Meals Posts
Black & White Chocolate Chip Cookies
We love Oreos here at the Mouse House. I mean, they’re creamy. They’re chocolate-y. They’re fun to eat. They make me feel like I’m 8 years old, which is great. Is there anything that can make these practically perfect cookies any better? Why, smash them up and bake them into chocolate chip cookies, of course. [...]
How to Make Buttermilk Pancakes
I’ve had a surprising number of people tell me they have a really hard time making pancakes at home. Here’s how I make my buttermilk pancakes, which I whipped up for The Angry Chef just the other day. How to Make Buttermilk Pancakes: Wait, pancakes made with…olive oil? Yep, yep. My original recipe calls for [...]
8-Cheese Macaroni & Cheese
I have three words for you: ultimate comfort food. Cover anything in cheese, and I’m generally a really happy mouse. The more cheese, the better. Eight cheeses? Now that’s my idea of heaven on earth. Now, this is not haute cuisine (though if you tried, I suppose you could call this a sort of White [...]
Rib of the Week: Cranberry Sage Pork Ribs with Whiskey Butter
There’s nothing like coating something in butter. I know it’s not the healthiest thing in the world, but man—is it good. For this dish, meaty, country-style pork ribs get frosted with a pungent whiskey butter, then dappled with fresh cranberries, garlic, and earthy sage. They get basted a few times as they roast with a [...]
Hot Buttered Rum Pecan Sundae
The topping for this sundae has all the rich, buttery flavor of pecan pralines—without the time or trouble involved in candymaking. Basically, this recipe makes a mini-batch of pecan candy by superheating a small amount of butter and brown sugar in a large pan, cooking the nuts in it, then flavoring it with a little [...]
Decadent Sweet Cream Rice Pudding
Rice has got to be one of my favorite foods. Fried rice. Buttered rice. Jambalaya. Rice crackers and krispies. You name it, I most likely have a closely-guarded stash of it in my cupboards. I especially love rice pudding. I can eat bowls of it at a time, which is why I don’t make it [...]
Rib of the Week: Pork Spare Ribs with Cocoa Spice Rub
These ribs borrow heavily from Mexican mole—that dark, rich concoction of onion, garlic, several different kinds of chili peppers topped off with a good dose of chocolate. You usually see it served most with chicken, but the flavors are also really well suited to pork. Chocolate and pork? Yep, chocolate and pork. Trust me. It’s [...]
How to Make Sourdough Bread, Part 3: Grilled Cheese with Prosciutto
This article concludes my series on how to make homemade sourdough bread. In Part 1, we looked at what sourdough starter is and how you can use it to make a sponge. Part 2 discussed how to bake that sponge into fantastically chewy, dense loaves of bread. Welcome to Part 3, which I think is [...]
Split Pea Soup with Homemade Pork Stock
This soup was a happy accident. Normally, I make split pea soup the way a lot of folks do: I simmer split peas in water with garlic, a handful of diced carrots and onions, and, of course, a ham hock. The ham hock gives the soup its signature smokey saltiness and deep flavor. Now, when [...]
Oatmeal Walnut Chocolate Chips Cookies
I think the weather’s finally officially turned colder here in Boston. Let the baking begin! These hearty cookies are really buttery and somewhere in between chewy and crisp. They’re speckled with oatmeal and studded with walnut chunks and chocolate chips. A touch of molasses turns them a rich brown and gives them an almost toffee-like [...]
