How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
My father-in-law, Lou, finally got a stand mixer for Christmas, and doesn't have to borrow mine when he wants to make something any more. So the first thing he decided to do is start making bread. I brought him over the recipe for crusty Italian bread and he went to town. But of course he can't just do plain Italian bread like I did. He has to do garlic breadsticks. Which I'm totally cool with, because I was staying for dinner. … [Read more...]
The Waldorf salad I grew up on was peeled red delicious apples, raisins and mayonnaise. Or maybe Miracle Whip, I don't remember. (UPDATE: I just got an email from my mother confirming that she does not like Miracle Whip, so it would have been mayo that I grew up with.) Of course I had no idea it had a name. It was always just, "That apple and raisin salad." According to KitchenProject.com: Created at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1896 not by a chef but by the maître d'hôtel, (dining … [Read more...]
There are tart apples, and sweet apples, and dry apples, and dozens of flavors to choose from. But when you buy pre-made applesauce, odds are the ingredients just list "apples". And of course high fructose corn syrup ... because simply using sweeter apples is apparently too hard. So if you're trying to avoid HFCS -- and you probably should -- or if you just don't like the flavors of applesauce available in the grocery store, you could always make your own. It's really easy, and you get to … [Read more...]
This is a great example of why it's good to see pictures with recipes. What you see here was incredibly simple and really tasty but, it turns out, not quite how potatoes Anna traditionally comes out. I'll try the traditional version next time I'm looking to impress guests, but I think for myself I'll stick with this ... deconstructed version. (Makes it sound intentional when I say it that way, doesn't it? … [Read more...]
The idea for this pie came from some comments on my post about how to make a graham cracker crust. I knew I wanted to do a Snickerdoodle crust, but couldn't decide what to put in it. Eventually it came down to either chocolate, or banana creme. Then I remembered I'm the kind of person who hates choosing which one I like best, so I just did both of them at the same time. … [Read more...]
