How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Pico de gallo is not salsa. It looks like mostly the same ingredients, and it is. But the proportions are completely different. This is not a sauce -- salsa is just the Spanish word for sauce, after all -- it's more like a salad. A fresh, zesty, simple salad that is great on its own, and makes lots of other dishes even better. … [Read more...]
You can squeeze a lime really hard and leave half the juice still in it.The solution is as close as your silverware drawer. … [Read more...]
The first time you make a recipe with jalapeños, there's something that the recipe probably won't say: don't use the ones in a jar that you find on a shelf next to the pickles. Those are great on nachos, but you don't want to cook with them. Which means you'll need to know how to cut fresh jalapeños. So here it is. … [Read more...]
Some things are really hard to describe. That's what pictures are good for. But sometimes even pictures don't cut it. (Heh, "cut it" ... I kill me.) That's why I've got a couple of videos today. The right way -- and the wrong way -- to dice tomatoes. … [Read more...]
Aren't those teenie little peppers just the cutest things? No, actually, they're not. If this were May, than they'd be cute. But in October, in Cleveland? Not so much. I'm just about ready to pull them all up and be done with it. … [Read more...]
