I’ve read Michael Ruhlman in his book The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America talking about learning to make consommé at the CIA, how he struggled to achieve that elusive level of clarity that would let him read the date on a dime at the bottom of his pot. [...]

Has it really been 2 months since we posted anything? Wow. We really suck. We have been cooking, and eating. We’ve even talked about blogging. Hmm. Yeah, we just suck. Anyway, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And that means presents and Christmas carols and presents and egg nog and presents and a [...]

Well, yes. Mostly. And we’ve done lots of food-type things lately. We found out what happens if you forget that you put the pizza dough into the turned-off oven to rise where it will be safe from both drafts and curious pets. (It’s still ok the next day – actually quite edible.) We made outrageous [...]

I’ve spent all week hoping for rain and so ready for it to cool down. It’s been one of those weeks where you don’t want to cook just because you don’t want to add even one degree of heat to your house. And cooking outside — it’s REALLY hot out there, so just no. But [...]

Warning: objects in picture are larger than they appear We braved the elements this morning to go the Memphis Farmers Market. Once we were out of the rain, it was a great day: cool enough to just enjoy being out and not as crowded as it has been the past couple of weekends. We saw [...]

A while back on Squirrel Squad, Paul wrote about some tomato jam that I put together. As we’re getting ready for the farmers markets to open, we’re already thinking about the things that we’ll store away for later, and tomato jam has definitely made the list. I had seen tomato jam at Jones Orchard before. [...]

In response to a recent query, you can find out more about tomato jam on our new blog at PaulandAngela.net.

So you just wanted to get out of the house and have something not too expensive for dinner. You went out and got nachos. A lot of nachos. Far too many nachos for any single human being to consume in one sitting. You felt too guilty about waste to leave them behind even though you [...]

In our most recent CSA basket from Downing Hollow Farms, we found lovely slender eggplants. Once we saw that we had tomatoes that also had the same slender shape and fresh basil, we knew what to do — eggplant Napoleons. I made nice long, thin slices of eggplant with the mandolin. I made not so [...]

This has been a wonderful tomato summer. One of our favorite activities every Friday has been to take a look at the variety of tomatoes that we’re getting in our CSA box from Downing Hollow Farm. Some of our favorites have been the very small ones that have come in every color. But what can [...]