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Buttermilk Ranch Dressing with Home-made Mayonnaise

By Drew | Published: March 27, 2008
As much as I prefer cooking from scratch, there are a few things that require so many ingredients that I’ll give in and just buy it. Worcestercire sauce is one of those. (But I’ll be fixing that soon. Stay tuned.) Ranch dressing used to be another thing that I’d just buy. Not any more. Now that [...]
Posted in Dressing / Sauce | Also tagged , , | 9 Comments

Corned Beef and Cabbage

By Drew | Published: March 17, 2008
Corned beef isn’t really a traditional Irish meal, it’s more of an Irish-American one. I don’t care about authenticity, I just care about having three days’ worth of leftover Reuben fixings in the fridge. This is a great meal for feeding a whole bunch of people without spending a bunch of time in the kitchen. You [...]
Posted in Beef, Dinner | Also tagged , | 6 Comments

How To Make Pasta

By Drew | Published: March 11, 2008
(If you think you’ve seen this before, you’re right. It’s been updated with a couple more photos.) Making fresh pasta is like renovating the kitchen before selling your house: it always pays off. And like renovating the kitchen, it takes a little work to get to the payoff. The upside is that once you’ve learned the [...]
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Pan-fried Chicken in Butter

By Drew | Published: March 10, 2008
I’ve been described as something of a “skin freak” when it comes to chicken and turkey. So it always catches me by surprise when someone says that they prefer skinless chicken breasts. Not as a dietary issue — which is misguided anyway — but they actually don’t like the skin. Baffling. That doesn’t mean I can’t [...]
Posted in Dinner, Fowl | Also tagged , , | 10 Comments

How to Make Pizza Soup

By Drew | Published: March 3, 2008
My junior high school cafeteria was probably no better or worse than the average cafeteria. But there were two things they made that were exceptional: pizza, and pizza soup. The pizza was thick and cheesy, and I never heard anyone say a bad word about it. The pizza soup, on the other hand, was great mostly [...]
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