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    December 20, 2011

    How To: Make Homemade Challah

    Photo by grongarChallah!​If you've never had Challah bread before, now is the time to try it. This slightly sweet, eggy bread similar to brioche uses oil instead of butter and is traditionally served on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays. Wanting to impress my Jewish fiancĂ© for Hanukkah, I whipp ... More >>

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    December 6, 2011

    Top 5 Gifts for the Baker

    Photo by King Arthur Flour​It's that time of year again - when we get give gifts to the ones you love. But what do you get for the baker who has everything? Check out our list for the top 5 gifts for that special baker in your life. If you play your cards right, you may even get some free dess ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Sugar, Sugar Book Launch and Cooking Class at Central Market on December 5

    I have confessed my lack of kitchen skills to you guys on several occasions, but my one true kitchen talent is baking. I love to bake breads and muffins and cookies, and with the arrival of the holiday season I have already been hard at work testing new recipes. So my baking antennae went up when I ... More >>

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    September 12, 2011

    Sourdough Bread: A Starter (Part One)

    Is it weird that I was humming the opening fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra as I whisked?​I grew up with freshly baked bread. The scent of dough proofing, and of crusty loaves baking in the oven, informs my sense memory from its earliest stages. I'm not quite sure where my mom picked up th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Mastering the Cookie with Alice Medrich at Central Market

    ​One of my favorite holiday traditions is baking cookies to pass out to my friends and family around Christmastime. This year, I decided to get a little help along the way by taking a cookie baking class at Central Market. Alice Medrich, dessert goddess extraordinaire, recently published her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    Top 5 Food WTFs

    emurrayIt's okay to call it a sampling.​Enough is enough. These food terms are overused. I'm tired of seeing them on signs and reading them on menus. Gastropub Here's the evolution of this word--first it was pub, then bar, then bar and grill, then bar and grille, back to pub, and now it's ga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Pizza for Breakfast

    ​A recent Tuesday found us on the patio of Luigi's Pizzeria for our daughter's bimonthly Brownies meeting. The girls were there to tour the restaurant and make their own pies. The troop traipsed through the kitchen and added sauce and cheese to the pies Luigi threw in his wood-burning oven for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Easy Almond Cake

    ​Easy. Delicious. Able to visually entertain young children. These are just a few of my requirements when baking a cake, and luckily, this almond cake adapted from Nigella Lawson's How to Be a Domestic Goddess meets all of these requirements. I will make pretty much anything Nigella writes abo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Chef Chat, Part 2: Randi Markowitz of Gluten Free Houston

    Tam Vo​Today we continue our chat with Randi Markowitz of Gluten Free Houston. EOW: What are the top three things to not do when cooking gluten-free? Markowitz: The first thing is to not leave out ingredients that mimic what gluten does. That would be most of the gums, such as xantham and gu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Where Are We Eating?

    A vase of fresh-cut flowers and the aroma of baking bread. Does the warm scene below look familiar to you? Think you know where we're eating this week? ​Leave your best guess in the comments section below.

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    Recipes: Dog Treats

    ​There is an entire shelf in my pantry devoted to canine fare that Lola, my one-year old Boston Terrier/French Bulldog mix, has refused. At one time the selection included Chew-eez, Yam Goods (okay, I'm not a fan of yams either), Greenies, Dentastix, Nylabones, Busy Bones, Mini Jumbones, Oinki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Barefoot Buttermilk Cheddar Biscuits

    ​Don't you sometimes want to kick off your Sunday shoes, get in touch with your feminine side and prance around the kitchen like Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa? Yeah...me neither. But I do enjoy trying out her recipes. This one came from her book Back to Basics, page 228. This was my first ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Recipe: Stromboli

    ​In recent months we finally learned how to make Momma's famous stromboli - that delicious turnover filled with meat and cheese. We're not of Italian stock, but it's a good bite. And while this should work with any white bread, we're including a recipe to try at the end of the entry. After yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Irish Soda Bread

    ​In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we bring you an Irish soda bread recipe courtesy of Rory O'Connell. Epicurious.com recently interviewed Irish chef Rory O'Connell about his experiences with Irish soda bread. According to Chef O'Connell, traditional Irish soda bread is made with flour, baking so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Top 10 Useful Kitchen Appliances That My Foodie Friends Make Fun Of

    ​Katharine Shilcutt's trashing of useless kitchen appliances really made me hot under the collar. I have all of those appliances -- except the electric cheese grater. And I intend to go buy an electric cheese grater this weekend. Then I will invite Katharine over for spaghetti and make her g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    The 10 Most Useless Kitchen Appliances

    YOU DON'T NEED THIS.​We talk a lot on this blog about eating. We talk a lot about cooking. We also talk a lot about booze, food porn and the "less polite" bodily functions (in case you're wondering, the "more polite" bodily functions include yawning and sneezing, but only if it's a cute sneeze ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    On the Question of PB&J

    ​After reading Katharine Shilcutt's screed on the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich, we thought we'd weigh in. Packing a lunch box for a kid in pre-kindergarten might sound like an easy matter. But here at our test kitchens, we follow exacting rules for the creation of peanut butter a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    Serbian Potica Bread

    ​Who doesn't like a good Serbi-Slavic treat for the holidays? Potica (po-TEET-za) is a popular European nut bread most often served as a breakfast treat, an afternoon snack, or a lightly sweet dessert during the nativity season. Never heard of it? For shame! Paper-thin walls of rolled dough ar ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2009

    3rd Annual Chocolate Festival of Texas & Texas Wines

    The Mayans and Aztecs were right about one thing - the fruit of the cacao tree is delicious

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Vegan Cinnamon Rolls

    ​This week I baked vegan cinnamon rolls. Before I started the project, I envisioned myself exhausted at 2 a.m. with my arms and forehead coated in flour, waiting for dough to rise for the second time before baking. I had never baked with yeast before and was anxious about an I Love Lucy-style ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    Sourdough Pizza in a Bread Machine

    ​Here's another way to use up that sourdough you have to get rid of every day if you have a culture going. Thanks to reader LW, who suggested Betty Sue as the name of my new sourdough. Betty Sue is looking real good lately. Especially in this bread machine pizza recipe. Making the dough is re ... More >>

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    August 20, 2009

    All In a Day's Work

    Making snowcones in Shikashika - sounds like a job description to us

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