Stuffed peppers mean nothing to me. I have no attachment to them whatsoever. We never had them in my house growing up. I made them last night simply because we had the ingredients in the …

Every single element was perfect. But was the whole greater than the sum of its parts? Last night at 7:17, with the assistance of a glass of Soave, I constructed a peerless tower of power: …

I cocked up dinner once again last night. I swear it wasn’t my fault. I had planned to bake bread and do poached eggs with asparagus and Camembert (awesome, right?) but there was a mishap. The dough …

When I was a child, I was a judgemental and snotty little punk.
At some point in time, I had incubated and hatched  the notion that kids with glasses were either:
a)mentally handicapped
b) unloved, unwanted, socially inept …

We found beautiful fruit, vegetables and eggs at the mercado earlier today. In order to compensate for overindulging at our favorite neighborhood taqueria last night and a pizza feast of epic proportions planned for tomorrow, …

If you’re looking for something super simple, tasty and slightly lowbrow to make for dinner tonight, have I got the recipe for you.  Populism!  This is how I did it last night:
Ingredients

broccoli
italian sausage
penne pasta
olive oil
garlic
dry …

Last night I cooked a chicken upside down. No, not to serve some satanic cult of poultry, merely because I am scatterbrained. Fortunately, it turns out that I am incapable of ruining a roast chicken and we …

‘Cause it was friggin’ delicious. Also, chicken thighs! Here they’re called muslo de pollo and I’ve had  a package of these mofos in the freezer since before Christmas. I’ll admit, I was intimidated. Although of late I’ve become …

A bit of business to get out of the way before we begin: this is not “authentic” poc-chuc, and we’re not trying to make authentic poc-chuc. Why is that? The ubiquitous Yucatecan restaurant dish, which …