Urban Honking

In preparation for the morning after New Year’s Eve, we’ve been scouring our brains and books for something new and different. What we came up with was a newfangled application for an 80-year-old organism: Madam Yellott’s heirloom sourdough start. Meagan’s used this sourdough start to make some of the best cinnamon rolls we’ve ever gorged […]

We like to file this recipe adaptation under the ‘My-kid-just-went-vegetarian-what-do-we-make-for-Christmas-dinner?’ category. Because that’s exactly how we started making it. After all, back in the ’90s, before Food Network and Google booted the Joy of Cooking, the conundrum of cooking for a vegetarian at holidays usually meant dusting off the Moosewood Cookbook. In our case, mom […]

It is Christmas Eve, heathens. Time to make a chestnut fire, a batch of fresh bread and don wool socks. Of course, that can be a tall order if you have to, oh, say, work around the clock or spend Christmas apart from dudes and family. Our fallback many a winter — the only thing […]

There are few perceivable pillars of French cooking that are as widely and voraciously loved as scalding hot onion soup cloaked in a blistering layer of melted gruyere. Like many of the epic French dishes that cannonnize the cuisine of rural folk vegetarians usually remain wholly uninvited. How does one mitigate that beef stock in […]

With any luck, Lake Sharp’s widely popular and totally informative vimeo has all you Hot Knives devotees bottling your own pro-biotic elixirs and feeling rad. For those of you that did, you probably have huge, intimidating fungi festering in cabinets verging on frightfully successful sizes; we have another project for you. After a somewhat passive […]

We are not known for luxurious deserts — it’s not our thing. We get too full to fast; we prefer savory salts, the occasional soft, ripe bloomy artisan French cheese, and hard after dinner liquors. We gorge on calories in other ways. But for the holidays, when the fruit cakes and weird chocolate logs start […]

There will always be central aspects of the holiday season that are total bummers. For some its traveling long distances crammed up against smelly strangers in a metal box impossibly cruising tens of thousands of feet above the surface of the planet: screaming children placed at all corners like mentally mutilating motion sensors. Others sweat […]

After the haze of another thanksgiving wore off, we found ourselves at the farmer’s market with little drive to buy anything but green vegetables. Not knowing until later, when drunk on the Internet, that our little score of zucchini blossoms were literally what we were looking for we were psyched to see the vibrant colors […]

If the Good Doctor — upon burning through Baker and Barstow and pulling to the side of the desert highway to take a gibbering inventory of the drugs and booze — had not counted two quarts of Wild Turkey bourbon, but rather two bottles of this Wild Dog porter, rest assured the infamous burn through […]

Shazzzam! Our favorite food holiday is all up on us, and we’re getting hungry. The tradition around our homes the last few years has been what can only be described as Orphan Thanksgiving. (In Portland, we hear they celebrate something similar called Sharksgiving?) Whatever you call it in your town when a bunch of ragamuffin […]