How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
I thought it was going to be hard to keep up with the tomatoes from Lou's garden. Somehow I managed to not think about what was going to come from those mutant zucchini plants. But they started producing anyway. So of course I asked the baker of the house to make some zucchini bread. … [Read more...]
Look! Out on the buffet table ... it's bruschetta ... it's French bread pizza ... it's ... bruschetta pizza! Okay, I couldn't decide which one to call it, so it's both. … [Read more...]
I'm a big fan of comfort food: meat loaf and mashed potatoes, chicken soup, chocolate-chip cookies. And of course, mac and cheese. Like most of you, I grew up on the neon orange stuff that comes in the blue box. And in my house that was made with margarine, because we had all been told it was better for us. We hadn't heard of trans fat. Oh well. So every now and then, when I just have to relive a bit of my childhood, I might whip up a bowl of the orange stuff. But if want something good, … [Read more...]
My father-in-law roasts his own garlic all the time. He recently heard of a new technique that was supposed to make it easy to do more at one time, with less mess. I went over to watch him do it. He told me how it would go, and it sounded pretty good. … [Read more...]
Kelley's Island used to have a winery. Now it's Kelley's Island Wine Co. -- and Family Fun Place, apparently. That's because the only grape vines left on the island are the ones on the fence in the parking lot. … [Read more...]
