I've been cooking a recipe recently of my own creation that I really like, and there isn't much similar on the internet, so I'm sharing the recipe here. It's a combination of two great things -- hot-smoking fish with wood chips in a stovetop smoker, and the fermented flavors of Hunanese cuisine. …

A thing that I do when I cook is to re-write the recipes I’m using (whether they’re from a cookbook or my own invention) onto a piece of paper in a very specific way. I think the approach I use is handy, so I’m describing it here in case you’d like to use it. (Or in case you need more evidence about how weird I am.) …

My newish cooking club had a dinner yesterday with the theme American Beer. I was tasked with dessert, and came up with this recipe for Pretzel Whoopie Pies. They turned out extremely well, so I thought I’d share the recipe here.

Sources:

• About.com Southern Food (basic whoopie pie recipe)
• Southern Living (Stout …

Hah, it rhymes! The fall haul (hah!) from the CSA inevitably means two things, root vegetables and ungodly numbers of pears. I love root vegetables, but tend to find pears to be pale imitations of apples. But when poached in red wine, or cooked with butter and sugar, pears can have some redeeming value. Recently, for …