How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Good food and good music are luxuries in every culture. Have been throughout recorded history. So it makes sense that Vermont-based Lake Champlain Chocolates decided to work with Vermont band Grace Potter & the Nocturnals to produce a limited edition chocolate bar. They wanted something hot, so this is a dark chocolate bar with pistachios and red pepper. Yes, red pepper. … [Read more...]
Today's blueberry peach crisp is another one from the Ohio State Grange Cook Book, Eleventh Edition, 1949. It started out as an apple crisp, but we didn't have a box of apples getting over-ripe on the counter -- we had peaches. And blueberries in the freezer. This is definitely one of our more successful experiments. … [Read more...]
I'm no fan of the current farm subsidies. We end up with huge monocultures of corn and soybeans, which then have to be stuffed into everything we eat. (Why is there high fructose corn syrup in kielbasi? Check the ingredients, you'll be amazed.) Just as bad, the subsidies only really help the big businesses with all the lobbyists: ADM, Cargill, Monsanto. I'm sure plenty of farmers would be willing to disagree, saying the subsidies keep them in business. But wouldn't the money be just as green … [Read more...]
When my wife bought the Pampered Chef Mix 'N' Chop, I didn't want to like it. It was an extra gadget that we didn't need. Then I used it. Now it's one of my favorite kitchen tools. Just to keep things even, when we made peach cobbler my wife didn't want to use the technique I'm about to show you for peeling the peaches. It was just as easy to do them by hand. Then she tried it. … [Read more...]
Reviewing children's movies is hard. As an adult, you've seen all the storylines before. Before the movie is half over -- if it even takes that long -- you know everything that's going to happen. But the kids don't. They haven't seen it all before. They don't know that the hero always wins. They didn't know Simba was going to return and become the Lion King. They didn't know Han Solo was going to show up again in the last act. (What, you didn't know Star Wars was a kids' movie?) Sometimes … [Read more...]
