Remember, every summer, when your Mom (or Grandma) made Pickles? What do you remember best? Dills? Bread and Butter? Green Tomato Pickles? Sweet Chili Sauce? Chow-Chow? They’re all classics and I’ve got the original recipes from my Mom’s High School Cook Book!Read More →
It’s Burger Season and most of us look forward to a nice, juicy Beef Pattie piled high with the traditional garnishes. But some prefer to eat Vegetarian and still others are adamant Vegans. That calls for a really good, tender, flavourful Veggie Burger, which is a rare pleasure, indeed!Read More →
Okay, let’s get this out of the way without further adieu: Macerating Fruit is NOT the same as making Jam or Compote. I got a bunch of feedback on yesterday’s post on Drunken Fruit and it’s clear that some of my faithful readers are still unclear on the differences – which are major!Read More →
Today we’ll explore the wonderful Boozy world of Maceration. Marination, a term often misused in reference to this process, only goes part way to Maceration’s ultimate destination, and takes a lot longer to get there. Have you ever marinated something for two weeks?Read More →
Today we inaugurate a series of recipe posts reviving real old-fashioned dishes, the way they made them in your Grandma’s day. We’re literally mining the pages of the Domestic Science Text Books from Prairie High Schools of the 30′ and 40s to bring you simple delights from an age when Lard was King!Read More →
A mammoth platter of Chicken and Waffles – and a whole bunch of other stuff – from Darlington, County Durham, in the UK, has claimed the Fabulous Food Blog title of Most Excessive Menu Item. You have to run down the ingredients list to believe it. I’ll let you guess how many Calories the thing packs!Read More →
You’ve heard of the Paleo Diet – the one that advocates eating only foods presumed to have been eaten by prehistoric humans – but do you really know all that entails? Today, we’ll look at one prehistoric delicacy that nobody was talking about until somebody declared it a ‘superfood’…Read More →
Definitely file this one under ‘Pizza Lore’. Top Pizzaiolos (pizza chefs) from around the world got together earlier this month to bake the world’s longest Pizza. It came in at over a mile (1.6 km)! l’ll bet you want to know how they did it. So did I. But more compelling to me was why they did it…Read More →