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Mac and Cheese with Caramelized Shallots

Mar 10, 2010 6:30pm

I may be more than six weeks late to the National Macaroni and Cheese Month party, but every month is Macaroni and Cheese Month for this girl, so I'm still celebrating. I first discovered the event via Michelle at Brown Eyed Baker - one of my must-check sites that also...

Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread, Take 2

Mar 3, 2010 6:44pm

As I mentioned previously, this year I'm working to curb my expensive bread habit by baking bread at home. My mentors and guides in this process is the King Arthur website and Peter Reinhart's magnificent book The Break Baker's Apprentice. This experiment is additionally prompted by the fact that 1....

Pittsburgh Food Events - March 2010

Mar 1, 2010 5:00pm

Grow Pittsburgh: A Garden PrimerSeries of 3 classes; First session starts March 11$50I probably neglected to mention that last summer, Scheidt and I endured an epic gardening FAIL. I've always had success with herbs but lack a certain willingness to get my hands dirty, if that dirt is literal, not...

Homemade Graham Crackers

Feb 22, 2010 6:40pm

It seems like forever ago that I made the no-bake Daring Bakers Challenge Nanaimo Bars. In my snark, I may have glossed over the fact that there was, actually, a baking element to the challenge: these graham crackers.Let me be frank: unless you need gluten-free grahams, there is absolutely no...

Pumpkin Rigatoni with Sausage and Mushrooms

Feb 18, 2010 7:15pm

Is it three years too late for a confession?I started cooking seriously because of Rachael Ray.Cue sound of all readers leaving.As a kid, I learned how to follow recipes from my mom. In the beginning of my adult life, I applied that skill to recipes on the bag of Lipton...

Pittsburgh Food Events - February 2010

Feb 12, 2010 11:00pm

New on Burghilicious: from time to time, I'm going to give you a line-up of interesting upcoming food events happening in Pittsburgh - BEFORE they happen! If you hear of something that sounds interesting, drop me a line.6th Annual South Side Soup Contest12-3pm, Saturday, February 20None other than the esteemed...

Pennsylvania's Groundhog Wine Trail

Feb 8, 2010 3:06pm

When you think of wine country, you might think Sonoma. If you're me, you think Oregon, Grand Traverse and Niagara. But you could save yourself a great deal of time and money by thinking Pennsylvania.Even though north-central PA isn't the easiest place to grow grapes, that's not stopping the nine wineries of...

Daring Bakers: Nanaimo Bars

Jan 29, 2010 8:18am

You may have noticed the absence of Daring Bakers challenges on this blog for the past few months. Once it was cannoli, which are ok but not my favorite thing, and then it was a gingerbread house, which is cute but one usually doesn't eat it. Lord knows I do...

Frankly, Franktuary

Jan 24, 2010 6:54pm

Pittsburgh has its fair share of eateries with original food concepts. Take fries on your sandwich, for instance, or elevating pierogies from poverty fare to haute cuisine. But how about this for originality: a hot dog shop in a church with a penchant for promoting local, organic food.Co-owners Tim Tobitsch...

Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread, Take 1

Jan 17, 2010 6:26pm

Scheidt and I have a $7-loaf-of-bread addiction: Mediterra's rosemary olive oil bread. On occasion, we'll set for a $5 loaf: their multigrain ciabatta. This is great in the summer, when we can pick up a loaf or two or seven at the Farmer's Market in the Strip. It's more difficult...

Classic Meat Lasagna

Jan 10, 2010 9:00am

Though I've posted more than one lasagna recipe, my first love of lasagna is for the "classic": tomato sauce, ricotta cheese, meat. You'll also note that two of those recipes feature homemade lasagna noodles.I will admit now, before the Interwebs, that my food snobbishness has in fact progressed to the...

Burghilicious is 100

Jan 6, 2010 6:19pm

This is it, my 100th post!I started this blog 2.5 years ago. It took me longer to get to 100 posts than it has taken some other bloggers. Despite a few breaks here and there, however, this blog is one of my favorite things to do - other than the...

Chunky Ragu

Jan 3, 2010 5:51pm

What a whirlwind Christmas!If I had been on top of things, I would have taken lots of pictures and written lots of posts about all the delicious things that were consumed over the past 10 days, such as:- Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cookies- White Gull Inn Coffee Cake- French Toast Sandwiches-...

Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cookies

Dec 16, 2009 7:07pm

Never before have I spent a weekend making Christmas cookies, then had to plan to make more cookies the next weekend because the first cookies were gone.But these are so good we ate our personal stash within 5 days. The freezer stash is in grave danger of being raided, and...

Bacon-Wrapped Dates

Dec 3, 2009 5:36pm

A case study in stealing friends' recipes and passing them off as your own.Say you have a friend who is a vegan. Say you are not very good at vegan cooking (beyond perhaps salad and hummus.) Say you feel that you are constantly disappointing said friend and/or forcing her to...