How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
[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 incorporate and readily available at any grocery stores, these spices are the perfect starters for your foray into ethnically-inspired cuisine. … [Read more...]
A wise man* once said, "Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made." Think about that before reading The Complete Book of Butchering ... and decide if you really want to know where your meat comes from. If you don't understand why, think about the subtitle: How to Harvest Your Livestock & Wild Game. This is not a book you read for fun, just because you're interested in food. This is a working manual for people who have live animals, and who need to turn them into dead … [Read more...]
Roasted pumpkin seeds are definitely a seasonal treat. I don't think I've ever seen them in a store -- though I haven't looked for them -- and no one goes out and buys a pumpkin just to make the seeds. I'm pretty sure the first roasted pumpkin seeds were made by a cheapskate like me who, after carving the jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween, looked at all the stuff scraped out of the inside and said to himself, "Man, it seems like such a waste to throw all of that out. I wonder what I can make … [Read more...]
In last week's newsletter, I ran a link to a story about a meatcake: meatloaf cake with mashed potato frosting. Barbara was inspired. I only got before shots though, it was eaten too quickly to get shots of the meatloaf-y inside. … [Read more...]
Every parent knows that kids prefer to eat "fun" food than plain old normal food. Halloween gives us a great opportunity to cater to this impulse, making food that's as much fun to look at as it is to eat. Sometimes that goes so far that grown-ups won't eat it. Like chocolate pudding served in a cloth diaper. (Yeah, seen it at a party. Hilarious.) Octodogs are well to the "tame" side, but still plenty of fun. … [Read more...]
