Bake or Break

I heart my double ovens

August’s “I’ll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours” (which was thankfully extended through the weekend), brought to us by Cate at Sweetnicks, asks the question, “What item in my kitchen can I not live without?” With no hesitation, I can tell you that my answer is double ovens. When we were beginning the [...]

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Popovers and my guide to the globe

I attemted to make this recipe for Garlic Parmesan Popovers to go with our dinner tonight. I never thought I could have something fail so badly that I wouldn’t be willing to put a picture of it here. Well, there will be no picture. No, I’m far too embarrassed. I shaved a considerable amount of [...]

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Alton Brown

Quinn and I are back home after travelling to Nashville for their guest chef lecture series featuring Alton Brown. We only found out about this last week, so all the VIP tickets were sold. Those tickets included a “meet and greet” function with AB. We had half-jokingly contemplated trying to take down someone with VIP [...]

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