The idea of making chocolate babka used to scare us, but then we made some—and found out just how delicious and easy it is to make at home. Though we love the mail-order loaves from classic bakeries in New York, with the right temperatures and a good recipe, we can make it at home for…
Few, if any, foods are better at conveying love than the tamale. You don’t just whip a batch of them together for people you don’t care about—why would you go through all that effort? No, if someone gives you a tamal, they care about you. Because of the effort it takes to make them, they…
Yorkshire puddings are a food that we just don’t think of enough. This may not be 100% accurate, but it seems that most Americans who know (and therefore love) these puddings spent a lot of time in Great Britain or have close family there. And that just won’t do. So, we’re bringing you a discussion…
If you want to spend some real money for dinner, go to a restaurant and order a 45-day dry-aged steak. It’s going to cost a significant chunk of change. But why should we reserve such rich and delectable foods for super-special occasions that we’ll have to pay for the next month? Let us, instead, dry…
Let’s talk about cornbread. It’s a marvelously American food—bread made of maize—that compliments other great foods of our cuisine. What is a bowl of chili without a slice of cornbread? What plate of ribs is not made better with a hunk of crisp-bottomed homemade cornbread? While box-mix cornbread is tasty, it has nothing on the…
Dan Phelps, of LearningToSmoke.com, has done it again! We’re always happy to have great barbecuers and grillers Bring the Heat and show us their favorite dishes, and this was no exception. Dan prepared some juicy, flavorful, perfectly cooked beef tri-tip sandwiches and we were the beneficiaries. But you can be too! Watch the video, then…
