recipes

Vintage Bar Aid

by James Furbush on April 15, 2011 · 0 comments

Reader Rob writes, “You need to get one of these vintage bar aids. I had a party where I wrote down the numbers 1-80 and instead of letting people be in control of their drinks a bartender used the aid to make the corresponding cocktail. You would be surprised how many drinks have eggs or [...]

Google Recipe View

by James Furbush on February 24, 2011 · 0 comments

Generally, searching for recipes is a pain in the ass with Google. Mostly because of all the content spam that floats to the SEO top. If they could just skim off any entries from about.com, ehow.com, allrecipes.com, etc. it might not be so bad. And yes, I recognize that I should just use epicurious, food [...]

Serious Eats has devised a seriously tasty-sounding recipe for Bourbon Bacon Jam, which was inspired by a Martha Stewart recipe. The taste of this jam is truly outrageous. Each bite contains layer upon layer of flavor, from the caramelized onions and garlic, to the sweet bourbon and maple syrup, to the smoky, salty, porky bacon. [...]

Kenji doesn’t disappoint and if you’re a regular reader you know how much I adore his scientific food experiments. The advice is too numerous to breakdown or mention, but I will say, after cooking Turkey Day with Lady Oyster the last few years, preparation ahead of time is key. Either today or tomorrow you should [...]

Picture Cook

by James Furbush on November 17, 2010 · 0 comments

Artist Katie Shelly created Picture Cook, a cookbook using illustrations for recipes instead of traditional instructions. ”The following recipes are not intended as precise culinary blueprints. Instead they are meant to inspire experimentation, improvisation and play in the kitchen,” she says. Experimentation, improvisation and not following strict recipes are the best methods for cooking. [Drawn via [...]

Perfectly Poached Eggs

by James Furbush on October 29, 2010 · 0 comments

Though I adore Serious Eats Kenji Lopez-Alt, his method for perfectly poaching eggs is just waaay too time consuming. Sorry, but no busy person has the time for “par-cooking the eggs in the shell in a 150 degree water bath until they just barely begin to set (34 minutes is the magic number), then chill them [...]