Roasting In The Summer

Of all the things I could be making during the blazing heat of summer, for some reason I decided it was a good evening to roast a chicken for well over an hour. You know, really crank up that oven in my small abode. (To be fair, it actually was a better evening for it than any in the past few weeks, but still…)

Whisky Peaches

Yesterday when I went to do my grocery shopping, the overwhelming smell of summer peaches hit me as I walked into the door. And so of course I had to grab a few. (If you’re going to impulse buy something, peaches are a great way to go.) As I walked around the store picking up other items, I tried to subliminally come up with an interesting use for them. This is what I came up with.

Happy Juneteenth!

Alright, so I’m a day late, but this is a picture of the all-American meal I made in celebration: burger and fries. The burger is a thick one, with pretty much just lettuce, tomato, mustard and sharp cheddar. The fries were baked with a light dressing of olive oil, salt, pepper and rosemary. And I washed it down with a beer of the root variety.

Quick Bites: A Good Friday

Alright, this is just a rushed post to show off my dinner this evening. Overall, it was a good Friday, and I decided to cap it off with a good meal, a good glass of wine, and a good movie.

Quick Bites: Shrimp and Stuff

I’ve found myself inadvertently cooking through Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s Food Revolution lately. It’s in rotation with all the other books I’m “cooking through”, but I find myself reaching for it more often than not during the past couple of weeks. And today’s meal comes to you courtesy of its opening chapter. It’s a lengthy-titled dish called “Shrimp and Avocado With an Old-School Marie Rose Sauce.” Not only was it quick to prepare and tasty to eat, but it let me cook with whisky. And that’s worth making a post.

Food Books We Like

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Food, History, Money and Math

Gourmet TodayWhen last we left you, I teased a new feature/series/focus for the website related to a new cookery book of almost mythic girth. A thousand-page testament to food on paper that we would not only use in exercise by simply picking up, but also something that we would be cooking from. And I’m here to tell you a little bit more about that.

The title in question is a lime-green offering by the name of Gourmet Today. And oddly enough, it arrived on my doorstep just a handful of days after its namesake magazine closed its doors…

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Call To Action

Ok, in order to get this blog started off right, I think we need to begin by issuing a call to action.

If you’re reading this site, it probably means one of two things: (1) you know one or both of us personally, find us both physically and mentally irresistible, and would therefore probably read any site that we started, be it for competitive yoga or minutia on historical tantric chant; or (2) you are interested in food and cooking. We’re going to assume that most of you are in the latter group, mainly for tax purposes.

Which leaves us with food. I like to think that we’re all food lovers here, and as such we should have some interest in spreading that excitement around a little…

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