Flaming Christmas Plum Pudding!
My husband Steve is an Englishman, and at Christmastime I like to treat him to some of his favorites like Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding, Stilton cheese with a nice port, etc. Yorkshire Pudding is very much like a savory turnover, the batter is poured into the sizzling hot beef drippings and then it puffs [...]
An Autumn Picnic
It was one of those days when the weather was absolutely perfect, the fall colors at their best. While I was reluctantly doing laundry in the basement my eye landed on a classic picnic basket that once belonged to my grandmother, but which I had not once used in the 20-odd years I’d had it. [...]
Buy Local Food–Support Your Farmer’s Market
We enjoy the chance to buy local food, so we walked down to the farmer’s market this morning, which is just a couple of blocks from our house. It’s that time of year in the Northern Hemisphere when the local harvest is at its peak. Just about everything our gardens can provide in the way [...]
Minimalist Photography – Food
This is a guest post by the Minimalist Cook’s in-house minimalist photography guru, food-tester, and husband, Steve Johnson. I asked him to write about photographing food for a general audience.–M. Food photography presents an interesting challenge in so much as the image has to be not only good from a photographic point of view but, [...]
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