Continuing with the fresh herbs series this segment will focus on chives, their varieties and some common uses for the herb as well as a recipe too. The garlic chives variety shown in the photo are grown in a hanging basket that drops from a limb of the single diminutive Dogwood tree in our front yard. As you can see from [...]

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Butter is one of those basic larder ingredients that we always have on hand, among many other staples. And typically we will have a pound of Land O Lakes in the fridge at any given time, but there are betta buttas out there you know! On a recent visit to the NC Specialty Shops in downtown Wake [...]

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When I made the Dill Sauce for the Herb Crusted Salmon the other day I had to squeeze out some juice from a lemon so I decided to take a motion photo of my hand rolling and pressing the lemon to break up the flesh and pulp. I have been taking more photos of food among [...]

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There are two varieties of mint growing in our front yard, one is spearmint and the other peppermint. I love both, but the peppermint is much better in my opinion for making a Mint Julep or Mojito alcoholic beverage. The spearmint is highlighted in the close-up photo and the peppermint is the larger image displaying [...]

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DogHill Kitchen from Food Buzz  put this blog post up yesterday, so I thought about doing it too! This is a list of a hundred foods every omnivore should try and it comes from Andrew Wheeler, co-author of the British food blog Very Good Taste. In my 21 years in the restaurant biz I have come [...]

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