A few weeks ago, I shot a St. Patrick’s Day feature for Kitchen Daily. Have you seen this site? I’m pleased as punch to be shooting seasonal recipes for them now and then, particularly if the recipes are as good as the Irish ones I recently shot. And, even more, if they continue to contain recipes like this luscious chocolate Guinness cake with a boozey whiskey caramel sauce. Oh yum.

I have very fuzzy memories of Mardi Gras. That’s probably a pretty safe bet for most folks indulging in the celebration, but in my case it was less about the partying (which I did) and more about having a fever about 102F. This was quite a few years ago, long before Katrina, and I had [...]

Visit any Seattle farmer’s market this time of year and you’ll see apples by the crateful. I mean huge crateful. Anything that comes in that big of a crate tends to make me skeptical, particularly given when the harvest season ended months ago. The fact is, storage apples are not the apples of my dreams. [...]

I really can’t explain this. I don’t even like hazelnuts. But I do like these cookies. A lot. Think Nutella, if it were a cookie. Not just spread between two sugar cookies. But what if the Nutella was the cookie itself. I have to hand it to Kim Boyce, who’s Good to the Grain simply [...]

So, continuing on this whole breakfast theme thing I seem to have going on, how about some rice porridge? This version simply cooks the rice (arborio, but any short grain will do) in some water and milk (1/2 cup rice, 1 1/2 cup water, 1 cup milk), with a pinch of salt and cinnamon until [...]