Happy Thanksgiving
November 27th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Food, Home |
Be responsible. Don’t drink and drive, and don’t overcook your turkey.
The Price Is Right
November 26th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Food |
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
Grilled Paella
September 17th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Food |
Paella has been a staple in the cafeteria here at tom-mcgee.com world headquarters for over twenty years. Our crack team of chefs has prepared it more ways than you can think of, and has it pretty much down to a science. But the other week when the Times ran a recipe for grilled paella, they [...]
Tomato and Mozzarella Salad
July 22nd, 2008 | 0 Comments | Food |
This is a great recipe — easy and everybody loves it. Even my kids went for it — despite it being a salad — when they were little tots. But you have to be really, really picky when you go shopping.
Inland Empire
March 21st, 2008 | 24 Comments | Food, Movies |
When you watch an interview with David Lynch it’s always surprising how totally normal he seems. Once you get past the hipster hair style he’s got this unpretentious gee-whiz enthusiasm about things. Did you know he’s a vegan, or at least a vegetarian? He shows us how to make quinoa (pronounced kin-WAH) with organic broccoli, [...]
Staggeringly Good Rib-Eye Steaks
February 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Food |
Cooked some rocking good steaks last night. Here’s the Method…
Smoked Trout Mousse
September 6th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Food |
I made this last weekend to bring to a party, and from start to on-my-way-out-the-door was under an hour. And that’s including the fairly tedious carved-out tomatoes business. 
Fish Soup
August 3rd, 2007 | 0 Comments | Food |
We all have our comfort food vices. When I’m at home alone I enjoy making fish soup. Go figure. No one else in the household appreciates it, so I treat it like a guilty pleasure.
One of my favorite cookbooks is “A Tuscan In The Kitchen.” The author’s recipes don’t have measurements, temperatures or timings. [...]
Eat Pretzels
January 23rd, 2007 | 0 Comments | Food, Tech Stuff |
Wherever you are in our viewing audience, if you need a quality salty snack check out Martin’s Pretzels. And I’m not just saying that because I just finished re-doing their web site. They make a terrific product, really hard, crunchy and salty.
I Was Just Wondering
November 28th, 2006 | 4 Comments | Food |
Is there a word for the feeling you get when you get too much wasabi at once and if feels like your sinuses are about to burst into flames? What if someone made a wasabi slurpee — could you get that and a brain-freeze at the same time?
Bread
November 19th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Food, Home |
Back when I started cooking, I used to try to make bread. The recipes I tried were a tremendously time-consuming, labor-intensive struggle against the ingredients, and I never quite won. Thanks to the NY Times’ Minimalist column last Wednesday, I found a winner.
Misplaced Trust
November 13th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Food |
We’ve become big fans of the “Trader Joe’s” franchise around here. Good quality, great prices, friendly service. I needed part of a bottle of red wine for a recipe I was making, and they had a special on bottles from the Robert Shaw vineyard. Yes, the “Jaws” guy. Thinking maybe he was doing the slumming [...]
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