Glazed Grapefruit Teacake

One afternoon Piper and her friend Kent came over to play one of their usual afternoon games of Risk. Kent was rather upset because he had just accidentally bought a bag of grapefruit instead a bag of oranges. "I hate grapefruit," he said grumpily. I made him a Tarte Tatin and he felt better.

But the point of this story was that Piper and I wound up with a bag of grapefruit that has been sitting in our fridge for a good long while without much use. I enjoy a half of grapefruit with breakfast on special occasions, but usually breakfast consists of the same cereal combination I've been eating since age five.* Don't mess with a good thing, that's my motto!

How to Roast A Chicken

How does one roast a chicken? Well, one could do it with stuffing. Without. Rubbing butter on the skin. Marinading. Stuffing the chicken with a duck stuffed with a pigeon (if you're not into the whole brevity thing). After this last foray into chicken roasting, however, I've become firmly convinced that the best method is the simplest one of all.

What Would Keller Do?

Answer? In all likelihood, he would make a meatball. Like most culinary enthusiasts, I revere Thomas Keller as a deity. A benevolent deity, whose sublime cookbook Ad Hoc at Home is chock full of bad puns like Keller cradling a certain eating implement with the caption "I love to spoon." How can you not love a guy like that?