How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Crêpes can be eaten on their own, but nobody does that. They always have some kind of topping on them, or filling in them. What lots of people don't know is that they work just as well with savory fillings as with sweet and fruity ones. … [Read more...]
I'm a fan of slow cookers, but lots of people have trouble with them. There's a good reason, which most people don't know: Slow cookers today aren't nearly as slow as they used to be. Rather than risk lawsuits from people undercooking their chicken, the manufacturers have been raising the temperatures of their cookers for years. The Low setting on many new cookers will cook faster than the High setting on some older ones. So if you've got a recipe your grandmother wrote based on her slow … [Read more...]
Crêpes are one of the simplest pastries you can make quickly for breakfast. Four ingredients (plus water) that you can put together in any order and be ready to cook in about 2 minutes. And half that is melting the butter. You'd think they'd show up on the menu more often, except that the technique can be a little tricky. No, that's not right. It's not the technique so much as the hardware. You need a really good pan to cook them in: heavy bottom (cast iron is best), non-stick (well-seasoned … [Read more...]
Nina Planck is the author of one of the most popular books in the "real food" movement: Real Food: What to Eat and Why. When she got pregnant she decided to look into what the pediatric and medical community had to say about eating for pregnancy, and how to feed a newborn. If you've read any of her stuff before, you won't be surprised to find out she wasn't impressed by what she found. She dove back into research mode, and shares what she found in Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility … [Read more...]
Last week I saw two great articles from writers not known for writing about food: Seth Godin and Mark Morford. If you're in the marketing business, you already know Seth. He's got a string of bestsellers, but doesn't consider himself primarily a writer. He publishes books just because he knows some people are more willing to listen to his ideas if they're wrapped in a hard cover. And then he camps out on the top of the New York Times bestseller lists. (What, me jealous? Nah.) … [Read more...]
