How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Do you like being called stupid? I don't. So an ad campaign that depends on convincing me that eating healthy is too "confusing" and that I need it simplified is ... well, "not very effective" is probably a too-polite way to say it. … [Read more...]
Let's get this out of the way: Don't try to make salt water taffy. It's very tedious. If you do it by hand your arms will be dead when you're done. Seriously, if you like salt water taffy go somewhere and buy it. If you want to see it made, take a tour. This was a total pain in the ... arms, actually. We won't be trying this again. But if you still want to -- and how could anyone resist after that buildup? -- or if you just want to point and laugh, here's how we did it. … [Read more...]
Today is another guest post from The Frugal Hostess [TFH]. After you read it, click the link at the end to go to her blog and subscribe to it. A wretched week and a hacking cough recently set TFH off on a bender of booze-making. Here are some of the things she made. … [Read more...]
Today is the second recipe out of the Ohio State Grange Cook Book, Eleventh Edition, 1949. It's the yellow cake to go with the chocolate frosting. It's not a lemon cake, it's yellow. The flavor is actually vanilla and almond, and very subtle. It's very nearly a blank canvas to support the frosting, so mild I can't imagine any frosting that it would clash with. If you're a cake fan who usually scrapes off the frosting, you probably want something with more flavor. If you just need … [Read more...]
Now that we're approaching strawberry season, I thought it would be helpful to completely gross you out. Oops, sorry, that's me who was completely grossed out. So now I'm showing it to you. I can't help it, I'm a sharing person. … [Read more...]
