Party Food Posts
Daring Bakers’ October Challenge: Thin-Crust Pizza
Last month, I joined the Daring Bakers, an online community of fabulous foodies and cooks who do a baking challenge every month. They provide the recipe, you provide the cooking. Their blogroll includes some of the savviest and intrepid bakers I’ve ever encountered. Definitely check out their amazing—and lengthy—list of food blogs. This month’s theme [...]
Celebrating Halloween in Salem, Mass. (a.k.a. Witch City)
With Halloween right around the corner, Salem, Massachusetts is THE place around Boston to get your spooky on. We spent last night up there, eating and drinking well into the early morning hours with a handful of close friends. Welcome to Salem, Mass., a.k.a. Witch City Salem is old. You can feel it the minute [...]
Garlicky White Beans, Two Ways: Dip & Creamy Soup
I have a great—and relatively newfound—love for white beans. (See? I do eat more than meat.) Here are two of my favorite ways to prepare them. The first recipe is for a thick dip that’s fragrant with garlic and lemon. The second is a creamy, spinach-laden soup that uses the dip as a base. A [...]
Homemade Meatballs: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Let me preface this by saying: I am not Italian. The Angry Chef is, however—and very much so—and these meatballs were more than acceptable to him. Regardless, I understand that I’m treading on hallowed ground for some. If you’re a meatball aficionado , please be kind to me. I’m just a little mouse. That said, [...]
Chocolate French Toast
If you find yourself with a stray loaf of chocolate bread in your kitchen, you can get into all sorts of devilishly decadent trouble with it. You could toast it and slather it with loads of creamy peanut butter. You could use it for a sandwich that evokes some of the flavors of a classic [...]
Rib of the Week: Candied Maple Sesame Ribs
I’ll say it again: I swear we eat more than meat. The ribs I made the other night got me thinking about other seasonal, autumn-y things I could do with beef spare ribs. These are a really interesting first course for a harvest-season dinner. Because they’re sweet, I think they’d be overpowering as the main [...]
Thick Crust Sausage & Cheese Pizza
This is another incidence of me combining homemade bread with pork products. If it happens again, I might just have a problem. I can admit that. While it’s not necessarily a fast thing to cook (you need a few hours to let your dough rise), this pizza is really easy to make. It feeds a [...]
Crispy Sesame Chicken Nibbles
Win friends and influence people with Crispy Sesame Chicken Nibbles! Just kidding. (Sorry, I had a very long day at work.) Seriously, though, I defy you to serve these at a party and not have them almost immediately gobbled up. These little bits have two of the qualities that I love in a dish: They’re [...]
Herb Roasted Chicken Legs with Root Vegetables
I know that fall is officially on its way when I start to roast chicken. Even though I bake pretty consistently year round, I’d never dream of roasting a chicken in the summer. For some reason, that’s a cold-weather ritual, at least for me. This roasted chicken/veggie combination makes a great, rustic autumn dinner. The [...]
Lazy Sunday French Toast
Whether you’re planning on having house guests, or your Labor Day festivities unexpectedly last all weekend, this is a great thing to serve for brunch. (Hey, I know at least a few folks with relentless and admirable stamina when it comes to extending an after-party.) This French toast is hearty and filling and is an [...]
