How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
If I'm going to take the time to cook from scratch, I'd like to use the best ingredients I can get. Which means sometimes I do a bunch of research, and a lot of what I find never makes it into something I post. I realized as I was looking through some of my links that I've got a bunch of stuff here that people might like to see. … [Read more...]
Why is it a whole beef roast might cost as little as $4 per pound but the same thing, sliced thin and called "cold cuts", is suddenly at least $6 per pound? Is slicing it that hard? Not really. Of course you have to roast it first. Which means you get a nice Sunday dinner out of it, and use the leftovers for sandwiches. Like you're supposed to. (Oh, and did I mention you get gravy this way? Can't forget the gravy.) … [Read more...]
Recently my wife and I made dinner for a family where one of the children is allergic to eggs. They had a list of substitutions that really surprised me. We used one of those tips to make brownies without eggs. This post won't have a recipe. It's reference for future posts where I'll show some of these tips in action. I don't have any food allergies, but I'd like to see how various substitutions work in different recipes. … [Read more...]
We had wings this weekend. The barbecue came out just fine, but the chipotle wasn't what I was going for. I've had a cajun dry rub from a local place, and a chipoltle dry rub at Quaker Steak and Lube. They're both yummy. I'm trying to come up with something similar but I'm obviously missing something important. I'll describe here what I did, and if you know what I should have done different please leave a comment letting me know. … [Read more...]
Remember Dinneen? We met her a couple of days ago when she shared the story of how she went to France and saw how they ate ... and how much healthier they were. Today I returned the favor and wrote up a recipe on Dinneen's site. If you're coming over from Dinneen's to find the recipe for whipped cream I mentioned, here it is. … [Read more...]
