How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
I've spent more time than I care to remember laboriously peeling off leaves of Romaine one by one. Then splitting them down the spine so there weren't any big, nasty pieces in the salad. This week I suddenly realized I'd been wasting a lot of time doing it by hand. I must have had the iceberg lettuce post on my mind. … [Read more...]
I mentioned in the grilled potatoes post that stainless steel is better than non-stick for grilling. This is why. … [Read more...]
You can get pulled pork in the frozen foods section at your local grocery store. Couple minutes in the microwave and it's ready to go. How great is that? And it's going to taste just as good as ... well, it tastes nearly as ... umm, it's filling I suppose. Or if you want something that's worth eating, you can spend an entire day filling your house with a smell that would make a vegan cry. … [Read more...]
Now that it's grill season, it would be nice to have some more side dishes besides corn that you can do on the grill. Baked potatoes work, but they take forever. Okay, not quite, but they take a really long time. And they taste exactly like they would taste doing them in the stove. But with a couple of minutes of prep work, you can grill them in the time it takes to do the chicken. (Ooh, is that foreshadowing again? Actually ... no, not this time.) And they'll have so much more flavor you … [Read more...]
Summer is that magical time of year when men who don't even know how to turn on the stove suddenly become master chefs. Only thing is, the cooking has to happen outside over an open flame. It's probably some deep-seated caveman thing. "Ugghhh ... fire ... me cook ... ungh." It's probably best to start off easy with just a couple of ingredients and the simplest possible preparation. … [Read more...]
