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Cooking with Dad

March 14, 2011 By PJ Mullen Leave a Comment

Cooking with Dad is a live video virtual cooking show sponsored by ConAgra Foods and hosted by TheMotherhood

Filed Under: Featured, Food Tagged With: ConAgra Foods, Cooking, Eddie Carroll, Family, Father, Food Network, Home, Parent

Being Michael Symon

February 22, 2010 By PJ Mullen 18 Comments

It should come as no surprise that I watch way too many cooking shows. If it weren’t for football and the Food Network I wouldn’t have much need for a television. Last week, after watching an Iron Chef America chocolate and chili pepper battle between Iron Chef Michael Symon and Chef Duff Goldman of Ace [...]

Filed Under: Dad in the Kitchen, Featured Tagged With: Alton Brown, Braising, Chili pepper, Cook, Food Network, Home, Iron Chef America, Michael Symon

The best laid plans

November 27, 2009 By PJ Mullen 22 Comments

With the effects of the tryptophan wearing off I thought I’d take stock of what transpired yesterday as I attempted to prepare our Thanksgiving holiday feast. As if it weren’t apparently obvious I was very excited about the plan I had for the day. The mission We were having a small Thanksgiving day gathering with [...]

Filed Under: Dad in the Kitchen, Fatherhood Friday Tagged With: Food Network, Los Angeles Times, Paula Deen, Smoking, Thanksgiving

Reinterpreting lasagna

November 11, 2009 By PJ Mullen 11 Comments

A few years ago I was watching Giada De Laurentis on the Food Network make a butternut squash lasagna. At the time my wife and I had only just met, but having had already cooked for her a few times I knew this would be something she would enjoy. I stuck to the script the [...]

Filed Under: Dad in the Kitchen Tagged With: Butter, Butternut squash, Cook, Food Network, Mozzarella, Parmigiano-Reggiano, Ricotta

I could have been ‘Chopped’ champion!

September 1, 2009 By PJ Mullen 18 Comments

One of our guilty pleasures is to watch cooking reality shows like Top Chef, Iron Chef and one of the newer offerings from the Food Network – Chopped. For those who have never watched the show, it pits four chefs against each other in three rounds of competition where they have to incorporate a number [...]

Filed Under: Dad in the Kitchen Tagged With: Chopped, Cooking, Food Network

When are pancakes not pancakes?

August 3, 2009 By PJ Mullen 7 Comments

When it is a Dutch Baby, of course! But what exactly is a Dutch Baby? It is a sweet breakfast dish sometimes called a German pancake that resembles a yorkshire pudding or a popover and is derived from the German apfelpfannkuchen – now say that three times fast. A Dutch Baby is formed from a thin [...]

Filed Under: Dad in the Kitchen Tagged With: Cast iron, Cook, Dutch Baby, Food Network, Home, Maple syrup, Vanilla extract

RMDM Kitchen: Our Valentine’s Day Tradition

February 14, 2009 By PJ Mullen Leave a Comment

It was no small coincidence that I inherited the task of cooking in our household, since I set myself up with a critical strategic error – I set the bar too high for myself. On our fifth date I made dinner for my wife at my condo and after only serving the appetizer she told [...]