Archive for February, 2010

Just sent the last chapters off to the copy editor. My work as an author is almost done. Now what remains is to work with the designer on the look, work with the editors to get it clean, crisp and concise and then … the printer! »

One of my latest hairbrained ideas was to take Juan-Carlos’ blue cheese walnut snack recipe and turn it into a brittle. Good-natured JC went along yet again but pulled out a surprise of his own. I’d always made brittle with water and sugar as the base of the recipe but as I pulled ingredients... »

Last time I made fun of my abilities to sous vide. This time, its JC’s turn to take the fall. Last week we got together to work on one of the book’s wilder dishes, the Love Me Tender Peanut Butter Omelet Since a picture’s worth a thousand words, I’ll just say that Mr. Cruz used... »