Month

11/29/12 • BANANA BREAD UNBOUND Adapted from America’s Test Kitchen Although this posting is nominally about banana bread, in a larger sense it’s also about cravings, since that’s the category for me in which this particular item falls. Of course, we all have certain foods we find ourselves yearning for from time-to-time, it’s just that some of us (arrow pointed to self here) seem to have more cravings than others—a

11/23/12 • OATMEAL, ACCELERATED Adapted from the Sept./Oct., 2012 Cook’s Illustrated I’m going to keep this posting brief since between the enormous meal you’ve likely just consumed, the multitude of leftovers now residing in your fridge, and all the cooking you’ve had to do to get here, this probably isn’t the ideal moment for diving into some long-winded evaluation of a new recipe—no matter how stellar the results.

11/15/12 • PATÉ TO THE HIGHEST POWER! Adapted from the Nov., 2003 Gourmet Since this is a posting in which the star ingredient is none other than chicken livers, I should probably start by acknowledging one important detail: I’m not much of a liver lover. In fact, “not much” is putting it mildly—it would be more accurate to say I have a powerful aversion to the stuff. As someone who’s always been happy to eat pretty

11/08/12 • CRACKING THE PESTO CEILING Adapted from the Oct., 2012 Bon Appétit In the days leading up to last week’s big event, otherwise known as Hurricane Sandy, my big concern was the sort of food I’d need on hand once the storm blew in. Unsure whether the power would stay on, I doubled my money (or rather my outlay of it), filling the fridge with things like milk, cheese, eggs, and chicken parts, and the cupboards