How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
It might surprise you to learn that the salsa most North Americans are familiar with is nothing like what most Latin Americans eat. (If that actually surprises you, you probably think General Tso’s Chicken is an authentic Chinese recipe.)
Once you get past the idea that salsa has to be in any way “authentic” you’re free to try some really interesting variations on the theme. This one was inspired by a request from DaisyDee after I made the pineapple fried in coconut oil.
[Read more...]Sure, you can open a can of crushed pineapple. Better, you can chop up a fresh one. But to really go over the top, fry it in coconut oil.
[Read more...]People usually only think about pumpkin in the fall, but it’s available in cans year-round and makes for an interesting change of pace. This jelly roll-style recipe with cream cheese filling goes great for brunch.
[Read more...]Ask your parents (or grandparents) about the ice-cream shops they went to when they were teenagers. The toppings didn’t all come out of pump cans, they were made right there from the same ingredients you would use: cocoa powder, sugar, milk, vanilla. This recipe will bring them back to their youth, and make you nostalgic for a time you never knew.
[Read more...]I’m getting tired of spending 10 minutes reading labels every time I need barbecue sauce trying to find one that isn’t mostly corn syrup. Seriously, check the labels and you’ll see about a third of them list corn syrup as the first ingredient, and most of the rest have it as the second.
Then there are the ones that list “corn syrup” and “high fructose corn syrup” separately, so that they can push them down to the third and fourth ingredients and you won’t think you’re buying a bottle of pancake syrup.
Well, I needed some this weekend, so I went looking for a recipe to try out. I came across this one from My Whole Food Life and it looked good. One minor tweak and it’s just about perfect.
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