Chez Awesome

It's that time of the year: holiday parties for two months, where you want to bring something nice but after the first couple of parties...

Chez Panisse is a very famous restaurant in my hometown of Berkeley, notable for the fact that it basically started the California cuisine ...

As part of my post-hurricane potluck baking experiments, I decided that I wanted to try baking a nice cake made with green tea.  I had bough...

Once a month, I meet up with a group of friends to play games and have a potluck.  It's perfect because I get to try out new games that ...

When you're tired after a long day, it's so easy to stay in a food rut and eat the same thing you always do when you're exhauste...

There's a very simple rule for eating pasta: thin pasta, thick sauce; thick pasta, thin sauce.  You eat gnocchi with a thin sauce, even ...

At some point, we've all discovered that the same food can have different names.  The name for soda (or pop or tonic or soft drinks or...

Ah, French recipes.  I've already mentioned that French baking recipes have a reputation for being finicky and difficult in the post on...

Cookbooks and cooking websites/blogs (mine included) generally present complete recipes - the proportions of the ingredients carefully worke...

The title of this post is clear: I hate, loathe, abhor  bread pudding.  But I can't deny that it's useful. The  Bloomingdale Far...