December 2007
DecemberDec 29 Saturday 07
Sweet Rolls
In preparation for the morning after New Year's Eve, we've been scouring our brains and books for something new and different. What we came up with was a newfangled application for an 80-year-old organism: Madam Yellott's heirloom sourdough start. Meagan's …
DecemberDec 26 Wednesday 07
Stufflets
We like to file this recipe adaptation under the 'My-kid-just-went-vegetarian-what-do-we-make-for-Christmas-dinner?' category. Because that's exactly how we started making it. After all, back in the '90s, before Food Network and Google booted the Joy of …
DecemberDec 24 Monday 07
Beery Christmas
It is Christmas Eve, heathens. Time to make a chestnut fire, a batch of fresh bread and don wool socks. Of course, that can be a tall order if you have to, oh, say, work around the clock or spend Christmas apart from dudes and family. Our fallback many a winter …
DecemberDec 19 Wednesday 07
Belgian Onion Soup
There are few perceivable pillars of French cooking that are as widely and voraciously loved as scalding hot onion soup cloaked in a blistering layer of melted gruyere. Like many of the epic French dishes that cannonnize the cuisine of rural folk vegetarians …
DecemberDec 16 Sunday 07
The Sandwich Search
Our friends Ali and Evan who opened a bike-friendly, veggie-heavy caf
DecemberDec 12 Wednesday 07
Bad Mother
With any luck, Lake Sharp's widely popular and totally informative vimeo has all you Hot Knives devotees bottling your own pro-biotic elixirs and feeling rad. For those of you that did, you probably have huge, intimidating fungi festering in cabinets verging …
DecemberDec 8 Saturday 07
Apples on Apples
We are not known for luxurious deserts -- it's not our thing. We get too full to fast; we prefer savory salts, the occasional soft, ripe bloomy artisan French cheese, and hard after dinner liquors. We gorge on calories in other ways. But for the holidays, when …
DecemberDec 5 Wednesday 07
Headless Helper
There will always be central aspects of the holiday season that are total bummers. For some its traveling long distances crammed up against smelly strangers in a metal box impossibly cruising tens of thousands of feet above the surface of the planet: screaming …
DecemberDec 2 Sunday 07
Figgy Pudding & Grilled Fruits
Just like Thanksgiving, the December month is one long, beloved food holiday for us at Hot Knives, even though we typically try hard to disassociate our gluttonous chillin' from any of the uncomfortable religious undertones. This year, we decided instead to …