How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Everywhere on Earth, there's a dish that people use to hide their leftovers. Sure, you can make it from scratch, but the beauty of these recipes is that you can throw in whatever you've got on hand and it's just as good. Today I've got one that for some reason I don't do nearly often enough: Shepherd's Pie. Meat, potatoes, and whatever vegetables you've got handy and you're ready to go. … [Read more...]
This is a guest post from The Frugal Hostess. After you read it, click the link at the end to go to her blog and subscribe to it. The Frugal Hostess was never a big fan of doing math. The memorization and detail really got her down. The boringness, the lack of drama, and the repetition kept her down. Down with math, man. So it's interesting how often TFH finds herself doing equations in her everyday life. Is she the only person for whom this is true? Why is she forever in search of … [Read more...]
This recipe can easily be done in a pie plate, which is what most recipes call for. But the cast iron skillet evens out the temperature, so all the rolls are evenly cooked without any hot spots. If your pan is seasoned at all well, the rolls will also release easier than from any pie plate I've ever seen. That includes "non-stick" pie plates. And did I mention, they're absolutely delicious? Yeah, I probably should have started with that: They're delicious. The kids made us promise not to eat … [Read more...]
When Little, Brown and Company sent me a copy of Michael Psilakis' book How to Roast a Lamb: New Greek Classic Cooking, the first thing I noticed was that it's way bigger than I've come to expect from celebrity chefs. Though you may not have heard of him, in the restaurant world Psilakis is definitely a celebrity on the way up, with three Manhattan restaurants getting rave reviews. It became clear right away how this book was different. Psilakis is proud of his Greek heritage, and fills the … [Read more...]
I don't know what ThinkGeek was thinking when they did this one. No, not that they made it. That they're not selling it. I realize it was done as an April Fool's prank, but I want one. And I'm sure there's more of you out there like me. … [Read more...]
