How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
When I brought in my meager pepper harvest, I wondered what I could do with such a sad collection. Genie suggested dehydrating and grinding them. That sounded easier than pickling, so I gave it a shot. I'm glad I did. … [Read more...]
I don't know why I haven't shown this one yet. This is how you prep peppers when they're going to be cooked into something and you don't care if each individual slice is pretty and presentable. … [Read more...]
After the pictures I posted recently of my meager pepper plants, you might be surprised to see that awesome harvest above. I know I was. … [Read more...]
Pico de gallo is not salsa. It looks like mostly the same ingredients, and it is. But the proportions are completely different. This is not a sauce -- salsa is just the Spanish word for sauce, after all -- it's more like a salad. A fresh, zesty, simple salad that is great on its own, and makes lots of other dishes even better. … [Read more...]
The first time you make a recipe with jalapeños, there's something that the recipe probably won't say: don't use the ones in a jar that you find on a shelf next to the pickles. Those are great on nachos, but you don't want to cook with them. Which means you'll need to know how to cut fresh jalapeños. So here it is. … [Read more...]
