Why on earth would you make your own butter? The stuff at the grocery store is already made from nothing but cream, isn’t it? Okay, and salt if you buy salted butter. But that’s pretty good isn’t it? Because this butter is better. You read that right: better than ordinary butter. Hard to believe, but [...]
Lots of summer grilling isn’t about recipes. It’s about good food, cooked simply and well. One of the great things about doing it this way it you can do a variety of dishes all at the same time. This night it was chicken thighs for the kids and kielbasi for the adults.
Three weeks ago I stuffed a couple of dozen chive blossoms in a bottle and filled it with white vinegar. I expected the color to be really nice, and the flavor to be pretty much like plain vinegar. I was half right. The color is nice. But the flavor is even more intense than the [...]
There’s nothing like fresh lemonade, made with fresh-squeezed lemons and simple syrup. But you can’t keep lemons in the fridge for weeks at a time. That doesn’t mean you should go with powdered instant lemonade or some nasty pre-made stuff loaded with corn syrup. If your grocery store has a foreign/imported foods section, look for [...]
I always thought of this more as a cold-weather kind of dish. But someone suggested it to go along with kielbasi, and it sounded like a great idea. It’s actually easier to make than “regular” potato salad, and is also pretty good cold.
