The wife and I are enamored with our new Sunday treat, the Chicago-style Italian beef sandwich.

If you’re not familiar with this heavenly mess, think of it as the bastard offspring of a French dip and a Philly cheese steak. Watch this video for more information. There’s really no place locally to [...]

The wife gave me a mandoline for Valentine’s Day and I’ve been waiting for a chance to break it in. Last night we decided to make some healthy, homemade, sweet potato chips. I set the slicer to 1/8″ and went to town. It’ll take some practice to get perfectly even slices, but [...]

Now that it’s practically winter, our tomatillos suddenly ripened. We decided to use them and some peppers from the garden to make some salsa verde. Last time we made roasted tomatillo salsa, we kept it sweet as a sauce for some pork. This time, I wanted it to be more like a hot [...]

When it starts to get cold and rainy outside, most people crave comfort foods like stews and casseroles. I crave Italian food; it’s just the way I was raised. The funny thing is, my wife now shares this craving. So yesterday I decided to make some stuffed shells. If you’re going [...]

The wife wanted to eat in to celebrate her birthday last week. She asked for surf and turf:

We bought some fillets at the butcher shop and ordered some lobsters from the Wicked Fresh Lobster Company, a local company that flies in fresh lobsters from Maine. We ordered late, so the lobsters arrived pre-steamed. [...]

Mark Bittman’s no-knead bread recipe (based on Jim Lahaney’s method) is billed as idiot-proof, but it’s really not. Or maybe it is, but idiots like me aren’t very good at it. The first couple of times I tried it, I followed the recipe exactly and ended up with a bland, dry bread. [...]

As regular readers know, I’ve been experimenting with homemade bread for months now. My early results ranged from inedible to palatable. Some loaves even went directly from the oven to the trash can. In retrospect, I handicapped my learning process by adopting and abandoning several different methods and recipes before perfecting one. [...]

Roasts were on sale this weekend at Publix, so I decided to dry some beef jerky.