Tiny Test Kitchen

I thought that I would post this just in time for Memorial Day and also as, and I say this with a super straight face… tomorrow is National Hamburger Day! I really should not laugh as hamburgers are one of my favorite, favorite food groups (that’s right, I think of them as a food group […]

These old fashioned cookies with a peculiar name have been around since the nineteenth century, which in culinary terms really is not that long. There is much debate over whether they are a New English invention or from Germany or Holland, but there are a couple of things we do know for sure though. They […]

If I could make a type of food into a hug, it would be mashed potatoes. Nothing is quite as comforting or as reassuring as mashed potatoes. I could eat mashed potatoes for every meal – and I have occasionally done that, just ask anyone who has been at my house the week after thanksgiving, […]

Until I moved over to the States, there were so many traditional American foods that I had never eaten, let along tried. So when my husband and I first began dating I immediately asked what he favorite meal was. He told me that it was meatloaf with a red ketchup glaze, not covered with brown […]

Whenever my husband heads to work in the city I know two things are going to happen. One, he will be far later home than he says he is going to be, and two, he will rush out in between meetings and buy some awful sounding, bacteria laden sandwich from a hole in the wall. […]

Often I make dishes with ground meat, ragu, lasagne, meatloaf and I love to use a combination of organic ground beef, ground pork and ground veal. This usually results in my having leftover veal and pork. Not wanting to waste it I began looking for recipes that combined just these two meats. I simply could […]

Few things set restaurant-goers’ hearts aflutter like molten chocolate cake but no one realizes just how easy they are to make at home. With a little inactive time and almost no prep time you’ll have a dessert that will wow your guests. You can even fib and not let them in on how easy they […]

In Ina Garten’s most recent cookbook, Back to Basics, she mentions that in any well constructed menu you have to make a certain dish the “star”. The second I saw fresh, sweet unshucked corn back in my grocery store I knew that it would be the star of my dinner party. I began to plan […]

So day two of our dinner party menu brings us the main entree, brined pork tenderloin, following our Warm Goat Cheese Salad appetizer posted yesterday. As with the rest of the recipes this week, the amount of active time to make this delicious protein is laughable for something so delicious. It does, however, require a […]

Even though the weather channel is claiming it is 68°F in New York City right now, I cannot help but feel that the grey skies I am currently looking at, take off about 10 degrees. It is also not helping that I just looked again and found out that we have a chance of rain […]