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I found this recipe on About.com ages ago. It claims to be the recipe for the baked beans served at Durgin Park restaurant in Boston. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do know that these are the best baked beans I’ve ever tasted. They take a long time to make, but there’s very [...]

I had a craving for chicken and rice soup the other day and was looking for an easy way to make broth without resorting to canned broth. Allrecipes.com has a recipe that’s a compromise between canned and homemade broth. It uses a pre-cooked, store bought chicken and simmers the skin and bones in a mixture [...]

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I love fish with coconut flavors, so I fell in love with this recipe as soon as I saw it in  the July 2006 issue of Gourmet magazine. I made it again last night and decided it was about time to get a picture of it up on this site! Sriracha, if you’ve never had [...]

I guess you never know where inspiration will strike. I just finished reading From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz. One of the characters proves to be most at home in the kitchen. At one point in the story he makes a batch of chocolate chip cookies with coconut and pecans for his [...]

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A breakfast place I used to frequent had samples of a pumpkin spread made from a mix. It was amazing! Served with graham crackers it tastes like you’re eating pumpkin cheesecake. I grabbed a box of the mix and decided I wasn’t paying that much for what was essentially a blend of spices with a [...]