WikiJan Cooks

     I love fall, in that I get to pull all of my “low and slow” recipes from off the shelf, dust them off and commence some mighty fine dinner making!  I took the plunge the end of last spring and bought an enameled cast iron dutch oven (Sadly not a Le Creuset..but soon!).  While […]

I think when it comes to Chicken Salad I like a whole lot going on.  Calling a bit of boiled chicken and some celery “chicken salad” is an abomination.  When one takes a bite of chicken salad you should have a variety of flavors and textures doing the Samba on your tongue. If your chicken […]

Hannah “Eat-a-Pretzel” is a wonderful young woman at The Big Green Machine, she is funny, thoughtful, kind and a riot to work with. You see “Eat-a-Pretzel” and I open most mornings during the week so we fall into a routine of busting out our daily tasks so we can chat and drink coffee between our […]

Little did I know that the morning The Hungry Neophyte entered Commerce Center and order his double short extra dry cappuccino (with 2 raw sugars if I remember correctly) that it would begin an interesting interacting between barista and morning regular.  I remember him coming up to me after finishing his meeting and complementing my […]