In honor of the hardened lumps of coal I accidentally left in the oven for five hours Saturday night, Kay from The Netherlands has provided us with a slightly more flavorful version, which would be the…

Did you know that Estonia has a ‘national fish’, in a similar vein to countries having chosen a ‘national flower’, a ‘national drink’, a ‘national bird’ etc? Well, we do since 2006 and it’s a…

You’re probably sick of all these 2008 wrap-ups (someone over at Serious Eats certainly is!) so I’ll try to keep mine short and sweet.

2008 was a wild year for me. In my job as host of The FN Dish…

Whenever I make ice cream from scratch, we usually have lots of leftover egg whites to use up. Meringues (or as my nephew calls them, “little pavlovas”) are little cookies made with basically…

Looking for a last minute New Year’s appetizer? From the recipe archive.

Brie wrapped in pastry and baked until it has thoroughly melted inside is one of the world’s easiest yet tastiest…

From the recipe archive. Happy New Year!

Being a quintessential Swiss dish, cheese fondue conjures up images for me of alpine ski huts, deep snow and 20°F weather. Well, we don’t get…

 
It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you have. I’m pretty sure that is the secret to life, a happy life that is. Too bad hardly anyone can follow that.
It’s that…

Kalyn’s favorite phase one recipe for December 2008 was
Hungarian Pot Roast with Sour Cream and Paprika Gravy.
In March of 2008 I started doing monthly round-ups of South Beach Diet Phase One recipes…

Wait. What?! 2009 … already … but where did 2008 go???
Okay … well … while I try to figure that question out I hope you’re all enjoying yourselves with much good food and…

I am, without a better way to put it, swimming in nuts.* Appalled by the price of nuts everywhere around here but insisting that it wasn’t going to keep me from baking with them, I asked my mother…