Minimalism. Mindfulness. Munchies.
I just adore Indian food, but I’ve never had the courage to try to cook it at home—UNTIL NOW! I was inspired by a recipe for tandoori-style chicken in my Everyday Food magazine recently because it looked awfully easy, not to mention cheap. The recipe calls for a whole chicken, which (since I try...
I don’t think the word “salumi” entered my vocabulary until a couple of years ago, but when it did—hoooo, boy! Suddenly, cured meats are everywhere, on restaurant menus, on pizzas and sandwiches, as the backbone of my favorite gourmet market in Boulder. Heck, I even know a nice young couple in Lyons who cure...
Today’s Kitchen is a series of posts documenting my adventures cooking through the recipes from my grandmother’s 1950’s era cooking show of the same name. These are genuine retro recipes, updated (as needed) for a modern table. Have you noticed how many meals are being made in muffin tins these days? You need...
My husband just LOVES the creamy lemon and caper pasta at our local Sweet Tomatoes restaurant, so I decided to try to make it for him at home. I found a recipe from Souplantation (owned by the same company as Sweet Tomatoes), but I couldn’t bring myself to make it as heavy as the...
The name of this website, Laughing Lemon Pie, comes from a cooking mishap that has become the stuff of legend in my family. Many years ago, my grandmother made a lemon pie for the family, but something must have gone slightly awry in the kitchen, because as the pie was served, everyone noticed immediately...
Oh, sweet spring! It’s come early in Colorado, with unseasonably warm temperatures and no snow this March—which is usually our snowiest month. But I was ready for a little green to start poking through the brown. I am ready to be done with winter for this year, ready for things to be growing and...
We really didn’t know what to expect with this recipe. I mean, the ingredients are innocuous enough, but with a name like “omelette puff…” Turns out, these are pretty tasty, if a little unusual. They have a nice, fluffy, slightly spongey texture. The other nice thing is that they lend themselves almost infinitely to different toppings; pretty much...
I have something very shameful to admit. I bought an ice cream machine in October and only finally put it to use last week. It had been sitting in my garage, lonely and unused, all that time. But when I finally did use it—well, it was definitely worth the wait! About two weeks ago,...
I’ll admit, when I got my Grandmother’s collection of more than 180 recipes from her 1950s-era television show, Today’s Kitchen, I was a little daunted. I knew I wanted to cook my way through it, but where to start? Should I start with recipe No. 1 and just work my way through numerically? Or...
When I was home over the Christmas holidays, I had a chance to chat with my grandmother about a certain recipe collection she had been holding on to for quite some time. You see, I come by my foodie tendencies honestly, and perhaps even genetically; my grandmother, Joan Carter Archambault, worked for the television...