I’ve tried lots of different marinades for my ribs, thinking I would get some great flavor into the meat before even cooking it. But with ribs it’s all about the sauce. So now I go with a simple preparation to get the tenderest meat, and then finish with a good sauce either under the broiler [...]
Last week my wife was making hamburgers for dinner, and grilled some onions for them. She added a little sugar, something she learned from her father. As I was eating, I thought, “This would be really good on ribs.” I went looking and found a bunch of recipes for onion-based barbecue sauces, but all of [...]
I’ve never liked the pre-made macaroni salad you get at the grocery store, with over-cooked noodles swimming in in runny, watery dressing. This version comes out nearly dry, the pasta soaking up most of the dressing, and with a bit of crunch from the veggies. You can easily substitute cooked, cubed potatoes for the macaroni [...]
I’m pretty sure my grandmother never ate nachos, much less made them. And I’d be willing to bet she never saw a whole mango. But this recipe hits all the important points: it’s all from scratch, with fresh ingredients, and it tastes at least as good as it looks. As I said in the mango [...]
Unless you live in the southwestern U.S. — or even farther south, but for an English-language blog “southwestern U.S.” is a pretty safe bet — then it’s unlikely your grandmother ever made mango salsa. For one thing, salsa didn’t really take off in the U.S. until the 1970s. For another, annual mango consumption in the [...]
