French toast is a no-brainer, something even the non-cook can deal with. Some basic grocery store bread dipped in a mixture of milk and eggs, cooked until golden on a hot griddle – what is there to mess up? But French toast crosses over into gourmetland if it’s made with artisan bread, soaked in a…
I don’t know why the idea of homemade pasta sauce is so intimidating. Granted, if you’re thinking of starting with raw tomatoes, you’re signing up for some serious work, indeed, but a good pasta sauce that’s almost-from-scratch doesn’t need to be difficult. A few minutes at the stove and a little help from your crock…
I’ve tried a lot of oatmeal cookies, but this one has them all beaten. Adapted from a recipe posted on Smitten Kitchen, I was doubtful at first about the quantity of chopped pecans the recipe called for (2 whole cups – that’s a heck of a lot of nuts!), but I stand humbly corrected. I…
I love tooting the horn of a great breakfast eatery, and Metro Detroit is full of them. Located at 23144 Woodward Avenue, just north of 9 Mile Road in Ferndale (one of the Detroit area’s more hip neighborhoods), Toast is one of my Detroit standbys, and for plenty of good reasons. It doesn’t look like…
When Eli and I were first dating, and I started having him over for dinner during the week (prior to meeting me, the poor guy subsisted mainly on vending machine food, Wendy’s, Kraft Mac ‘N’ Cheese, and ramen noodles, and I couldn’t stand it), I regularly asked if he had any preferences about dinner, and…
It’s not all that often that I have overripe bananas on my kitchen counter (since I eat one every morning, they don’t hang around too long) but in really warm weather, or if I buy a bunch when it’s already fully ripe, I occasionally end up with three or four bananas past their prime. I…