Food Fight: Who Gets to Cook Ethnic Dishes?

This is ridiculous. Give me a freaking break.

Start Off 2017 Right

With some delicious breakfast/brunch/"any time you can finally face being awake and upright" items, of course!

As for me, I'm on my third coffee of the morning ...

MM in the Kitchen: Bucatini with Butter-Roasted Tomato Sauce

Here's a great little pasta dish. Serve with a crisp green salad. Enjoy!

MM in the Kitchen: A Different Dessert for Thanksgiving

Pumpkin pie is so predictable, darling!  Shake things up with a lemon pistachio cake!

Thanksgiving Recipe Festival!

The big day is nearly here, my darlings. Need some recipes? Here you go!

• Crispy sweet potato roast. Please do not desecrate lovely sweet potatoes with marshmallows!
• Mashed potatoes. Carb-errific! Please pass the gravy. 
• How about these pretty potato stacks made in a muffin pan? They look like roses!
• The ever-reliable Alton Brown offers his own version of green bean casserole.
• How I do green beans: steam or blanche them briefly, and then saute for a couple of minutes in olive oil and garlic. Add a little salt and pepper, and that's it. They should be bright green and just a tiny bit crisp, not mushy. Try a bit of fresh lemon juice on top at the last minute for a tangy variation.
• Roasted parmesan green beans are a nice option.
• Try some roasted Brussels sprouts!
• Cornbread dressing that's leaps and bounds ahead of the insipid white bread variety. Make your own cornbread, obviously.
• If you already have the gorgeous cornbread dressing, you probably don't need dinner rolls (they're just filler anyway), but I know some people insist on them, so here's a recipe from King Arthur flour, and I have to admit that that flour is excellent.
• Try making your own cranberry sauce if you don't want the canned kind.
• Finally, the main event: Horrify your vegan friends and delight your fellow carnivores with a spectacular bacon-wrapped turkey. (Need a refresher on how to carve said turkey?)
• Dessert: So many options! I'll leave you to pick your favorite(s). I always go for pumpkin pie first myself.

Edible History: Pekin Noodle Parlor in Montana

It's the oldest continuously operating Chinese restaurant in the country! Pekin Noodle Parlor first opened its doors in 1911. The first documented Chinese eatery in the US is San Francisco's Canton Restaurant from 1849, but Pekin Noodle Parlor is the oldest still in business.

Nerd News: Ice Cream Class!

MM in the Kitchen: Buttermilk Roast Chicken

Fast, easy, and  delicious.  Thanks, Nigella!  Serve with a crisp green salad since we're all trying to eat more healthily after the unabashedly rapacious caloric orgy of the holidays.

MM in the Kitchen: Olive Oil Chocolate Mousse

Everybody's predictable resolutions to diet and exercise don't kick in until January 1, so you can still indulge a teensy bit, right? 

"The Saudi Arabia of Maple Syrup"

Smuggling, shenanigans, and skulduggery!  Oh, Canada.

MM in the Kitchen: Kimchi Mussel Bouillabaisse

East meets West as a Korean food icon meets a French one!

MM in the Kitchen: History via Recipes!

Specifically, recipes from 1600-1800.  Edible research!

Quirky Asia Files: Eating Autumn Leaves in Japan

Yeah, it's a thing.  Those fried leaves look good, though!  I wouldn't mind trying them.

Nerd News: School Lunches From Around the World

Lunch time!  OK, not to cater to national stereotypes, but I gotta call it as I see it: that British lunch looks completely disgusting.

Food Fight!

Edible things as racial metaphor. 

Quirky Asia Files: Japan's Black Cheeseburger

Hungry?

MM in the Kitchen: Grilled Peaches

OK, technically I'm not in the kitchen per se ... but you really need to try grilling peaches.  You don't even need to follow this recipe.  At the end of your next cookout, just throw some (halved and pitted) peaches on the grill (use that residual heat) until they get those lovely grill marks, serve them with vanilla ice cream, and be hailed as a hero by your kith and kin.  Peaches not your thing?  Try grilling pineapple.  Aw yeah.

Crazy For Kimchi: The Rise of Korean Food in the US

What's not to love?  One of my favorite dishes is bulgogi.  So good!

Cakes In Spaaaaaaaaaace!

On this 45th anniversary of the lunar landing, Cake Wrecks is celebrating with a gallery of cakes that are out of this world!

Awesome Monday Therapy: Coffee-Glazed Doughnuts

Yes, you read that right!