How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Part of cooking from scratch is knowing just how "from scratch" it needs to be to feel good about what you're making. The other part is knowing where to buy the parts you're not going to make for yourself. This time it was getting a pizza crust from Alesci's and doing the sauce from scratch. … [Read more...]
This is the kind of dish you might be embarrassed to serve to company. You could probably fancy it up by using some kind of artisan bread, and going with seared ahi or tuna steaks or something with better foodie cred than canned tuna. But when you're not worried about impressing anyone, this is comfort food that will take you straight back to your childhood. And in honor of childhood, this recpie is being submitted for the Food for Plastic Challenge III. Tupperware will be donating some of … [Read more...]
I've always liked my potato salad much drier than what you usually get from a store. The dressing is mostly mayonnaise with just enough vinegar to add some "bite" to it. And hard boiled egg ... lots of hard boiled egg. So today's recipe is a little bit of a departure, since the dressing is a bit thinner than I usually do. Of course, that's because I made the mayo from scratch. Using rendered bacon fat instead of vegetable oil. Have I ever mentioned how Everything Is Better With Bacon? … [Read more...]
Have you ever seen hard boiled eggs diced into those perfect little cubes and wondered how they did that? It's really easy to do as long as you have a wire egg slicer. I'm generally not a fan of single-purpose gadgets in the kitchen, but this one makes the cut. … [Read more...]
There's lots of slow ways to seed and chop a pepper, and a couple simple ways. I like this one. … [Read more...]
