I mentioned yesterday a selection of Holland House vinegars and cooking wines I got from Mizkan. One of them is a white cooking wine with lemon flavor, which reminded me of the chicken saltimbocca at Buca di Beppo. This is a simplified version, made with what I had on hand. Wait … not true. I [...]
Once upon a time I thought “vinaigrette” meant oil and vinegar. Close, but not exactly. And back when I thought that, I thought “oil and vinegar” meant Wesson vegetable oil and distilled white vinegar. Needless to say, I couldn’t understand why anyone would want to use that on their salad. Then I discovered olive oil. [...]
There have been years that I loaded up on sides so much that there was no room on my plate for the Thanksgiving turkey. You can give me corn, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce and call it a meal. But variety is good, too. I’ve had green bean casserole, rice, mac and cheese [...]
[Today is a guest post from Andrew Hall at the Apple a Day blog.] While it’s important to salt foods in order to bring out their true flavor, salt is not the only way to add a little oomph to your cooking. Bring some ethnic flavor to everyday meals with these commonly-used spices. Simple to [...]
I’m not a fan of ingredient substitutes. For most of my life, substitutions were a way of replacing a real food that people were being taught to fear with a man-made product that turns out — after a few decades of people eating it — to be worse than the original. There’s margarine instead of [...]
