Of all the doughs (bread, pie, short dough, and pasta), pasta dough may be the simplest – aside from a few bread recipes. Most pastas are a mix of just flour and water. Enriched pastas add eggs to the mix, giving the pasta a richer color and flavor. And then there are specialty doughs like...

Another early morning and another day of watching a quiet world bestir itself into a hive of  activity. I watch from afar, taking solace in my cold, quiet kitchen. I watch as sunlight slowly begins to pour into the room, and wait as the warmth of a heating oven robs the room of its dawn...

There are two things I can’t get enough of. One is bread – I love every and all breads. The other is grilling and cooking over an open flame. Combining the two puts me in a sort of culinary heaven. And that’s exactly what this loaf of focaccia is, culinary heaven. When you begin to...

My mornings, like much of my waking life, is fraught with routine and familiarity. Without the aid of an alarm clock, I wake up at the same time every day –  5:52 A.M. It’ll take me all of thirty seconds for my heavy arms to find their way to my cell phone; I check the...

In case you weren’t aware, I run another site all about cocktails, mixology, and being a man. I am of course talking about The Boys Club. Today,  I’ve shared a post that breaks down the basics of glassware and explains why there are so many different kinds of glasses! Check out the Mixology 101 –...

Note from Russell: Hey, guys! Today I’ve got a very special guest from one of my absolute favorite dessert blogs, Cookies and Cups. If you haven’t been, you need to go right on over. Shelly, the genius behind Cookies and Cups, never ceases to amaze me with her recipe creations – talk about guilty-pleasure desserts...