How To Make Egg Salad

July 23, 2008 (Updated February 4, 2018) by
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This has to be a joke, right? I mean egg salad for Pete's sake! First of all, who actually eats egg salad past about eight years old? And second, who needs a step-by-step recipe guide to make it? As to the first question, I eat egg salad. It's like deviled eggs, on bread. And I like me some deviled eggs. So who needs directions for it? Anyone who's never made it. No matter how easy something is, until you've seen it for the first time you don't know that it's easy. More important is … [Read more...]

Purple Bean Salad

July 22, 2008 (Updated March 24, 2014) by
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I'd never had purple beans before. I saw them at the farmers market where a friend of mine was buying some. I asked and she told me that they taste just like green beans, and in fact turn the same color green when you cook them. Well what would be the point of that? So I knew I needed to get some, and I knew I couldn't cook them. I decided this would be a perfect time to use some of the chive blossom vinegar. The result not only tastes great, it looks incredibly cool. Oh, and I … [Read more...]

How To Make Bacon Bits

July 15, 2008 (Updated August 7, 2014) by
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Everything's better with bacon. Everything. But there's a better bacon than bacon ... Wait! Come back, I'm not crazy! Okay, now what I was trying to say before you started laughing and walking away, is that there's a better bacon than bacon ... for making bacon bits. … [Read more...]

How To Make Creamy Italian Dressing

July 14, 2008 (Updated March 23, 2014) by
Dairy, Dressing / Sauce

If you have a bottle of store-bought creamy Italian dressing in your fridge or pantry, go take a look at the ingredients. In fact, just grab the bottle and bring it back to the computer. Go ahead, I'll wait. Now, here's how to tell if you've got a good brand. What's the first ingredient? Is it hydrogenated vegetable oil? (Corn and soy are both vegetables, so they both count.) Minus 50 points. Or maybe it's corn syrup? Also minus 50. Is either one of these ingredients in the top three? Minus … [Read more...]

How (Not) To Make Onion Dip

July 11, 2008 (Updated March 24, 2014) by
Dairy, Dressing / Sauce

I love onion dip made with sour cream and onion soup mix. Love it. Loooooooooove it. But the ingredients scare me. Have you ever read that package? So I decided to make my own. Of course I looked online for ideas first. Almost everything I saw included beef bouillon cubes. Oh yeah, that's so much better. What you see here is a first try. It's pretty good as a dip, but really fabulous for ... well, I'll tell you down at the bottom. … [Read more...]

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