Buffalo Chicken Chili

Buffalo Chicken Chili

The holidays are coming up, and for many of us, this means a lot of time spent cooking in the kitchen.  Between Thanksgiving dinner, holiday cookie exchanges, Christmas morning breakfast and feeding any family and friends who stop by for an evening or weekend visit,...
My gadgets are abandoning me

My gadgets are abandoning me

During the last few weeks, my kitchen has decided to do a purging of its own. For some reason, the gadgets which we have been using for the last 5 or so years have begun to break. My guess is that they just reached the end of their useful life cycle (and probably had...
Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings

Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings

There are few things in life quite like true Buffalo chicken wings. And although I’ve never eaten them in Buffalo from “the source,” I have sought out the best wings I could find wherever we have lived, from Miami, FL, to Frankfurt, Germany. But by the time we reached...
Chanterelle Mushroom Pasta

Chanterelle Mushroom Pasta

Since we are weekly visitors to our local farmers’ market here in Berlin, it’s not difficult to see the seasons (and the foods) changing right before you eyes. And one of the more exciting things that floods the market are chanterelle mushrooms (known...