This morning we reached the end of the 30-day Kickstarter campaign for my second cookbook, The Buslife Kitchen: Recipes from the Road. We set out a month ago to raise $15,000 to print the first 2500 copied of the book I’ve been working on for …
One afternoon at our first Skooliepalooza, while I was slinging samples and selling cookbooks, I heard a woman exclaim as she flipped through my book. She told me excitedly that she was Vietnamese, and she was very happy to see the chapter on Vietnamese recipes. …
French onion soup is a wonderful thing. But, if we’re being honest with ourselves, I think we’d all agree that the best part is that piece of bread on top, soaked with onion soup from beneath and covered with a layer of browned, bubbling cheese. Why not turn that best bite from a bowl of French onion soup into its own little canape?
This is one of my very oldest recipes, concocted long before I had the first thought of writing a cookbook. This recipe became a mainstay for me back in my college days, when I was super, super broke. There have been a few tweaks to …
It’s day 12 of the Kickstarter, and we are chugging along. As I write this we are at about 42% funding, and we’re exactly 40% of the way through the campaign. There is a long way to go yet, and I hope you’ll find the time to check out the Kickstarter page and pre-order yourself a cookbook (or book a Forest Feast). But first, let’s dig into another section of the cookbook. Next up is Holiday Recipes. The recipes in this section represent a variety of cuisines, but are primarily recipes like this one, Scallops in Brandy Sauce, which are a bit more complex or indulgent.
In my first cookbook, one of the sections was family recipes, made up of some of my favorite foods from my childhood. In the time between the first cookbook and the second, something happened which really changed my family: Ayana and I got married. My …
I am a real sucker for tiki drinks, and the Blue Hawaii is one of my favorites. It’s relatively simple as far as tiki drinks go, really only requiring one things that you aren’t likely to already have in your regular rotation, blue curacao. This …
I haven’t actually decided on the final order for the sections of the cookbook, so right now we’re just going through in alphabetical order, which means that section number two is Caribbean recipes. Caribbean food is, I think, a deeply underrated collection of cuisines. The melting pot of cultures in the Caribbean has created a lot of really incredible dishes. Some of my recipes are just my take on those, and some of them, like this icebox cake, are using Caribbean flavors in a dish that I know well. Continue reading Caribbean Icebox Cake
It’s day 2 of the Kickstarter, and the first day of recipes from the cookbook! Over the 30 days of the crowd-funding campaign I will be giving away one recipe from each section of the book right here on my website. The first section we’re …
