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Jan222013

Julia Child Soubise with Cream and Blackened Chicken

The Peasant Dishes Continue with a Cream and Chicken Soubise

Food and BeveragesBy Joshua Kennon January 22, 2013 1 Comment

The parade of so-called “peasant dishes” from classic cuisine continues! A peasant dish (a term somewhat offensive to my American sensibilities), is a meal made up of low-cost, widely available ingredients that are improved with specific cooking techniques and spices. Peasant dishes evolved out of centuries of experimentation by working-class families in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and England; the by-product of cooks, housewives, and head chefs improvising, experimenting, adjusting, and modifying the foods they had on hand to create something extraordinary with limited resources.

Jan172013

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking Cookbook

Italian Cookbook Recommendation

Book Recommendations, Food and BeveragesBy Joshua Kennon January 17, 2013 8 Comments

The short version: Even if you only rarely cook at home, you need to buy this cookbook. It’s out of print but there are a few cheap copies left on the secondary market through Amazon so you might be able to get one if you hurry. The longer explanation: One of the sub-tasks in my Well…

Jan152013

Joshua Kennon Finished Double Layer Chocolate Espresso Cake

I Spent My Evening Making a Double-Layer Coffee-Infused Chocolate Cake and Watching Downton Abbey

Food and BeveragesBy Joshua Kennon January 15, 2013 3 Comments

I won’t give anything away but, in a general sense, I am beginning to think the writers like using Edith as a punching bag for the sake of keeping the joke going. By Season 5, I expect her to be a paraplegic living in the attic of Downton Abbey after a horrific motor car accident;…

Jan102013

Two Loaves of Rosemary Garlic Lavender from Recipe with Olive Oil

Rosemary, Garlic, and Lavender No-Knead Bread Recipe

Food and BeveragesBy Joshua Kennon January 10, 2013 10 Comments

After working through several types of bread recipes, I am going to share with you one of the more popular, easier dinner breads we’ve made. It comes from an adaptation of a famous no-knead recipe published in The New York Times. In our tests, it performed very well and requires almost no effort, a handful of ingredients, and can serve as a very easy introduction if you’ve never baked a loaf of bread in your life. It should not be intimidating for you, even if you haven’t turned on an oven in years.

Jan62013

Rosemary Garlic and Lavender Bread Recipe

Mail Bag: What System Do You Use to Organize Your Cooking Tests?

Food and Beverages, Mail BagBy Joshua Kennon January 6, 2013 8 Comments

This is a mail bag question about the process I use to organize my kitchen and other things in general. Joshua, I love the food posts! I don’t understand how you experiment and find new recipes. What is your process? Tracy V. Like most things in my life, I build a system, adhere to it,…

Jan12013

Spices Were Once More Valuable Than Silver and Men Would Kill to Acquire Them

Food and Beverages, HistoryBy Joshua Kennon January 1, 2013 9 Comments

I’m reading a book called Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner. As the review said, “There was a time, for a handful of peppercorns, you could have someone killed. Throw in a nutmeg or two, you could probably watch. There was a time when grown men sat around and thought of nothing but black…

Dec102012

Cinnamon Bourbon Cherry Pie for Christmas

Food and BeveragesBy Joshua Kennon December 10, 2012 1 Comment

After the apple pies I’ve been turning out, there has been demand for cherry pies of comparable quality given that everyone around here seems to prefer them. I do not have a cherry pie recipe, so I thought to turn to America’s Test Kitchen to find some of their suggestions. America’s Test Kitchen is one of my favorite…

Dec102012

Milk Chocolate, White Chocolate, Whipped Cream, and Oreo Pie

Chocolate Oreo Pies

Food and BeveragesBy Joshua Kennon December 10, 2012 Leave a comment

Last night, I adapted the layered pudding Oreo dessert into pie form, making two Oreo pies, which are now sitting in the second refrigerator. It was the first, and only time, in my life I have ever used a pre-made pie crust dough but the goal is to develop a simplified recipe that anyone can make,…

Dec82012

How To Make My Favorite Blueberry Sauce Recipe

Food and BeveragesBy Joshua Kennon December 8, 2012 3 Comments

If you have ever wanted a blueberry sauce recipe that will work with only four ingredients – water, sugar, salt, and fresh blueberries – packs a lot of sweetness, takes less than ten minutes to prepare, and can be used to garnish pancakes, drizzle on lemon cheesecake, top Belgian waffles, spoon over angel food cake,…

Nov302012

Baking a Granny Smith Apple Pie In the Middle of the Night

Food and Beverages, My Day In PicturesBy Joshua Kennon November 30, 2012 6 Comments

I had some work to do but I just couldn’t focus. Still, I wanted to be productive. We had a giant bag of Granny Smith apples, butter, sugar, brown sugar, flour, and other ingredients left over from Thanksgiving, so I decided to mess around with apple pie recipes. The flavor turned out beyond my expectations.…