Tandoori Masala is easily purchased these days online or in grocery stores. However, I’ve always preferred to make my own so I can tailor the flavor to be more bold and a little more nuanced. After all, that’s the beauty of masala. For years, you couldn’t buy tandoori masala in stores pre-made. Everyone’s mom made…
Saffron Pistachio Soup is a gloriously rich and flavorful soup, possessing great depth and simultaneous lift with bright notes of citrus and saffron. This recipe takes simple ingredients and very little preparation—and turns that into a dish that could easily sit on a core menu in a five-star restaurant. “Oh my God.” “OH MY GOD.”…
The first time I had pancake dippers was in high school. A friend’s mom had packed a dessert masquerading as a lunch food in my friend’s lunch box, and we nommed on them in the stairwell one day, playing hookie from the lunch room. I remember looking out the window in the stair landing, sitting…
I didn’t know what to make for dinner, but that’s EXACTLY why I created the Flavor Crash Course—to eliminate this problem! :) See…I got home from my Christmas vacation in Nashville, and there was no food in my fridge. Luckily, in the spirit of Christmas, the week before, I purchased a cured ham nugget (basically…
Have you ever had a Jack Rose cocktail? They are delicious, let me tell you. They are made with Apple Brandy, grenadine, and fresh lemon juice. But Jack Rose’s are only delicious if you make them with homemade grenadine, and not that yucky High Fructose Corn Syrup, Red #40 abomination they try to pass off…
It started in the usual way. Me, hungry. Not sure what to eat. Nothing prepared. First, take inventory. What’s in my fridge? Carrots. Celery. Poblano peppers. Cauliflower. Kale. Beets. Butter. Raw milk. Cream. Pastured Eggs. Parmesan. Oranges. Lemons. Limes. Leftover homemade beef broth. What’s in my freezer? Beef. Lots of grassfed beef. I got a quarter…