How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Just a quick note about how I did one of the ingredients for my twice baked potatoes. I've done bacon bits before, but that was with prosciutto. I expected the bacon would have a lot more fat, but it turns out he bacon ends I used have no more fat than the prosciutto did. Bacon ends are a double win: leaner than regular bacon and cheaper, too. … [Read more...]
The great thing about having holiday traditions is that people expect to have the same thing they ate last year. So no experiments, no stress ... and no taking pictures of the whole process for me. Everything I made for Christmas was something I did on the blog during the year. And please check out the request at the end. … [Read more...]
If I'm going to fall for some great marketing -- and know that I'm falling for it the whole time -- I sure better make something that's worth losing my self-respect. So this time I didn't take a shortcut and put the slow cooker on "Hi" for three hours. This one gets the full 7-plus hours it needs to be fork tender. And oh my goodness ... this is what pot roast is supposed to taste like. … [Read more...]
