That was seriously amazing. Screw modesty. The onions themselves got to a milk chocolate color and the soup itself ended up being a dark chocolate color. No lie. And 3 lbs of onions went into only 4 servings of soup. I'm seriously considering making a double batch tonight so I can have it all week at lunch.

I have started the full-day French Onion Soup recipe. It involves caramelizing the onions multiple times over ~4 hours before adding anything else. Let me tell you, once you get past the first pound of onions, your eyes give up and just succumb to a low-level burning and tearing ( Read more... )

I just made some AMAZING pasta sauce. Screw modesty; this stuff is FANTASTIC.

Olive oil, garlic, fresh tomatoes from the garden, red wine, fresh basil from my plant, dried porcini mushrooms (and the hot water they soaked in) simmered for hours, and salt/pepper. Then some mascarpone cheese melted into it.

I COULD DRINK THIS, MAN.

Erica and I went to Inn Season Cafe yesterday for dinner. It was the first time I had gone there and it is fantastic ( Read more... )

Yesterday Chris and I got Jerusalem Pizza for dinner. It's a kosher pizza place that's 90% vegetarian (they have fish) and they have a ton of awesome specialty pizzas (warning, the menu is like, 2+mb ( Read more... )

Mike (my boss) is coming back from vacation today. His birthday was a couple of days ago; we all decorated his office and one of my co-workers is buying pizza for everyone. I volunteered to make the cake ( Read more... )

http://www.finewaters.com/

Reading this site is fascinating, but they make wine snobs look like Rednecks who think Boone's Farm is high class. Just read the water descriptions and classifications!