The Ashley/ Alton Project A compete, one-year cooking journey through "Good Eats: The Early Years"

My other ‘chef-crush’ is a man who goes by the same initials as our wonderful AB: Anthony Bourdain. His masterful sarcasm needs another word define it… and his cynicism… well, hell give that another word too! Though between all of his skillful negativity, when he is happy, truly happy with something

My lovely sister Stephanie is lucky enough to be spending this semester studying abroad in Italy and traveling Europe (tough life, I know.) She has never been away from home for so long… or so far away, and I miss her quite a lot. Though I think my cell phone bill will be lower without [...]

*Gasps for air* Ok… this entry covers three different nights and three different meals. Catchin’ up! Here we have Masher Cakes… these were actually NOT featured in the “This Spud’s for You” episode! These were added into the book specially… so top-secret recipe you only get if you’re a privileged bo

I think… well no, I’m pretty damn sure that I am now the proud owner of a full fledged addiction to cooking. In the past month’s NON Alton cooking adventures I made my very first batch of fresh pasta, several varieties of bizarre cupcakes, buttercream frosting, enchiladas, perfected pad woon sen, eg

I have not died… no. There was no tragic sauce attack or exploding meatloaf. In fact, it’s a much less exciting story involving me being inconveniently busy and slightly lazy after my busy days. Turns out this entry stuff is still more time consuming than the cooking… which I have been keeping up wi

Today is an exploration of one of the more recent episodes of Good Eats: “Live and Let Diet”. This answers many questions from Good Eats fans about AB being ill/ not well… causing noticeable weight loss. Simply not true. 50 lbs down in 9 months sure ain’t bad… especially when you do it on a [...]

Today’s menu: “Meatloaf Again” “Mashers” While I would advise against eating this raw, as I tried to do, apparently… this meatloaf, once cooked, is a complete departure from any and all meatloaf I had ever had. This recipe completely changed my opinion of meatloaf from “blech… why?” to “hell yeahhhh

Ok… so, in reality these recipes were completed and devoured about 3 weeks ago. Oy. Is it weird that the time consuming part of this mission has been the blogging? It’s somehow not the cooking/ shopping/ planning? I find that strange… but it is certainly true. I find myself with a back-up of recipes