook, we love to eat and we love to talk about food, so naturally, whenever we travel somewhere, we always spend a ton of time trying to figure out where and what the locals eat. Upon arriving [...]
Chicken Enchiladas
Enchiladas, a Mexican dish consisting of stuffed tortillas that are generally covered with a flavorful sauce and baked, are a relatively easy and versatile dish to make at home. I’ve made a few different variations of this dish in the home kitchen with a variety of different fillings and I’ve found that the version detailed below has yielded [...]
Thanksgiving Recap
Apologies for being a little slow to recap the Thanksgiving festivities, but the wife and I just got back into town late last night and seeing how I failed to bring a laptop or a camera cable with me, this was the earliest I could get to it. For the second year in a row, [...]
Thanksgiving Prep
Ahh Thanksgiving, is there no better Holiday? It’s the one day out of the year where eating like a complete and total slob is not only expected, but encouraged, as is assuming a horizontal position on the living room floor after dinner, speechless, while blankly staring at the TV watching whoever the hapless Detroit Lions happen to [...]
Japanese Night
Let me just put something out there for you all. I watch a lot of Good Eats. A lot. New episodes, repeat episodes, it doesn’t matter. With new episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations nowhere to be found on my DVR and my beloved New York Jets continuing to make a mockery out of themselves on a weekly basis, [...]
All aboard the ‘local’ bus
Coinciding with my enrollment in culinary school and the wife’s enrollment in business school along with her burgeoning interest in the topic of Sustainability, there has been a drastic change in our eating habits over the last few months. I’m talking about a greater change than just eating-out less often simply because we can’t afford to do so. [...]
H Mart and Korean Night
A few weeks ago, the big news in town was the grand opening of the H Mart in Burlington, MA. H Mart is a New Jersey-based Korean grocery chain with more than 40 locations nationwide. I can only imagine that this one, sprawled out over some 50,000 sq ft has to be one of the [...]
