New Year’s Good Luck “Pasta Fazool” – Think Lucky, Be Lucky
Scientists will tell you that there’s no way eating pork, beans, and/or greens at the beginning of a new year can bring you good luck and gr...
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How to Make Chocolate Truffles
We’ve posted chocolate truffle-like confections before, but I’ve always taken the coward’s way out, and just finished them by dusting in coc...
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Moroccan-Spiced Pork Roast – Previously “On the Lamb”
This amazing Moroccan-spiced pork recipe is actually adapted from a classic North African technique for roasting leg of lamb. And while the ...
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Lion’s Head Meatballs – They Look Good Enough to Eat You
I’m a big fan of meatballs, and a really big fan of really big meatballs, so you can imagine my excitement when I heard about something call...
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Italian Party Bread
This crispy on the outside, soft in the middle, Italian meat and cheese stuffed loaf is a party waiting to happen. "Festive" doesn...
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Turkey Rice – Thankful for Leftovers
There are so many creative, and delicious ways to use up the last of that holiday bird, but this super simple turkey rice recipe might be my...
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Fast Upside-Down Turkey – Looks Great?
I didn’t invent cooking turkeys quickly, using high heat; and I didn’t invent cooking turkeys upside-down; but I might have inventing doing ...
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Roasted Smashed Potatoes – Not Those Smashed Potatoes
To many people, “smashed potatoes” are just another more violent name for mashed potatoes, especially when the skins are left in, but those ...
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Russian Honey Cake
Let me state for the record that this Russian Honey Cake was probably the best cake I’ve ever eaten, and certainly the best cake I’ve ever m...
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Turkish Eggs (Cilbir) – You’re Never Too Old
When you get to a certain age, you think you’ve seen and done it all. Whether we’re talking professionally, romantically, or culinarily, by ...
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The Story of Kismet and Other Major Breaking News
If you’re not familiar with the word kismet, it means fate, or destiny. It’s one of those old, beautiful words that you never hear, until y...
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Swedish Chocolate Balls (Chokladbollar) – Start'em Young
They say that these Swedish chocolate balls, known as chokladbollar, are the first thing a Swedish child learns to make, which makes a lot o...
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Popeye’s Meets Chick-fil-A’s Fried Chicken Sandwich – Available Any Day, and All the Time
In the spirit of full disclosure, I’ve never had a Popeye’s fried chicken sandwich, but since I’m so familiar with their work, I thought I c...
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Dirty, Dirty Rice – Filthy Delicious
Believe it or not, the first place I ever had dirty rice was Popeye’s fried chicken. They were out of the red beans and rice. I’ve never bee...
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Miso Braised Beef with King Trumpet Mushrooms – Comforting and Exciting?
When people think comfort food, they generally think of classic, iconic recipes that are made the exact same way every time. No one likes ch...
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Grandma’s Peanut Butter Fudge – Which Grandma? We’re Not Exactly Sure
There is nothing quite like a batch of old-fashioned peanut butter fudge, especially when it’s freshly made by your Grandma. Which is why I ...
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Bacon-Wrapped Cranberry Walnut Pork – Fancy, Not Fancy
It’s getting close to that time of the year when we spoil our guests by making them extra-fancy, labor-intensive, time-consuming meals. Or, ...
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Potatoes Romanoff - This Didn't Stay in Vegas
They say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, but that’s mostly because people just don’t remember exactly what happened. Happily, that’s ...
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Pumpkin-Shaped Dinner Rolls – Your Guests Will Blow Their Gourds
The holidays are almost here, which means “show-off” baking season is almost here, and these pumpkin-shaped dinner rolls are just the thing ...
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