How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
13 Things Made Of Bacon That Shouldn't Be They've got the bacon bra, and the bacon dress looks just like the bacon tux, both of which I've already shown. I'm a huge fan of the bacon world, in the photo up top. No, no point to this post. Just wanted to share the bacon. … [Read more...]
For the first time in several years, someone told me a trick for peeling hard-boiled eggs that I hadn't heard before. So of course I had to try it. … [Read more...]
I just spent the most frustrating half-hour online. I was looking for tips on how to identify good poultry. You know, like with steak you look for good color and marbling, with vegetables you want them heavy for their size and not soft or bruised. But chicken? Can't find a single word about it. Oh sure, there's lots of stuff about different kinds of chicken: fryers, capons, Cornish game hen -- yeah, "game", not believing it. But when I'm looking into the meat counter at the grocery store, how … [Read more...]
During the fall and winter, I eat pork chops, baked potatoes and salad. But in the summer, that just feels to "heavy" for a hot night. So instead I grill the pork chops, slice them thin and put them on top of the salad, which is bigger, and put the potato on the side. And somehow this tells my brain, "You're actually eating a salad. Nice and light for a hot summer night.It just happens to have an entire pork chop sitting on top of it." It doesn't have to make sense. It just works. … [Read more...]
By now I should know better than to criticize my grill behind its back. Yesterday Barb said that she was getting a new grill for her birthday to replace her "falling apart grill". I told her that mine was also not doing well, specifically mentioning that the splatter shield looked more like a screen. Well, that's just tempting fate, don't you think? Instead of heating up and vaporising grease as it dripped, like it's supposed to do, it just flared up and got all smoky. I wasn't trying for … [Read more...]
