Chefs
Hi, we are Bryan and Jessie - a recently married couple who enjoys cooking at home, eating at our favorite local restaurants, and trying new restaurants and recipes. We also have two pets - Brew, a black lab, and Alton Brown, a domestic shorthair.
Foods we couldn't live without: blue cheese, potatoes, gin, popcorn, garlic and butter
Number of cookbooks we own: 57 and counting
Favorite kitchen tools: Shun knives, Le Creuset cookware
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Gardening Archive
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Stuffed Pizza Tomatoes
As we’ve written in the past, Bryan and I like to cook together – we’ve been each other’s sous chefs and we have split meal duties. The other night, we were able to be in the kitchen together after what seems like a long few months of work, events, travel and losses in our family. [...] -
Summer squash and zucchini gratin
Our squash and zucchini are officially dominating the garden this season, meaning I’m having to come up with new ways to use both. Tonight I followed a simple traditional gratin method with great success. It’s hard to measure out the exact amounts you’ll need for this recipe, but I used two one-pound (or so) summer [...] -
Product Review: AeroGarden
Bryan planted basil, dill and thyme a few days before Christmas and we started picking basil within a month. -
Mint Ice Cream Recipe Review
We planted mint in our garden last year and quickly learned how delicious, and invasive, it can be. Fresh mint smells great and, let’s face it, who doesn’t like picking fresh mint from their garden for mojitos in the summer? We haven’t made ice cream in quite some time. In fact, it has been almost [...] -
Sweet corn with pea shoots
For the last week I’ve been delicately tending to my pea shoots as they sprouted from seeds on the kitchen windowsill. I just recently tried “sprouting” for the first time, and wanted to find an interesting way to try the first of many sprouts to come. Right now we have snow peas, broccoli, mustard and [...] -
Starting a vegetable garden
So we’ve been slacking off in publishing new blog posts recently, but I think we have a pretty good excuse: we’re starting a vegetable garden. Now that the ground is thawed and warm days are ahead, we started working in the back yard (since this will be our first full summer in the house). I [...]