Category: The Laboratory

  • Now Eat This: Grilled Cheese

    When I read the recipe I thought, “We have a toaster oven at work.  I can totally broil this for lunch!”  And so it began. I found out at lunch the first day that our toaster oven does not have a sheet or drip tray of any sort.  I was tentative about the cheese oozing…

  • Now Eat This Zucchini and Eggplant Vegetable Lasagna

    I received Rocco’s book a few days before my girl friends were coming down for the weekend.  One was planning on making her awesome Arroz con Pollo but another is vegetarian.  I assured Veggie Girl that I’d handle her meals and when I saw this recipe I thought “I can handle this!” If your knife…

  • Rocco DiSpirito’s “Now Eat This”

    When I was Christmas shopping for the Boyfriend Chef I saw Rocco DiSpirito’s “Now Eat This” but was hesitant to buy it.  I already have so may cookbooks, some of them “diet,” and really how good can a 350 (or less) calorie serving be? Fast forward three months.  We’re at a family gathering and I…

  • Caramelized Butter Tarts

    The Boyfriend Chef & I love watching “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” on the Food Network.  Not so long ago they aired the “Ever made for the holidays” episode and we were determined to made Beau MacMillan’s Caramelized Butter Tarts. I fancy myself a baker more than a cook.  I like having a specific…