The great thing about making peanut butter cups from scratch is that you can use any kind of chocolate you like, and any kind of nut butter, too. It’s fairly easy to make lots of really delicious peanut butter cups. We’re talking light-years better than Reese’s. The bad thing is, they’re really, really good. Think [...]
October is unprocessed month. A group of bloggers, headed up by Andrew Wilder at Eating Rules, are eating only unprocessed foods for the month of October. I’m late to the party… well, really, I’m not attending this party, but I wanted to share it because I think it’s a very cool idea. I particularly like [...]
Everyone is writing about homemade tomato sauce this time of year. I wrote about it this time last year, too. I won’t bore you with the same story again, though. I made tomato sauce on a whim the other day, mostly to try out two new ideas that were kicking around in my brain, things [...]
Sometimes, when mediocre imitations of food are easily available, you can forget that it’s easy to make the thing yourself. But once you try the real thing, you can never look at the store-bought version the same way again. Whipped cream is one of those things. Contrary to popular belief, whipped cream doesn’t naturally come [...]
Christmas is right around the corner now, and if you’re in a sudden panic realizing that you haven’t gotten all your gifts, never fear: there are a lot of quick, easy, and thoroughly impressive-looking foods you can make as gifts. I was snowed in on Saturday, and made a stunning amount of food (which I [...]
Refried beans, salsa, and tortillas are things we usually buy ready-made, but making them yourself can make a plain old meal extra good.