How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Everything's better with bacon. Everything. But there's a better bacon than bacon ... Wait! Come back, I'm not crazy! Okay, now what I was trying to say before you started laughing and walking away, is that there's a better bacon than bacon ... for making bacon bits. … [Read more...]
If you have a bottle of store-bought creamy Italian dressing in your fridge or pantry, go take a look at the ingredients. In fact, just grab the bottle and bring it back to the computer. Go ahead, I'll wait. Now, here's how to tell if you've got a good brand. What's the first ingredient? Is it hydrogenated vegetable oil? (Corn and soy are both vegetables, so they both count.) Minus 50 points. Or maybe it's corn syrup? Also minus 50. Is either one of these ingredients in the top three? Minus … [Read more...]
I love onion dip made with sour cream and onion soup mix. Love it. Loooooooooove it. But the ingredients scare me. Have you ever read that package? So I decided to make my own. Of course I looked online for ideas first. Almost everything I saw included beef bouillon cubes. Oh yeah, that's so much better. What you see here is a first try. It's pretty good as a dip, but really fabulous for ... well, I'll tell you down at the bottom. … [Read more...]
The last time I made macaroni salad my wife and her father commented on how dry it was. I don't like it runny, like it usually is when you buy pre-made macaroni salad at the grocery store. I might have over-reacted a little and gone a bit drier than I needed to. (Not that I'm the kind of person to over-react. Oh no, not at all.) So this time I made it a bit more like they're used to. About twice the mayo as last time, though still not as runny as the pre-made stuff. I've got to admit, this … [Read more...]
After I made the tempura onion rings a bunch of people asked about doing a beer batter. I finally got around to it, and the result is what you see here. Tasty? Absolutely. Better than the tempura? Hard to say without a back-to-back comparison. But I will say this one is more work. If you've done beer-battered onion rings before, I'd be happy to hear any tips you've got to offer. … [Read more...]
