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Fall back into summer with Nectarine Cobbler

Fall back into summer with Nectarine Cobbler

By Scott Greenberg | September 23, 2014

I never had a good sense of timing, which is something you absolutely need if you’re going to be boiling things long enough for them to become tasty, but not so long that they spill over and cover your legs in molten flavor-lava.Unfortunately for me,...

Simple granola gives ginger a second chance

By Scott Greenberg | April 28, 2014

I’m not really one for ... “natural” medicine.Sure, I can appreciate a good bowl of chicken soup or a hot cup of Earl Grey when I’m busy blowing my own personal toxic waste dump out of my nose, but that’s about my limit. As soon as you start...

Carbonara is not grown up Mac & Cheese

By Scott Greenberg | April 14, 2014

So we’ve all heard the stupid, Sunday comics joke about carbonara/alfredo: “It’s just like mac & cheese for adults!” Har har, roll laugh track, throw pie, etc.And yeah, after you get past the, “Gee golly, isn’t that just a hoot and a holler”...

Banana bread from boring to exciting

By Scott Greenberg | April 7, 2014

Banana bread is pretty much one of the most boring culinary inventions in the food world. It’s not even something most people try to make on purpose, they just remember that they have some bananas in the freezer and figure “Hey, this is marginally...

No apologies for bread pudding

No apologies for bread pudding

By Scott Greenberg | February 3, 2014

As your half-blinded and all-the-way hungover eyes are oozing their way over the brunch specials, you see it. French toast, stuffed with things and topped with more things. I’ll have five of them.But suddenly you see an equally delicious, moist-but-not-too-moist...