Another week behind us brings another slew of cool posts to catch up on.  Quickly now - to the foodie blogosphere!: 30+ easy ways to make Ramen better How to make simple fruit vodkas (OMG - the photo above is from that great post too) Fine Cooking teaches you how to make really great french fries Mystery kitchen odors and how to fix them (it ...

I have long pitied the poor souls with an aversion towards mushrooms.  Delicious, meaty, chewy little healthy morsels that they are.  So versatile, such great texture - what a treat. This weekend's farmer's market exploration brought a veritable cloud of yellow oyster mushrooms into our kitchen - grown only a few miles away.  We brought home around about 1/3 of a ...

Another week, another bunch of meals that won't cost us an arm and a leg.  Lovely produce and some nice cheese, the goal is to use it ALL this time around... Breakfast: Ridiculously easy banana pancakes - great to use up those super ripe bananas (and freeze well too).  A little more mushy than your typical pancake, but I really dig them. ...

Thanksgiving must be terrifying for turkeys. Genocide on a plate much? Sure looking at a turkey kind of freaks me out, but that's why I'm not eating one this year (and also why I have a polymer clay robot turkey to head up this post instead of this guy, ahem). Keep your conscience easy and adopt a turkey instead - ...