How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Today's blueberry peach crisp is another one from the Ohio State Grange Cook Book, Eleventh Edition, 1949. It started out as an apple crisp, but we didn't have a box of apples getting over-ripe on the counter -- we had peaches. And blueberries in the freezer. This is definitely one of our more successful experiments. … [Read more...]
Shrimp scampi is a really popular dish, which means it has more variations than you can shake a bamboo skewer at. About the only thing that's in pretty much all the recipes I've checked out is butter and garlic. And really, how can you go wrong when you start there? Interesting note: "Scampi" is actually a type of lobster. The preparation I'm showing here was a popular way of making it, so in the U.S. we now use the word "scampi" to refer to the style more often than the ingredient. … [Read more...]
Ice cream is pretty simple to make, but can be tedious and time-consuming. This one is too simple. You won't believe it's as good as I'm telling you. I didn't believe it either. I read about it over a month before I finally made it ... what a waste of time. If you like ice cream, you have to try this. It's amazing. … [Read more...]
I'm not doing this just to get angry comments from salsa fans, or pico de gallo purists. I swear I'm not. I was just trying to make something tasty with all the cilantro I'm getting from the garden, and the gorgeous mangoes they've had on sale at the grocery store the last couple of times. So the ingredients are sort-of like a salsa recipe, and sort-of like a pico de gallo recipe. And the texture is a bit chunkier than most salsa, but a bit wetter than most pico. One thing I'm sure of: … [Read more...]
This banana bread recipe is another one from the 1949 Ohio State Grange Cook Book. Like the others we've tried, this is much less sweet than other recipes I've tried, and I like it that way. You can add chocolate chips (like we did) or frosting and it won't become overly sweet. … [Read more...]
