Simple Roast Chicken

Many times I feel that people making cooking much more complicated that it needs to be.  Roast chicken is the perfect example of this phenomenon.  A brief search of roast chicken recipes online and in my cookbooks gives a bewildering array of procedures and complications.  I have seen procedures for turning, basting, trusing, shoving butter [...]

What I’ve been cooking…

Sorry for the unexpectedly long hiatus!  I’m working on a new post now.  Until then, here are a few photos of what I’ve been whipping up in the kitchen…
Cumin-crusted salmon with citrus butter and chive mashed potatoes…

Heirloom tomoato, basil, mozzarella salad….

Basil ice cream…

See you soon….

I’m back…..

Hi! Sorry for the recent hiatus. Writing a Ph.D. thesis has a way of sucking up all of your time. Now that I’m officially Dr. King I will be able to begin writing new blog posts again! To celebrate my accomplishment, I hosted a party this saturday for a group of [...]

Butter

This article from the New York times is so good I had to pass it along. It addresses something that we all take for granted in baking – butter. Apparently, many of the most common baking problems we encounter are caused by mishandling butter. I could say more, but just read the [...]

What is Travie eating?

- Sausage, Potatoes, and Garlic (recipe to follow soon)
- Brussels sprouts
- Braised artichokes
- Homemade ciabatta 
- Creamy scrambled eggs on said ciabatta

- Braised beef short ribs (this will be my next entry; check back later this week )
- The yummy pate de ville at Carmon’s
- Veggie chili (I’ll post this one sometime too)

Welcome to Chez Travie!

This will be my home on the internet to share many of my thoughts on food, drink, and to post accounts of my various (sometimes misguided) culinary exploits.  I should warn everyone up front that I have a background in science and find all the chemistry and biology that happens everyday in the kitchen to [...]

What Travie is eating…

Veggie chili & buttermilk cornbread
Omelette filled with Emmenthaler
Butternut squash and smoked Gouda pizza
Caramel nut tart from ‘Sunday Suppers at Lucques’
Homemade applesauce (made with fresh, local apples; yum!)