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✷ How To Instagram Side Dishes Veggies and Salads

Caprese Salad

April 20, 2019April 20, 2019 burrata, caprese, cheese, foodpics, foodstagram, heresmyfood, homemade, inmykitchen, instafood, onmytable, salads

I've been a little obsessed with caprese salad recently, so when I saw beautiful heirloom tomatoes and burrata cheese at the grocery store, I knew I had to make my own. Like most salads, I'm not going to write a "recipe" but rather, give you some tips to make your... Read More

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Raw Oysters with Mignonette Sauce

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019

For many years, I was afraid of raw oysters. They seemed slimy, scary, and just not appetizing. Then I did my first trip to New Orleans, and my mind started to change. It was the wood-fired oysters at Cochon that opened my eyes. These weren't scary at all, but rather... Read More

✷ How To Recipe

Homemade Dried Citrus Slices

September 29, 2017 citrus, garnish, lemon, wheel

Let’s talk for a second about garnishes. When I first started cooking and making homemade cocktails, I thought garnishes were a waste of time and energy. All I wanted was for my homemade food and drinks to taste spectacular. Anything else seemed fussy or pretentious. I never thought I would've... Read More

✷ How To Mains Recipe

Cilantro Cashew Pesto

July 25, 2017 cashews, cilantro

They say necessity is the mother of invention and, when it comes to cooking, I couldn't agree more. I have a love affair with pesto, but until today's cilantro cashew pesto, I had never tried using cilantro as the base. So how did this combination come into my repertoire? By... Read More

Beverages Coffee How To Recipe

Cold Brew: My New Coffee Obsession

June 20, 2017April 21, 2025 cold-brew

It seems everywhere I go I cannot escape cold-brewed coffee. At first I didn't get the hype. I am admittedly espresso obsessed. I had abandoned iced coffee years ago because it was too weak and too bland... Read More

How To Mains Recipe

Homemade Bratwurst

March 29, 2017 charcuterie

I've been promising this bratwurst recipe for a while now, just waiting until I had enough time to sit down and get it written. But as we move into spring, the recipe can wait no longer. I must warn you - these homemade brats are so far beyond store-bought in terms... Read More

How To

Charcuterie Fundamentals: Homemade Sausage

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 charcuterie, pork, sausage

For most of my adult life, I considered charcuterie beyond the realm of the home kitchen. As an American, charcuterie surrounds us in life as hotdogs, bologna, bacon and more, but we don't really talk about making our own. We buy bacon or sausages and we cook them. I assumed... Read More

Breads and Baking How To

Hearth Bread Baking at Home

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016

When I talk about baking rustic loaves of bread, I'm usually talking about hearth breads. These are breads made directly on a hearth or the hot deck of an oven. What you are trying to do is radiate heat as efficiently as possible to promote oven spring (that extra lift... Read More

Breads and Baking How To

Working with Wild Yeast – How Not to Kill Your Mother

October 7, 2016

Why do I care about wild yeast? The older I get, the more fascinated I become with the unseen world. We are surrounded every day by microorganisms, shaping the foods we eat and the beverages we drink in numerous ways. It seems that our entire edible world is constrained by... Read More

Breakfast How To Snacks

Summertime Smoothies

June 27, 2016September 25, 2016 breakfast, fruit, healthy, smoothie

In the summer, smoothies always sound like a good idea. Cold, fruity, what's not to love? But more often than not, when you buy a smoothie what you get is an overly sweet frozen drink that is closer to a fruit-flavored shake. Extra sugar, artificial sweeteners, artificial flavors, no thank... Read More