How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
So I come downstairs for lunch, and there's this container of berries on the counter. I know we didn't have them yesterday, and no one has been to the store. So I ask where they came from. "They were on the tree down by the beach." Uhhh ... Excuse me? … [Read more...]
This is a great "base" recipe for experimenting on top of. It's ridiculously easy to make the simple version, and mild enough to be a blank canvas for personalization. And with only four ingredients, there's a good chance you've already got what you need to make them. … [Read more...]
Truly great ideas all provoke the same reaction: "Oh my God, that's perfect. Why didn't I think of that?" This is one of those ideas. … [Read more...]
During the fall and winter, I eat pork chops, baked potatoes and salad. But in the summer, that just feels to "heavy" for a hot night. So instead I grill the pork chops, slice them thin and put them on top of the salad, which is bigger, and put the potato on the side. And somehow this tells my brain, "You're actually eating a salad. Nice and light for a hot summer night.It just happens to have an entire pork chop sitting on top of it." It doesn't have to make sense. It just works. … [Read more...]
By now I should know better than to criticize my grill behind its back. Yesterday Barb said that she was getting a new grill for her birthday to replace her "falling apart grill". I told her that mine was also not doing well, specifically mentioning that the splatter shield looked more like a screen. Well, that's just tempting fate, don't you think? Instead of heating up and vaporising grease as it dripped, like it's supposed to do, it just flared up and got all smoky. I wasn't trying for … [Read more...]
