How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
I'd like to apologize in advance to any Southerners reading this. Yes, your Grandmother's biscuits and gravy were better than anything I'll ever make. I don't deserve to even call this biscuits and gravy. I'm a damn Yankee, and I should stick to beef stroganoff and croutons. Good, that's out of the way? Now, if you don't already have your own tried-and-true sausage gravy recipe, this one should do just fine for a start. … [Read more...]
I mentioned yesterday this was going to be my first cross-blog post. Anne made me an offer and I took her up on it. She would make the fish chowder, I would make the biscuits. Anne has posted the fish chowder, and it looks amazing. I think I could even do it without screwing it up. I plan to find out soon. I have to apologize to Anne for making a last-minute substitution. I ran out of buttermilk, so I did sourdough biscuits instead. The flavor should actually be really similar. The texture … [Read more...]
This recipe is completely unnecessary. Most people are satisfied with a bowl of chips, a bowl of cheese, and a bowl of chili. Presto, you've got nachos. Just what you need for a crowd. But when you're doing nachos for two, you can do a little better than that. … [Read more...]
One more fake food comes off my list of guilty pleasures. I'm a sucker for nachos with cheese sauce. I've had the "cheese" sauce in jars and in cans. Have you ever read the ingredients in those things? Some of them don't list a single dairy ingredient. That's so nasty. But they taste so gooood. I finally went looking for recipes to make nacho cheese sauce from real food. And maybe some actual cheese. (I know ... crazy, huh?) So did it work? Well, like I said, one more fake food I won't be … [Read more...]
I've read a lot of really old cookbooks. And when I say "old" I mean back to medieval English. But I have never seen anything quite like this little gem. I haven't read the whole thing yet, so I'm holding out hope there's something even more amazing. But I had to share the first few things I found. … [Read more...]
