The traditional showpiece of the American holiday meal is either a roast turkey or a giant ham. If you really want to impress someone, go instead for a standing rib roast. The recipe is about as simple as can be and the preparation is even easier. The key is a simple preparation of the best [...]
Tell people that you’ve got an herb garden and you’ll get some funny looks. Most of them think herbs are those dried flakes you get in little plastic bottles in the grocery store. They seem to add more color than flavor half the time. Why on earth would you go to all the trouble to [...]
I was never good at chemistry. I was fine at the book work but I was absolutely hopeless in the lab. That’s why I leave the baking to my wife. She’s great at fine-tuning a recipe and getting it just right time after time. I’m more of a seat-of-the-pants kind of cook. Taste it along [...]
The day after Thanksgiving my father-in-law and I took the carcass and turned it into turkey stock. I ended up with about eight cups of awesome light-brown gelatin, which I froze in one-cup batches in zip-top sandwich bags. Two days later I made soup with the turkey that was left, a mirepoix with garlic, some [...]
It’s easy to get discouraged when you first start learning to cook for yourself. Nothing tastes as good as what Mom used to make. Heck, you can’t even top the stuff that comes out of a box or a can or the frozen-food aisle. If this describes you, there’s one thing I’ll bet no one [...]
