How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Recently Grist ran a slideshow of various urban composting options. Some of the options looked a bit ridiculous. (Tabletop composting? Seriously?) But the intensely low-tech, almost-free pallet composter looks like a keeper. … [Read more...]
My first thought when I tasted this was, "This doesn't taste like Italian to me. Maybe French." Jenn agreed. But her father, Lou -- whose mother and six sisters were all born in Italy -- said, "No, that's what Italian tasted like when I was growing up." I cook tomato sauce with beef or sausage in it all the time. I don't usually do it with chicken. But this, the ingredients and the method, is exactly how Nana, Sentina, Coca, Josephine, Bertha, Nora and Perrina used to cook. … [Read more...]
I'm a Yankee. So I have no idea how traditional this version of shrimp creole may be. But it sure is tasty. NOTE: It's always a good idea to ask where your meat is coming from, but with shrimp it's even more important. With the oil spill in the gulf, we don't yet know the impact on fish that could be caught this year, or the long-term viability of the fisheries. And it's probably best to avoid imported shrimp, except from Canada. (This assumes you're in the U.S. Otherwise, check your local … [Read more...]
The Huffington Post had a great little slideshow about culinary pros' favorite tools and tricks. I'm totally with them on #4 -- the huge roll of plastic wrap; # 7 -- the microplane; and #10 -- adding pasta water to the sauce. But I've got a few more favorite things. … [Read more...]
Penne with pesto -- or Penne alla Pesto if you want to impress people -- is a great, light dish that you can throw together in almost no time when you don't want to heat the kitchen up during the summer. … [Read more...]
