Achieving perfect sushi rolls at 8 in the morning

I’ve never made sushi at 8 in the morning until this past Wednesday happened. Drew promised people at his work I’d make sushi, and I knew making it the night before would make it dry and not nearly as appetizing by potluck time, so I decided to make it in the morning. This, of course, [...]

My Sushi Kick Continues: Tamago (egg) Madness!

I should probably accept the fact that my tamago (egg omelet) will never look perfect. Creating those fabulous rectangular pieces of egg with the rounded edges, the ones that perch delightfully atop a mound of rice in those scant few seconds before you stuff it down your gaping maw, requires a rectangular pan, whereas I [...]

Cook your tofu in the toaster for sushi madness

Recently, I was desperate for sushi. I also had a block of tofu that was desperate to be eaten. And I apparently had a toaster that was desperate to become potentially soy sauce flavored. So I combined all of these factors for beautiful harmony. First, I marinated the tofu. Pretty lazily, as it involved me [...]

Pi Day: Chocolate Pecan Pie

So for all of you in the know, this past Sunday was Pi Day (of the 3.14 variety). And now all of you *are* in the know, hooray! I was ill prepared for it, and did not have a pie (or a post about pie, for that matter) ready. So, Sunday evening, I decided to [...]

Whereupon I Get Creative and Pile Random Things Together

Sometimes I have ingredients in my fridge that don’t seem to coalesce in my head to anything I’ve ever actually made before, but they look tasty and convince me that they’d like to hang out together on a plate. Or I’m hungry for something, but it’s one of those hungers that does not know the [...]

Chocolate Cake Balls are the Balls of the Gods

Well, not literally, as in we’re not talking about male gods specifically here. More like, if gods ate food, and if they liked eating their food in ball form, this is the sort of food they’d be eating. For dessert. Unless they were really unhealthy gods, then they might just eat them all the time. [...]

How to make super easy thin crust pizza

You can use many things as a pizza crust (well, not counting actual pizza crust here). English muffins work quite well if you like a tougher crust. Bagels also work great – plain bagels as well as more exciting flavors like onion bagels. I don’t recommend cinnamon raisin or chocolate bagels, but then again, who [...]