Simplicity.  Food doesn't have to be complicated.  This application can be done with two ingredients, pumpkins and salt.  The resu...

  My great-grandmother made pineapple upside-down cake all the time when I was a kid, and I absolutely loved it. I loved it so much, i...

  There is nothing like a warm soft pretzel.  There is also no time I realize this more than when I get one at a sporting event that...

  If I want meat in my pasta sauce, I usually just go for the ground beef.  It's so easy to just plop a hunk of ground beef in a ...

  When it comes to barbecue, I think of pulled pork, brisket and ribs.  The problem is, my favorite way to prepare ribs is not by barb...

  Okay, so I am just copying this post over from one of my other blogs, Family Tree-Eats .  I feel it is too good not to share here on ...

   I've done a few blog posts about pizza over the years here on latent chestnut.  In fact, one of my very first posts was about ...

  French Toast. Egg bread. Gypsy toast. Payn purdyeu. Not matter how you say it, this is Valerie's favorite breakfast.  And her f...

  Yes, there is life after Good Eats.  Altonbrown.com has done a nice job of churning out new AB applications over the past few years...

    Finding the perfect cheesecake recipe has been elusive for me.  I like Alton Brown's version in "I'm Just Here for ...

  Leftover mac and cheese?  Fry it up!  I have wanted to make this since I first saw the Good Eats episode air back in 2002.  Well, h...

The Chewy.  This could be my favorite Alton Brown recipe.  I know it is my most requested.  The Good Eats episode had three versions of choc...

  My dad got me a SodaStream soda maker for my birthday this year and I couldn't wait to get started on making my own syrups. This...

Fried chicken is hard to get right, at least in my experience.  I don't remember the first time I attempted Alton Brown's fried...

What good is making your own peanut butter if you don't have a fabulous peanut butter pie recipe to go with it?  I have been making my...

My goal before summer started, and before my garden was even planted, was to pickle something.  I had cucumbers in mind as the season start...

When I was young, I loved the strawberry cream pie from Moore's Pie Shop.  In fact, I even had one for my birthday one year instead of ...

Whenever I'm in the mood to consume an entire cobbler by myself, I make rhubarb peach cobbler.  I am the only one in the house who will...

As I eagerly anticipate the latest Good Eats book, I have come to the realization that I am going to have to clean out some of my homemade...

We are big fans of grilled eggplant in our household, so I was excited to make baba ghannouj for the first time.  I couldn't decide whe...