Cooking

Cooking / Treats — 9 Comments
31
May 10

Iron Cupcake

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There have been many takes on the infamous television show, Iron Chef, which requires acclaimed chefs to square off and use their ingenuity to create a unique dish with a theme ingredient.

This past holiday season, I was treated to “Iron Liver” at my friend Dave’s house where secret ingredients including thyme and cranberry sauce were skillfully combined with a variety of hard liquors and assorted mixers to (mostly) palatable results. Now, there’s Iron Cupcake – a monthly event I recently discovered thanks to Leland Tea Company. This wonderful gem of a place deserves its own blog post so I won’t elaborate much about the venue beyond this point.

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Cooking — 1 Comment
21
Feb 10

Apron Strings & BrokeAss Gourmet Cooking Class

Apron Strings is also home to an elementary school on Guerrero between 25th and 26th streets.

Bless my mother’s heart: She has tried to encourage me to cook more often in order to save money and cut back on my calorie intake. And while I’ve tried to adhere to her advice, it just hasn’t been something I make a habit of enough. You’ll often see me tweeting the line “it’s always more fun with friends.” This concept not only rings true when it comes to exercising more often, but cooking falls under this category as well. When my friend Melanie forwarded an e-mail from Joffer, an online service that offers discounted deals (granted enough people opt-in to said promotion), advertising a cooking class for 50% off the regular price, I thought it was an opportune time to learn some of the basics of preparing a decent meal from start to finish.

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