How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
If you're afraid of animal-based fats, go ahead and click "Back" right now. Don't let your doctor see this recipe. In fact, I strongly recommend that you don't make this. Conventional wisdom says that it will kill you. I don't follow the conventional wisdom. So I get to eat delicious stuff like this. … [Read more...]
Sometimes you set out to do one thing but end up doing something else just as good. I don't mean setting out to find a route to India, and you end up "discovering" a whole new continent, but I guess it's the same kind of thing: a happy accident. That's what this turned out to be -- a happy accident. I meant to make Focaccia, but it came out as a sort of flatbread. A really yummy flatbread. Of course now I need to figure out what I did wrong. … [Read more...]
Go get a rotisserie. No seriously, they're great. … [Read more...]
I'd like to apologize in advance to any Southerners reading this. Yes, your Grandmother's biscuits and gravy were better than anything I'll ever make. I don't deserve to even call this biscuits and gravy. I'm a damn Yankee, and I should stick to beef stroganoff and croutons. Good, that's out of the way? Now, if you don't already have your own tried-and-true sausage gravy recipe, this one should do just fine for a start. … [Read more...]
I mentioned yesterday this was going to be my first cross-blog post. Anne made me an offer and I took her up on it. She would make the fish chowder, I would make the biscuits. Anne has posted the fish chowder, and it looks amazing. I think I could even do it without screwing it up. I plan to find out soon. I have to apologize to Anne for making a last-minute substitution. I ran out of buttermilk, so I did sourdough biscuits instead. The flavor should actually be really similar. The texture … [Read more...]
