Chicken Divan has been around since the early 20th Century, when it was invented at the Divan Parisien Restaurant in the New York Chatham Hotel. So classic American dish is what I'm saying. It's been done with cream of mushroom soup, cream of chicken ... celery ... broccoli ... pretty much if Campbell's makes it, someone has put it in this dish. My wife said she ate it nearly ever week her senior year of high school as her mother kept tweaking the recipe, trying to come up with the "perfect … [Read more...]
How To Live Like Great-great-grandma, Part 3
September 30, 2009 (Updated March 24, 2014) by
We've already learned my girls aren't interested in milking cows. (And by the way, neither are most of you.) And that Hale Farm and Village clearly represents a very wealthy historic town, since they have an organ and a "school bus". So how about the domestic work? Would any of us want to cook the way our great-great-grandmothers did? … [Read more...]
How To Make Creamy Asparagus Soup
September 29, 2009 (Updated March 24, 2014) by
Now that fall is back, it's time to start doing soup again. This one is thick and creamy, great by itself, or as an ingredient in casseroles -- anywhere you'd normally do a can of cream of celery soup. Because canned soup is usually nasty. Oh sure, it tastes good, but have you ever read the ingredients? Ick. This one only has five ingredients, not counting the salt and pepper. Oh wait, and not counting the butter for sautéing the veggies. Okay, so it's got eight ingredients, but if you don't … [Read more...]
How To Live Like Great-great-grandma, Part 2
September 27, 2009 (Updated February 9, 2015) by
In the first set of shots from Hale Farm and Village, the girls learned that they liked going to school just fine, compared to all the work they'd have to do on the farm. Now, they get to see a bit about community life. … [Read more...]
How To Make Bacon Mayonnaise
September 25, 2009 (Updated August 7, 2014) by
I've speculated about this before. I thought it should work, and someday I was going to just get down to it and try. But someone beat me to it. I'm still going to, but in the meantime, here's how Ari Weinzweig does it. … [Read more...]