Panna Cotta- A Week of Experiments

On Sunday, I found myself munching on a bag of Smart Food popcorn.  A little know fact is that Smart Food was created in my home town of Marlborough, MA long before they were bought by Frito.  Having grown up on it, I wanted to honor it in a new...

Panna Cotta- The Prelude

It’s been a very busy week and I haven’t had a chance to do a post.  But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking & experimenting.  Today I started to play with Panna Cotta.  What is it and what do we expect from it?...

Quality

Having had a very busy weekend, I was deciding what to post about.  I did a lot of cooking and a lot of eating.  Saturday morning I got out of bed early (not by choice), and made homemade cinnamon rolls.  You know, the kind with yeast that needs to rise...

The Bitter Truth

Today, I wanted to speak about the importance of bitters.  My first introduction to bitters was that bottle of infrequently used Angostura in my parents’ liquor cabinet.  I’m pretty sure that they had that same bottle for close to a...

The Great Gazpacho

What to do with all these tomatoes.  Something had to be done, so I decided to freestyle some gazpacho.  I’ve made gazpacho numerous times and I almost always make it differently. Sorry, there isn’t a recipe for this. If you are interested,...