Evan and I are looking to build a DIY sous vide machine. We are sourcing the parts and are just about to ready to rock and roll. If anyone is interested in playing with us, drop us a line… Here’s what we’ve come up with so far: -in principal any body of water can be …
Category Archives: Mouthy Bits
Food Scan 1: You and Your Kitchen
Our first food scan takes us into the modern kitchen. Here, finally, in one place, are all the items a modern chef will need to get cooking… All joking aside, not much has changed when you really look at it. But my god, look at the colors! Click on the image to see it in …
New Feature: Epic Food Scans!
I was recently over for dinner at a friends house. He brought out a few books that his dad had rescued from a local thrift store. One giant and slightly off smelling tome, called “The Creative Cooking Course”, is an opus to haute cuisine of the late 60’s and 70’s shown through the jaded eyes …
Book: Tender by Nigel Slater
I have a confession: I don’t like vegetables. I’m more of a fruit person. However I will admit there has been the odd occasion where someone has prepared some vegetable in a way that has blown my socks off. So in an effort to not get rickets, I purchased the most stunning book by Nigel …
Book: The Devil In The Kitchen
Before the advent of the food network, before the glut of celebrity chefs, before glam cook books, there was Marco Pierre White. Know publicly as the first ‘rock star’ chef, Mr. White was far more.
One of my all time fave pesto
One of my all time fave pesto ~ Orecchiette with Pistachio Pesto – 6 servings
Black Cod & Risotto
Made this recipe once before back at work and when I saw black cod on special I just had to try it again at home.
Ethical Food Part 2
So I found this online. Its a BBC program called Kill it, Cook it, Eat it. It deals with animals from farm to plate. Not an easy watch, but pretty much as real as it gets. The whole thing is explained in the first 15 seconds or so. Not for the faint of heart.
A Jolly Old Christmas
Christmas has always been one of my favorite times of the year, not for the time off work or the drunken stumbling of friends and family although they do go hand in hand. The Christmas season would not be the same without it, Christmas to me is being with family, eating amazing homemade food and …
The End Of 2009
I set out to make a dinner for my friends as a way to close out 2009. It had been a year of many changes and I wanted a fitting meal to say farewell with.
Bad Ass Cleaver
scary and sexy and choppy all in one!
$20 Challenge Via Germany
Off the top of my head I can think of a few menus under $20 that are simple to make and easy on the budget. I live in Germany so trying to compare costs of food here to cost of food there.
HO HO HO
Well I’m about to get into my Christmas cooking mode (read: red wine opened and music cranked). For me it is Polish delights on the 24th and tukey on the 25th. The perogi assembly-line usually kicks into highgear around 8pm on the 23rd and takes us well into the early hours of the next morning, …
Worth a try…
I was just watching “Chopped” tonight, which for those that don’t know, is yet another reality food show. It’s based on a number of chefs creating a three course meal for a panel of judges. Seems to pretty much mimic all the other reality cooking shows (like Top Chef, etc) but each course must contain …
whats the deal with that?…….
Oh goodness it must be Christmas! Here’s what i don’t understand though……Why is it that the restaurant feels more busy than usual??? Our numbers are the same at November, 100+ covers at lunch and nearing 200 for dinner. Sales are just a touch higher but mostly due to more booze being sold. I don’t get …