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Turkey soup, Take 2

January 30, 2008 (Updated March 23, 2014) by Drew Kime

Fowl, Soup grandmother's recipe, Thanksgiving

The last time I made turkey soup I totally spoiled my kids for ever giving them canned soup again. This time I think I've ruined myself. I knew I wanted to get some turkey or chicken thighs, since I much prefer dark meat for soup. Actually I prefer it for just about everything. All I could find on short notice was bone-in. I didn't think that would matter. (Remember this line -- it comes back to bite me in the end.) This would be the first time I did turkey soup that didn't start from … [Read more...]

Pasta carbonara

January 22, 2008 (Updated March 24, 2014) by Drew Kime

Dinner, Pasta, Pork Butter, grandmother's recipe, Italian

Depending on who you talk to, carbonara may have eggs, cream, mushrooms, peas, garlic, pepper, and any of a half-dozen different kinds of cheese as the "proper" ingredients. I'm not a purist about it. I just care how it tastes. Oh, and "easy to make with what I already have" is pretty good, too. … [Read more...]

Rib steak with broiled asparagus and broccoli

January 15, 2008 (Updated March 24, 2014) by Drew Kime

Beef broiling, frying, gluten free, grandmother's recipe, Maillard reaction, Undieting

You might think after three days of eating prime rib I'd be a little tired of it for a while. If so, you'd be wrong. Maybe if I had gone four days straight then I'd have gotten tired of it. I guess I'll have to try it sometime and see. Until then, I'm going to keep enjoying days like this past Saturday. I took the girls to the West Side Market, had some lunch on the balcony, and picked up a rib steak and some veggies for dinner. … [Read more...]

Fettucini Alfredo

January 11, 2008 (Updated March 23, 2014) by Drew Kime

Dinner, Pasta grandmother's recipe, Italian, recipe card

Here's a tip for any single folks trying to impress a date: Invite them over for dinner and whip up a killer Alfredo sauce from scratch while they're sipping a glass of wine. Pull this one off and you won't have to be good at anything else for at least a week. The best part is it's probably one of the easiest things you can make.1 … [Read more...]

You, yes you, can make lasagna from scratch

December 16, 2007 (Updated November 21, 2013) by Drew Kime

Dinner, Pasta grandmother's recipe, Italian

I was never good at chemistry. I was fine at the book work but I was absolutely hopeless in the lab. That's why I leave the baking to my wife. She's great at fine-tuning a recipe and getting it just right time after time. I'm more of a seat-of-the-pants kind of cook. Taste it along the way, come out with something I like. But don't ask me when I'm done whether it was one teaspoon of oregano or one-and-a-half. That's why this step-by-step lasagna recipe is going to have a couple of steps that … [Read more...]