As if I needed an excuse to make cheesecake, my mother sent me an email this past weekend asking if she could write a guest post on In Good Taste. Since the recipe she wanted to share is so-good-it-should-be-illegal good, I obliged (among other reasons). I did a little baking yesterday and snapped some photos to accompany her post. By Daryl Callahan I have asked Maris if I could contribute a guest post here so that I could honor my…
This post is one that’s long overdue. It’s long overdue because there are few things easier and more delicious than this pasta. I am obsessed with it. Of course, my obsession with avocados is nothing new but the idea of blending avocados into pasta was new to me when my friend Angie made it for dinner one Friday night. The fact that avocados are healthy for you is a delightful bonus. They’re rich, creamy and indulgent – all words that…
Buying salt at the grocery store is a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Being the kitchen commodity that it is, you would think that you’d go to the store and there would be one shelf devoted to one type of salt made by one brand and you could use this salt for everything: baking, making spice rub for grilled steaks and ribs and adding flavor to your favorite soups, sauces and salad dressings.…
When my friends and I get together to drink mojitos, trouble usually ensues. There was the time in college when my friend Alison and I, on a calorie cutting kick, decided to make cocktails with Splenda instead of sugar or simple syrup. I’m pretty sure “hangover” doesn’t even begin to describe what I felt the next day. And then there was Memorial Day 2010. We just won’t go there. Instead, let’s just talk about how the very sight or scent…
It’s a sad reality that when I have parties, dessert is often forgotten. No matter how much time I spend preparing a pie, cake or crumble it is inevitably overshadowed by the savory dishes, the cocktail table or my never-empty wine rack (really, if I had a dollar for every time someone said “how come you don’t drink all of this?” I would be in the Bahamas right now and In Good Taste, as you know it, would cease to…