Chefs recommend you keep your pantry well-stocked with staples. I’m not sure why though. Most people keep their stapler in their office. Dorothy RosbyI'm a South Dakota humorist whose humor column appears in newspapers in…
I don’t like to cook. Yes, I sincerely mean it. Being in a partnership means I have my share of responsibility for our food. Frankly, I have about one miserable failure a month. I learned…
In our house, my wife does a lot of the cooking… okay, most of the cooking… okay, all of it. I’d gladly do more. I don’t claim to be the world’s greatest culinary expert, but…
Mexican Entree CHICKEN CHIPOTLE INGREDIENTS 1 medium onion 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 6 chicken breasts 1 cup crema Mexicana 1 tablespoon chipotle powder ¼ teaspoon pepper ½ teaspoon salt ⅓ cup chicken stock 1…
A recent fall nesting impulse found me mining beef stew recipes and sifting through an old Victorian secretary that sat in my living room. The secretary, chock-full of my mother’s personal correspondence, had stood undisturbed…
Brazilian Entree CHICKEN AND HEARTS OF PALM PIE INGREDIENTS – DOUGH 4 cups flour (3 tablespoons more later) 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1½ cups lard or butter 1 egg INGREDIENTS – FILLING…
I went out hunting mushrooms, a spore-t even I could succeed at. Kidding–I just stumbled across them by happy accident. (Literally stumbled across them, in one case.) I hate regular mushrooms. They taste like a…
I watched my favorite holiday movie over the weekend, A Christmas Carol – the George C. Scott version. After years of enjoying this classic, I admit that the movie presents for me one major—for lack of a…
We have an excerpt from our comic chef Paul De Lancey and his new novel Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms? Fwap! Oof! Huh? By Zeus, Joe Thorvaldes sure itched. He scratched his armpit through a…
Out of the Frying Pan and into the Microwave
It seems that when people meet my partner and me, they always want to know who’s the cook, and I always ask myself, why does it matter? Most people want to automatically assign roles in…
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