Matthew Jacob has been helping the little dish behind the scenes for a while now—especially on the redesign. While he’s an art director by day, he’s also a great cook, a dabbler in “culinary projects” like baking sourdough or curing bacon, and a great resource for all knowledge related to kitchen tools.
I don’t want to be a cook just on the weekends, because how much of our lives are spent then? I’ll tell you. It’s 2/7ths.
So last week I sent out a call for your baking suggestions & was delighted at the response. Thank you so much, guys! Really, you sent some great ideas for holiday baking. I will definitely be making some Chocolate Peppermint Patty Cookies this week (via The Los & Lauren). Sam’s Genoise Cake sounds like a [...]
So it’s been strangely quiet here on the little dish, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense considering the holidays are like the playoffs for those who love to cook and bake (and eat, for that matter!) I have to take full responsibility for that. I’m a writer in an industry that’s really impacted [...]
Night before last I wanted to make a special weeknight dinner as a surprise. As usual, I turned to the domestic goddess, Ina Garten, for some inspiration. If you follow her show, you know that she focuses a lot on chicken as a primary ingredient. I like this because it’s a really easy way to [...]
Spent the evening just relaxing at the house and decided to make homemade caramel sauce for my ice cream! I was delicious and surprisingly really easy to make, especially considering I didn’t use a thermometer as suggested. I just judged it by color and it was fine. I have no idea why Ina’s recipe asks [...]
In celebration of last week’s historic inauguration, I decided to bake a batch of Michelle Obama’s Shortbread Cookies. The cookies were prepared as part of the inaugural festivities at the Ritz-Carlton by DC Central Kitchen, a charity organization that welcomes ex-prisoners and once homeless into its culinary arts program to open doors of opportunity. The [...]
Happy New Year! I hope that everyone had a really great holiday. Lots of relaxing and lounging around, but now it’s time to get back into things! I received three cookbooks for Christmas and was excited to try some recipes out, so my sister and I decided to bake cookies from The Ghirardelli Chocolate Cookbook [...]
‘Tis the season of baking! This weekend, I decided to bake biscotti and pair it with little coffee packages as gifts for my coworkers. Unfortunately, my go-to cooking mentor Barefoot Contessa doesn’t have a biscotti recipe So in this instance, I turned to the trusted cooking blog, Smitten Kitchen. Run by Deb, a true foodie, [...]
I don’t own very many cookbooks. This is mostly because you can find just about everything you could want online. Even recipes that I see made on the Food Network get posted on their site, so I’ve never had a big desire to rush out and purchase some celebrity chef’s cookbook. I also hesitate to [...]