It's easy to get discouraged when you first start learning to cook for yourself. Nothing tastes as good as what Mom used to make. Heck, you can't even top the stuff that comes out of a box or a can or the frozen-food aisle.If this describes you, there's one thing I'll bet no one has ever told you that will get you through this roadblock: use salt. … [Read more...]
The secret to a perfect Thanksgiving turkey
November 23, 2007 (Updated March 23, 2014) by
Roasting a delicious, beautiful, crispy-skinned, juicy turkey for Thanksgiving isn't nearly as hard as most people think. True, I've eaten enough dried out, flabby-skinned mounds of sadness to know that the secret is not well known. It's high time the secret got out. The first thing you have to understand is that the federal guidelines for cooking temperature are written by the same people who require a warning label on a cigarette lighter that the contents are flammable. In fact, the USDA … [Read more...]