One of the myths that I love to destroy is that I spend most of my day slaving away in the kitchen. It’s true that I sometimes spend most of my day slaving away in the kitchen (example), but that’s rare. In actuality, Betsy and I eat a lot of leftovers, leftovers repurposed into new meals, [...]
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Latest Food Blogs from Macheesmo
Spinach Artichoke Cups
I’m about to toss out a trick that caterers across the world don’t want you to know. You ready? It’s this: You can make stuff look classy by putting it in a baked cup. It’s true that stuff is a lot easier to eat when it’s in an edible cup, but I’ve never really understood [...]
Guess the Food: 71
The thing that always fascinates me when I look at processed food ingredients (which I do often) isn’t the crazy chemicals or things I can’t pronounce. Most of the time what surprises me is just the shear number of things in a food. This guess the food features one such item. By my count, which [...]
Pretzel Chip Cookies
One of the things that I really like to do when I’m coming up with a recipe is turn stuff inside out. Put what’s normally on the inside on the outside. If you have a good flavor combo, it keeps that combo but can give you really interesting, new textures. Now that you’re kind of [...]
Breakfast Sliders
Sometimes I have these dreams of opening a restaurant that’s only open for breakfast and happy hour. I would make awesome breakfast/brunch dishes and cocktails. The place would be called The Before and After. Then I wakeup and remember how much I would absolutely hate my life if I ran a restaurant. But if The [...]
The Internet Kitchen: A New Hobby
This week I finally made the leap and purchased a sweet mountain bike. I’ve rented them a few times to go out on trails around our house and I finally decided that I liked it enough to justify the rather hefty price tag. Luckily, I was able to buy a used one off of a [...]
The Taco Stack
Betsy would like to thank all of you who voted for the Tex-Mex dish in last week’s poll. She didn’t actually vote and when she saw the results she sighed a sigh of relief. “I can’t believe you almost had to make a cake. Over Tex-Mex. I would’ve been mildly upset.” Of course, I explained [...]
Spicy Pickled Okra
One of my cooking resolutions for the year was to start canning and pickling food. I love the idea of having a pantry full of delicious pickled foods and jams that I can hit up anytime I want. I also happen to love pickled foods. One of my absolute favorite pickled foods is okra. Spicy [...]
Three Years of Learning
Sunday was my three year blogiversary which I think makes Macheesmo solidly middle-aged in the blog world. To be completely honest, when I posted my first post three years ago, I had no idea that I would still be doing this every day three years later. I had no idea that I would get thousands [...]
Grilled Chicken Alfredo
I was at a conference last week in Los Angeles and I had what might have been the worst catered lunch I’ve ever had in my life (that really says something by the way). It was some sort of strange chicken alfredo business that I’m almost positive was from a jar. Not to mention it [...]
The Breakfast Tostada
Betsy has began expressing some frustration in my new work schedule. Not because I’m at home where I can cuddle with the manimals anytime I want, but mainly because it means that she occasionally misses out on brunch. You see, I used to cook my weekend brunch posts the week before I would post them. [...]
