If you already have a vegetable peeler and you know how to use it, you can go ahead and click "Back" on your browser now. You won't see anything exciting here. (Seriously. Sometimes a cucumber is just a cucumber.) … [Read more...]
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How To Slice An Onion Into Shreds
May 5, 2008 (Updated March 23, 2014) by
If you're making onion rings, you really have to have rings. It's kind of in the name. For almost anything else it's better to have all the pieces be just about the same size and shape, and the way onions are built that's just not going to happen with rings. (Unless you mince them and mechanically extrude them to make perfect little uniform rings like certain fast "food" places do.) I covered how to dice an onion a while back. That's great for recipes where you'll be cooking the onion, or for … [Read more...]
How To Make Barbecue Pork Spareribs
April 30, 2008 (Updated March 23, 2014) by
I've tried lots of different marinades for my ribs, thinking I would get some great flavor into the meat before even cooking it. But with ribs it's all about the sauce. So now I go with a simple preparation to get the tenderest meat, and then finish with a good sauce either under the broiler or on the grill. For this batch I'm using the apple cider sweet onion sauce from yesterday's post. I've heard from a friend that I re-discovered North Carolina BBQ sauce. I went looking and I can't find … [Read more...]
How To Make Grandma’s Apple Cider Sweet Onion Sauce
April 29, 2008 (Updated March 24, 2014) by
Last week my wife was making hamburgers for dinner, and grilled some onions for them. She added a little sugar, something she learned from her father. As I was eating, I thought, "This would be really good on ribs." I went looking and found a bunch of recipes for onion-based barbecue sauces, but all of them had at least as much tomato paste, ketchup or chile peppers as they had onion. What you see below is the experiment that came from that. Was the experiment a success? Let's just say it's a … [Read more...]
How To Make Old-Fashioned Macaroni Salad
April 28, 2008 (Updated February 4, 2018) by
I've never liked the pre-made macaroni salad you get at the grocery store, with over-cooked noodles swimming in in runny, watery dressing. This version comes out nearly dry, the pasta soaking up most of the dressing, and with a bit of crunch from the veggies. You can easily substitute cooked, cubed potatoes for the macaroni and have a really good potato salad. … [Read more...]
