Food

Scoop owner Jennifer Davis is known for her inventive ice cream and gelato flavors – cheese plate, anyone? – at her dessert locations on the South Hill and in Kendall Yards, but Davis shifted gears at the end of 2021 and quietly opened Hidden Bagel on the South Hill.

My husband and I have a standing Saturday night date. Dinner out? I wish. No, after the kid has gone to bed, when the hectic chore-filled weeknights have taken a brief pause, we sit down and talk about dinner – specifically what we will be making the following week. Sure, sometimes it happens at other times.

You grabbed a couple of potatoes in your weekly grocery run and popped them in a cabinet or on a counter. A few days later – or, uh, longer – you go to pull them out, and there they are: green or sprouted spuds. The instinct to toss them is understandable, but it's often unnecessary.

Chicken Butchery With Chef Peter Froese from Gander & Ryegrass – Learn how to break down a whole chicken, followed by cooking chicken breast with fresh pasta for alfredo. Thursday, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wanderlust Delicato, 421 W. Main Ave. $85. (509) 822-7087.

Whether you’re looking for a sweet cocktail or a treat to go along with it, Hogwash Whiskey Den, 304 W. Pacific Ave., offers a wide array of ways to enjoy honey. The cornbread with honey-browned butter is always a “customer favorite,” chef C.J. Callahan said.

Snoop Dogg, already famous for sipping on “gin and juice” and smoking cannabis, is getting into the junk food game. The hip-hop superstar is apparently planning to launch his own line of hot dogs aptly called “Snoop Doggs.” According to Billboard, Snoop’s attorneys have applied for a federal trademark registration.

Jan. 22 is National Blondie Day! If you’ve never had a blondie, let me try and describe it: It’s as if a super-caramelly chocolate chip cookie was made in the style of a brownie and then cut into bars. Blondies have a thin, crispy top and chewy, buttery interior. They can contain chocolate chips and/or nuts.

My 79-year-old dad, Cy, said to me many years ago, “Don, eat to live, don’t live to eat.” I know that he didn’t come up with the quote, and I thought it was funny at the time. But as I continue to work in journalism as a features editor, and in that realm cover food, the quote has flipped for me.

The chicken soup I grew up eating, the Jewish penicillin my grandmother and generations before her made, is such a part of who I am, I cook it from deeply ingrained memory, and I make it often. But recently, while I was starting to whip up a batch, I had the urge to spike it with ginger.

This Ain't Your Grandma's Wine Wednesday Dinner Series – Learn to make classic comfort meals with elevated flavors. Each meal is paired with three wines, sides and dessert. WednesdayJan 12: Meatloaf. Jan. 19: Chicken and dumplings. Jan 26: Pot roast. Feb. 2: Chili. Feb. 9: Tuna noodle casserole.

The best traditional mac and cheese recipes rely on more than just the cheese. They use a bechamel to create a cheese sauce that enrobes the pasta and keeps the dish wonderfully creamy. It follows, then, that the best vegan mac and cheese recipes rely on more than vegan cheese, too.

This recipe checks all the boxes for the kind of food I want to usher me into the new year. It's healthful and comforting (yes, it's possible to have both!), and it's convenient – easy to pull together, make ahead and reheat. It's a better-for-you spin on a familiar favorite, baked ziti.

While we are experiencing some of the shortest sunlight days of the year, we’re bound to feel a bit down at times as our bodies are missing vitamin D and time outdoors. I take a supplement and make sure to start it in early fall, but I still experience low energy and drive at times from seasonal affective disorder.

To mark the 20th anniversary reunion of the original Harry Potter cast on HBO on New Year’s Day, food sensitivity specialist YorkTest has created seven spellbinding recipes people can follow to create their own Hogwarts-inspired treats, among them butterbeer, chocolate frog cupcakes and treacle tarts.

Deboning chicken flattens it to provide more even contact between the chicken and skillet, which means more even cooking and browning. But the procedure can require watching a YouTube tutorial first. I opt for bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs to avoid the nervous dance of getting both the white and dark meat done.

This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Wine Wednesday Dinner Series – Learn to make classic comfort meals with elevated flavors. Each meal is paired with three wines, sides and dessert. Jan. 12: Meatloaf. Jan. 19: Chicken and dumplings. Jan. 26: Pot roast. Feb. 2: Chili. Feb. 9: Tuna noodle casserole.

There are many ways to use miso in everyday cooking. Baker and blogger Aran Goyoaga adds miso to cake batter in her newest cookbook, "Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple." In "Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter," cookbook author Nigel Slater uses miso as a crunchy coating for sauteed Brussels sprouts. 

Let’s start the new year off right with this “cure-all” tea! The cold weather is here loud and clear. As I was brainstorming about a nice, warming recipe to help heat us up when we come in from the cold, I stumbled upon this oldie but goodie. I adapted this recipe a while back. 

Out with the old and in with the new – has there ever been an entire year that this could be said of more than 2021? Good riddance! To start the new year, well, anew, here are new year's resolutions from some of Spokane's notables in the food, health, music and arts and entertainment worlds. Happy New Year!