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I had a bit of trouble figuring out what to do for pie week. I pulled up lots of pie recipes, but I just wasn't really feeling inspire...

We bought this canned mackerel some time ago, and it's been hanging out in our pantry with other canned fish and assorted pates for mo...

I was reading Grub Street earlier today and they were talking about a new Taco Bell experiment - a taco shell made out of a fried egg debu...

We had a Friday evening flight out to Seattle, and after getting to the airport and going through security, we only had a short time to gr...

We took another short break from blogging, but this time it wasn't from laziness or writer's block. We just got back yesterday from...

We began every morning in Santorini the same way - with pies. On the pedestrian walkway into the heart of Oia, there was a small bakery th...

A few days after making the Meyer lemon bars , A decided to redeem his free birthday treat at Pinkberry. When we walked in, we saw they ha...

NYC doesn't have a ton of Cambodian food, so when we first read a year or so ago about the opening of Angkor Cambodian Bistro on the U...

The March cheese at Trader Joe's is Fior Delle Alpi, or "Flower of the Alps." A raw milk cheese from the Swiss Alps, Trader ...

I have a "problem" where I often go to Costco with the intention of not buying grains (because we have a lot) and then walk out ...

Recently we saw what looked to us like a new cheddar cheese at Trader Joe's - Mull of Kintyre Scottish cheddar cheese. From some resea...

One day while M and I were walking around Trader Joe's, we happened across some bags of Meyer Lemons. I know they're used a lot in...

For the Middle East challenge, I made a three part meal. The first recipe I had stumbled on was from Saveur for makhlama lahm , Iraqi eggs...

One pot was the challenge theme for one of the first challenge weeks I ever did back in 2014 , so I wasn't sure what to make for the on...