Bring To Boil

Can you get “slow food” out of quick steps?  Turns out, yes.  Three nights in a row we ate really well, even though I was feeling deeply lazy. The only thing keeping me from ordering pizza delivery on Saturday was that something was about to go bad in the fridge. 
Monday’s polenta squares started as Saturday chicken guilt.   
Saturday
The “use or freeze by” date [...]

Double Chocolate Indulgence

Would I call this a chocolate cookie?  It’s airy and crisp on the tender surface, deeply cake-soft inside, and it’s dotted with wicked, molten chocolate hotspots throughout.   Having only one is not an option.  Cookie?  It’s more of a dark seduction. This is the kind of recipe to splurge on the finest chocolate, because you might be making [...]