Food

Adventures in Experimental Cooking: Vobla Soup

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Vobla, originally uploaded by zak_greant.
Early last week, I ventured out to our local German and Eastern European deli. While picking up the regular assortment of cured meats, [...]

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Recipe: Cornbread Crème Brûlée

My wife loves cornbread and crème brûlée. This dish combines both (much, I am sure, to the horror of many.) I made it as a part of our 11th anniversary meal.
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 20 minutes of work, 5 hours of waiting.
Ingredients
1/4 cup coarse corn meal
1/2 cup water
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup brown sugar
4 egg [...]

A French (Culinary) Invasion of the Deep South

Last night, Mandy and I celebrated eleven awesome years of being together.
I cooked us a dinner that combined two cuisines that are very important to me, but that I almost never cook any more - French (or, at least, the codified version that I was taught in cooking school) and home-style cooking from Texas, Oklahoma, [...]

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