Earlier this year I backed a Kickstarter project from a company called Anova that was making a low cost sous vide immersion circulator. For those of you who have no idea what sous vide cooking is, it’s basically a method of cooking food in airtight bags at very low temperatures for long periods of time. The idea behind it is that the food is cooked much more evenly and that you can actually cook the … CONTINUE READING »
November 2014 archive
How to Turn Your Boring Unfrosted Peanut Butter Pop-Tarts Into Elvis Pop-Tarts
I recently spent 30 minutes digging through my kitchen cabinets trying to find some cookie cutters that it turns out were pretty much sitting right in front of me the entire time. On the plus side, I found a box of peanut butter flavored Pop-Tarts during my hunt and seeing as how they were about to expire I figured I should do something with them.
Now, I could have just eaten them for breakfast the … CONTINUE READING »
The Ten Cheese Wisconsin Grilled Cheese Sandwich
A couple weeks back I went on a Wisconsin cheese tour with eleven other food writers. Whenever I decide to stop being lazy and actually go through all the photos I took over the span of the trip you’ll have a pretty good blog post about it to read. Until then though here’s a grilled cheese sandwich that I made with ten different awesome Wisconsin cheeses from various places we stopped at during the course … CONTINUE READING »