How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
[Today is a guest post from Andrew Hall at the Apple a Day blog.] While it's important to salt foods in order to bring out their true flavor, salt is not the only way to add a little oomph to your cooking. Bring some ethnic flavor to everyday meals with these commonly-used spices. Simple to incorporate and readily available at any grocery stores, these spices are the perfect starters for your foray into ethnically-inspired cuisine. … [Read more...]
Roasted pumpkin seeds are definitely a seasonal treat. I don't think I've ever seen them in a store -- though I haven't looked for them -- and no one goes out and buys a pumpkin just to make the seeds. I'm pretty sure the first roasted pumpkin seeds were made by a cheapskate like me who, after carving the jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween, looked at all the stuff scraped out of the inside and said to himself, "Man, it seems like such a waste to throw all of that out. I wonder what I can make … [Read more...]
Deviled eggs are always the first thing to go at parties. But people keep trying to dress them up, make them "fancy" and "sophisticated". Which usually means paprika on top. Ooh, exciting. :-/ I respect the classic simplicity of a good deviled egg recipe. But yeah, I'll do the paprika too, just do they don't look so boring. Well, I used to do paprika. Not any more. … [Read more...]
This is a variation on the potted chicken with tomatoes that I did for the Aetna Healthy Food Fight. Actually, I should call the tomato recipe the variation, since other versions are much more like this one. For instance Susan at "Cooking to Save" has this version, that starts out almost exactly like mine. Then there's this one at DVO, which uses the whole chicken like in my previous version. (Though roasting it first before adding to the Dutch oven seems like just a way to dirty another … [Read more...]
A couple of weeks ago I ran a video showing how to make guacamole. I just found these pictures that I forgot I took, and thought I should take the opportunity to list the ingredients for the recipe. … [Read more...]
