by perfectlittlebites | Jun 13, 2016 | Baking, Photography
I didn’t grow up a Southerner. I grew up in Massachusetts. Up there we only had one kind of cornbread…the sweet kind made from a box mix, usually Jiffy. Now that I’m a chef in the Mid-Atlantic (I have trouble referring to Maryland as “the South”), I often get caught...
by perfectlittlebites | Jan 7, 2014 | Assorted
This past weekend I catered a dinner party for some friends. They had a theme, and emailed me a list of ideas, but ultimately left the menu planning to me. Included in the email was a link to a cake that had caught their eye. I knew nothing about the website it came...
by perfectlittlebites | Oct 14, 2013 | Assorted, health
Chorizo Frosting It’s funny how you start working on one thing, but find something more exciting along the way. I was making a chorizo stock for an upcoming event. It was just spicy Mexican chorizo, water and maple syrup cooked for 4 hours. The next day, I...
by perfectlittlebites | Sep 22, 2013 | Assorted, health
Recently, we’ve been working a lot with rendered fat to see what we can do. When cooking a prime rib, sometimes I trim the fat before cooking and other times I don’t. This week as I was prepping a couple of ribs, I had a thought. I trimmed a lot of the thick white fat...
by perfectlittlebites | May 24, 2013 | health
How things are presented affect how they are perceived. Take something like offal. Pretty delicious but there are a lot of skeptics. Why? Because it’s animal organs, and that’s weird. We can all agree that honey is wonderful, but at the end of the day...
