Food is a part of life. It’s fuel, but I can’t help wanting a full sensory explosion. It goes beyond taste, to the colors, textures, and nostril filling pleasures. Sweet and savory, crispy and creamy — I love complex dishes and variety.
Unless you have deep pockets and can teleport around the world, you gotta know your way around the kitchen.
I don’t care about extravagance. I want simple, versatile and flavorful. And I want to eat real food.
Let’s break things down.
Skills & Knowledge
Wanna build a useful cooking foundation?
Systems & Tools
Keep the kitchen gadgets you actually use. Toss the rest.
Recipes
This isn’t meant to be a cookbook. I can’t tell you how much anything makes, serving size or the calories. If you’ve got food experience, you should have a reasonable sense for things. If not, learn by doing.
If you make a recipe and take better pictures that I have, I’ll replace mine with your! Just post them and tag me.
Foundational Recipes
Personal Favorites
- Apple Pie
- Cherry Pie
- An
- Shrimp Scampi
- Orange Cilantro Shrimp
- Sushi Bowls
- Unstuffed Cabbage
- Drunken Noodles
- Pad Thai
- Tacos
- Gourmet Tuna Salad
- Mango Black Bean Salsa
- Cajun Parmesan Salmon
- Shrimp My Way (needs better name)
- Edamame Hummus
- Sweet Potato Brownies
- Zucchini Brownies
- Chick Pea Cookie Dough
- Fajitas
- Gyros
- Lamb Roulade with Mint Pesto
- Carbonara
- Florentine
- Tomato salad
- Insulata Caprese
- Chili
- Ministrone
- Thai Curry
- Indian Biryani
- Cauliflower Pizza Bowl
- Cream of crab soup
Family Recipes
Recipes from both sides of my family — Italian and German.
Posting to keep them alive so they don’t die off with the elders.
- Italian Meatballs
- Carm & Theresa’s Sauce
- Italian Wedding Soup
- Italian Fried Chicken
- Pèttele – Fried Bread Dough
- Gnocchi
- Broccoli Rabe
- Snowballs
- Oil Cakes
- Wine Cookies
- Honey Bows
- Chicken Corn Soup
- Sand Tarts
- Pizzelles
Desserts
- Snowballs
- Apple Pie
- Cherry Pie
- Anisette Cookies
- Chocolate Mint Cookies
- Cookie Brownie
- Italian Fig Cookies
- Ricotta Cheese Cookies
- Carrot Cake
