“When you’re driving along the freeway with 18 kilos of dry ice in your passenger seat, it’s probably a good idea to keep your windows rolled down a bit” This…
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To anyone who hasn’t deleted the link for this blog from their RSS aggregators or live bookmarks, I offer a huge apology for the radio silence over the past few…
It’s my birthday! Well, not really; it was this past week. But tomorrow some friends are coming over to our place for a sumptuous Southern-style dinner of fried chicken and…
A few days ago, a friend from work introduced me to probably one of the coolest blogs I’ve ever seen. I was immediately captivated; the presentation is just so, so…
This past Sunday was pretty fantastic; I invited several friends over for a small tasting menu of several dishes I’ve made recently. We had sea urchin, hot potato/cold potato, hibiscus,…
I decided to try this one on a whim too, though less so than the urchin one, because I’ve eyed this one a few times before. Sarah and I had…
I decided on a whim to try this one two days ago. It looked fairly simple, and the photo in the book is gorgeous. The dish is basically kina (sea…
When Sarah and I ate at Alinea a couple of years back, this dish was one of Sarah’s favorites. I’ve been planning on remaking it for her since her dad…
I don’t know about you, but the idea of liquefied popcorn struck me, upon skimming over this recipe, as about as appealing as liquefied bread. I had in my head…
So! Last weekend I took a break from…everything. I wanted some time to regroup and order new rounds of ingredients for upcoming cooking projects, to unwind from far too many…
So I think I’ve come to a conclusion: as a cookbook, the Alinea cookbook is less than ideal in a few ways. It’s vague in the way that stopping at…
Apologies for the downtime here; I’ve been a bit mired in details. When we last tuned in on our hero, he had made a reasonably simple dish of frozen lettuce…
This has been the easiest dish to make so far; probably predictably. It also ranked fairly high on the ‘mind-bending’ scale, mainly because I found myself torn between wanting to…
So, I had so much fun with this one I’m not sure entirely where to begin. The original dish as described by the Alinea Cookbook is called “Granola, in a…
I decided to do what some of my university buds would do for Friday exams on this one and take the Gentleman’s B. I’ve wanted to try making this dish…
The bane of my existence this fine Sunday afternoon. I’ve been trying today to make Bacon, Butterscotch, Apple, Thyme. The Bacon, Apple, and Thyme have all been brilliant and easy….
The first recipe out of the gate for this project is “Dry Caramel, Salt”. I picked this one because it seemed easy. It wasn’t. It took me 3 tries to…
