I’ve said before that trying to figure out measurements while Joey cooks is pretty much a herculean feat. He’s a man who always measures with his heart. And, boy, does his heart love our spice cabinet. That’s perfectly fine with me, though, because he is great at combining flavors, and he’s also the person you …
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After finding a huge, eight-pound pork butt on sale a few weeks ago, our first inclination was for Joey to throw it on his smoker, as he normally would. Instead, we debated a bit back and forth about what kind of new recipe we could try, and it turned into what we deemed to be …
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Something I love about Joey is that he is often quite willing to jump into a grand kitchen experiment with me. Recently, that was when I pulled out my pasta roller, and instead of merely making noodles, as I have so far since I bought it, I proposed creating ravioli from scratch. He was totally …
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Back before my married days, one of my favorite dishes to make for myself was a big nine-by-13-inch pan of good, old-fashioned tater tot casserole. Of course, being one person, that also meant I was dedicating one meal a day for the next week to eating plenty of leftovers. I’m a sucker for leftovers, though, …
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Sometimes I feel like I must try a recipe, just because it sounds too ridiculous or strange to ignore. In this case, it was finding a guy online making a “Mexican Dutch baby.” If you’re not familiar with a traditional Dutch baby, it’s basically a large, puffy pancake made in an already preheated pan in …
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I love finding recipes that claim to be “national dishes” or “traditional” ones. But I will also confess that, more often than not, when I declare that something is “traditional,” there is someone who will email me (very nicely, mind you) to let me know that, actually, the recipe I found wasn’t quite right. Inevitably, …
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People sometimes wonder how I manage to find a different recipe to try every week. In the beginning of this column, over a decade ago, I thought I would source them from readers. I always assumed people would love sharing their favorites with me to try. But I’ve found over the years that people like …
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A few weeks ago, as one of my officemates, who shall remain nameless, glanced at my column, he remarked, “You’re really on a pasta kick right now, aren’t you?” “Yeah,” I told him. “I’m always on a pasta kick.” I mean, it’s kind of a silly question. Pasta is amazing. So, despite the judgement from …
On Jan. 23, 1940, the United States awarded a patent to inventor Irving Nachumsohn’s newest creation: the crock pot. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, it was originally marketed as the “Naxon Beanery,” with its name coming from a shortened version of Nachumsohn’s last name. With the public’s opinions of German last names during the mid-1940s, …
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While watching random cooking shows over the years, I picked up the advice from several chefs that if you’re cooking with wine, you should choose a bottle you would actually want to drink, or it isn’t worth using in your recipe. I have never heard the same advice for beer. I have used some of …
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