How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
If Turtle Power is good, Bacon Turtle Power must be awesome! Right? Handmade ground beef patties are topped with sharp cheddar cheese and then wrapped in a bacon weave before the Hebrew Nationals are inserted as the heads, legs and tails. Go check out the rest of the pictures and directions at Interwebs Randomness and Other Inspiring Tales. … [Read more...]
No matter how much you like blueberries, it's not likely a family of four is going to go through a gallon of them before they start to spoil. So if you've got a gallon of blueberries, you're going to want to freeze some of them. … [Read more...]
Some people are wine snobs. Excuse me ... connoisseurs. Others are chocolate snobs, or coffee snobs, or beer snobs. (I've heard some of them won't even say they like beer -- they like micro-brews.) But did you know that you can be a salt snob? I've heard stories of people who bring their own salt to restaurants. I know that fleur de sel is the salt that chefs prefer. I've heard of pink Hawaiian salt and a few others. But boy, that's just scratching the surface. … [Read more...]
Soft drinks are mostly corn syrup. Most "juice" drinks aren't much better. Even things that claim to be water are soft drinks with different marketing. (Are we not supposed to notice that the second ingredient -- "crystalline fructose" -- is sugar?) Lucky for me, back in college I dated a girl who drank Diet Coke. That's what she always had in her apartment, so whenever I was there that's what I drank. After a while "regular" colas started tasting sticky-sweet and I couldn't drink them any … [Read more...]
What would you think is in a product called Vitaminwater? You'd probably guess water, and vitamins. Right? Not so fast: "For too long, Coca-Cola has been exploiting Americans' desire to eat and drink more healthfully by deceiving them into thinking that vitaminwater can actually prevent disease," said CSPI litigation director Steve Gardner. "In fact, vitaminwater is no more than non-carbonated soda, providing unnecessary added sugar and contributing to weight gain, obesity, diabetes, … [Read more...]
