How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
The first time you make a recipe with jalapeños, there's something that the recipe probably won't say: don't use the ones in a jar that you find on a shelf next to the pickles. Those are great on nachos, but you don't want to cook with them. Which means you'll need to know how to cut fresh jalapeños. So here it is. … [Read more...]
Some things are really hard to describe. That's what pictures are good for. But sometimes even pictures don't cut it. (Heh, "cut it" ... I kill me.) That's why I've got a couple of videos today. The right way -- and the wrong way -- to dice tomatoes. … [Read more...]
Aren't those teenie little peppers just the cutest things? No, actually, they're not. If this were May, than they'd be cute. But in October, in Cleveland? Not so much. I'm just about ready to pull them all up and be done with it. … [Read more...]
I'm not sayin' they're good, necessarily ... but they are remarkable. More old-fashioned weirdness in our second installment of From Danish Kitchens. … [Read more...]
This is the dish James Bond* would serve if he were hosting a dinner party. It's manly and rich, and takes a little skill to pull off really well. It was also incredibly popular in the 60s. I'll probably get plenty of angry comments telling me this version is a travesty, that it's using the wrong cut of beef, that it can't be done properly as quickly as I did. Right on all counts ... except that it tasted damn good. And I still say that beats tradition every time. * Sean Connery. No question. … [Read more...]
