How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Why is it a whole beef roast might cost as little as $4 per pound but the same thing, sliced thin and called "cold cuts", is suddenly at least $6 per pound? Is slicing it that hard? Not really. Of course you have to roast it first. Which means you get a nice Sunday dinner out of it, and use the leftovers for sandwiches. Like you're supposed to. (Oh, and did I mention you get gravy this way? Can't forget the gravy.) … [Read more...]
Recently my wife and I made dinner for a family where one of the children is allergic to eggs. They had a list of substitutions that really surprised me. We used one of those tips to make brownies without eggs. This post won't have a recipe. It's reference for future posts where I'll show some of these tips in action. I don't have any food allergies, but I'd like to see how various substitutions work in different recipes. … [Read more...]
Yesterday Dinneen told us how she used to follow all the latest "conventional wisdom" about how to eat. Until she went to France, and saw people enjoying real food, and enjoying much better health than we do in the U.S. In the comments, MeadowLark posted a link to an article describing a study comparing four different types of diet. I've never taken an entire post to discuss health issues before, only noting them in passing. But this article got so many things wrong that I want to use it as … [Read more...]
As promised, here's the sausage that I made for the pizza. If you like your sausage really mild, go with this recipe. I left out the fennel seeds that are characteristic of most sausage, because my wife hates them. I'm not such a huge fan either, so that's fine with me. But even had I included them this would have been exceedingly mild. I resisted my normal inclination to up the spices and cut down on the second try if it's too much. This time I'm going to work my way up to the level of … [Read more...]
I've tried French onion soup in a few restaurants but I never liked it. Probably because I tried it at chain places that used frozen or dehydrated. But from what's in it -- beef broth and roasted onions -- this is something I should just love. So I decided to make some for myself and see. And, surprise, when made with real ingredients ... this stuff is good. (But I still need a good copycat recipe for onion soup mix to use in recipes, like dip. Oh, and while you're here, you might want to … [Read more...]
