The Cook’s Kitchen

Are you looking for that pizzeria flavor at home, or that superior crusty bread that can only come from the hands of an artisan baker? Or, maybe you’re re-modeling your kitchen and looking for that one flourish that will make this the center piece of your home. Either way, a wood-fired oven is the ticket […]

I hate summer in some ways:

I can’t run around in a swim suit all summer, just waiting for the lake to open each day at noon so I can swim all day long.
I have to get up by a certain time to go ‘work for the man’.
It’s hot, and I have to wear long pants! […]

One of my pet peeves with grinders is the mess they leave behind on the counter, the shelf, the table, wherever they happen to be sitting.  Grinder dust, just one more thing to clean up.  Well, luckily people are listening to us, and there are now two different grinders available that promise to leave the […]

August and September are the favorite months of the year for Chileheads.  That’s when the green chile harvest moves across the Southwest. If you live in that part of the country you have no doubt seen roadside stands, fields where you can pick-your-own, weekend festivals devoted to them and the very common chile trucks in […]

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that I had received a goodie box of grilling accessories from Charbroil. I’ve already reviewed the Hedge Hawg and now I’m moving on to the Brush Hawg.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like cleaning my grill. After cooking, I usually remove the meat and let the […]

A glut of rhubarb from the garden, combined with a pint of strawberries that had seen better days, forced me to come up with a mid-week dessert to satisfy my family. It was unusual to serve dessert on a Wednesday, but I knew no one in the house would stand for another batch of rhubarb-pecan […]

In the market for a few fun kitchen accessories? You might want to check out the goods offered by the S.P.I.R.A.L. Foundation. All made from recycled telephone wire, the money from the sales of the bowls goes to Vietnam’s Office of Genetic Counseling and Disabled Children, a group that funds heart surgeries in […]