How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
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...]
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...]
Tell people that you've got an herb garden and you'll get some funny looks. Most of them think herbs are those dried flakes you get in little plastic bottles in the grocery store. They seem to add more color than flavor half the time. Why on earth would you go to all the trouble to grow your own? Now that grocery stores are starting to carry fresh herbs more people are getting turned on to the huge flavor you can get from fresh. But even the best handling puts at least a couple of days … [Read more...]
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...]
