How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Today is another guest post from The Frugal Hostess [TFH]. After you read it, click the link at the end to go to her blog and subscribe to it. A wretched week and a hacking cough recently set TFH off on a bender of booze-making. Here are some of the things she made. … [Read more...]
Today is the second recipe out of the Ohio State Grange Cook Book, Eleventh Edition, 1949. It's the yellow cake to go with the chocolate frosting. It's not a lemon cake, it's yellow. The flavor is actually vanilla and almond, and very subtle. It's very nearly a blank canvas to support the frosting, so mild I can't imagine any frosting that it would clash with. If you're a cake fan who usually scrapes off the frosting, you probably want something with more flavor. If you just need … [Read more...]
Now that we're approaching strawberry season, I thought it would be helpful to completely gross you out. Oops, sorry, that's me who was completely grossed out. So now I'm showing it to you. I can't help it, I'm a sharing person. … [Read more...]
My wife found me a new stack of old recipe books a few weeks ago. She's been going through them looking for ideas, and the first one she came up with is out of the Ohio State Grange Cook Book, Eleventh Edition, 1949. I like all the oddball recipes she's finding. But what really tickles my funny bone is every ten minutes or so when she asks, "What the hell is a quick oven? And 'Bake in two layers' ... at what temperature and for how long?!" Welcome to my world, sweetie! :-D So … [Read more...]
Documentary filmmakers have lots of options in how to approach a subject. You can turn yourself into an example of the subject and capture your own reaction, like Morgan Spurlock in Super Size Me. You can interview lots of different people and show the story in their words, like Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis in King Corn. You can ask the "bad guys" on camera to explain themselves, like Michael Moore in ... oh heck, you've heard of Michael Moore, you know what he's done. In Food, Inc., … [Read more...]
