The weather is heating up which means it is time to break out those refreshing summer dishes. We love spring and summer food. Everything feels lighter and healthier. This cold Greek tortellini salad is exactly what a summer dish should be. It’s got some great garden items combined with the refreshing tang of lemon. It’s a great one to take to summer picnics or potlucks. Cooking Lesson: Generally you don’t rinse pasta because in doing so it rinses away starch....
So you use a match, and for some reason that grill. Will. Just. Not. Get. Hot. Enough. So you start over with the Weber and some charcoal, and grill a batch of beautiful skirt steak skewers that were marinating the whole time you were futzing with the equipment. And they are so perfect and delicious that you don’t care about the broken starter that needs to get fixed or your close call with a black widow....
Uh, because I’m not Southern and I can’t even try to fake it with our readers? Well my dear ole dad found a recipe for grits he couldn’t pass up. The recipe is by the wonderfully talented chef Virginia Willis in her book, Bon Appetit, Y’all: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking. These grits were so good he made the recipe twice! What I have learned in researching grits is that people who grew up eating them are passionate about how they like them — white corn, hominy grits, with syrup for breakfast, etc....
Easy peasy with ground pork A lot of pork casseroles feature pulled pork. Instead of a recipe that required making a completely separate batch of pulled pork, we opted for ground pork in this casserole. Ground pork is cheap and adds a lot of savory flavor. It also mixes well with the potatoes and takes on the savory sauce, it’s really the perfect ingredient! The sauce does it all The sauce in this healthy pork casserole recipe is super simple, yet adds amazing depth of flavor....
Justin’s Mom raises pigs, and a couple times a year we are fortunate enough to get a half of a hog from her. It’s the BEST pork. But after learning the butcher uses MSG in the breakfast sausage seasoning, we decided to get plain ground pork and make both the breakfast sausage and breakfast sausage seasoning at home. A healthy breakfast sausage When doing a Whole30 or following the Keto diet, it can be hard to find a breakfast sausage made without sugar....
What Is The Root Used To Make Root Beer? Did you know that root beer was actually traditionally made with a root? Making root beer in the past involved using plants like sassafras root or sarsaparilla. Today, root beer extract is made from a combination of vanilla, licorice, and other flavors. Sugar Options: We use plain white sugar for this homemade root beer recipe. That said, if you have a sugar alternative that you prefer, feel free to use that instead!...
Let me show you how to make this easy pork chop recipe with my step by step guide below. Honey Garlic Pork Chops It is very easy to mess with pork meat, it is lean meat so it can be easily overcooked, bland, flavourless or even dry. That is not the case with this pork chop recipe and it is one of my preferred way of cooking it. I can’t get enough of honey garlic sauce, it is a versatile sauce that goes well with chicken, fish like my honey garlic salmon or steak bites....
I love doing homemade version of chicken simmer sauces you can purchase in jars, like the Everyday Chicken Curry sauce. Homemade is a gazillion times more delicious! Honey Mustard Chicken How many Aussies reading this remember this jingle from the 90’s?? ? I feel like Chicken Tonight, like Chicken Tonight! ? It was for an advert for a range of simmer sauces called “Chicken Tonight” sold in jars at supermarkets....
There are all sorts of culinary uses for sriracha, check out these mean buffalo wings with sriracha sauce from my friends Diane and Todd. For an experiment we thought we would jack up the humble hot dog with this sauce. We added a little Chinese mustard and topped the dog with asian coleslaw; it turned out great, we loved it! Even my dad, who tends to hold back on hot chilies gobbled up his....
How To Pick A Good Spaghetti Squash: You can find this vegetable at the grocery store or your local farmer’s market. You’ll want to choose one that feels heavy and is free of mushy spots. You’ll know you’ve got a good one when the stem is rounded, dry, and firm, not soft. If it’s missing a stem or is cracked, skip it! A Note On Cooking Time: You’ll see on the recipe card below that your roasted spaghetti squash will take between 40-50 minutes to cook....
If you like this recipe, you may be interested in these other delicious watermelon recipes: How to pick a ripe watermelon: There are a few ways to tell if a watermelon is ripe: If you hold it against your belly and give it a pat, you should feel a good thump against your belly.The webbing should be larger. Smaller and tighter webbing means it was picked too soon and will not be as sweet....
Maybe you only needed a few sprigs for a recipe, but had to buy a whole bundle. Perhaps you have an herb garden with a harvest much bigger than you can use during the season or a neighbor who shares their bounty. When you only need a tablespoon chopped here and five leaves there when cooking, it’s easy for big bundles to be forgotten as they wilt away in the fridge....
So why not work it to your advantage? Everything we say here goes for lasagna and most any other casserole. This whole process is very adaptable. Think of it as a choose-your-own-adventure in meal prep! Can You Freeze Cooked Lasagna? Yes! In fact, you can freeze most casseroles unbaked, or bake them first, then freeze. Why choose one over the other? Convenience, mainly. You might have time to put a casserole together, but not time to bake and cool it....
Grades of Steak There are three grades of steak that you will find in a US supermarket: Select, Choice, and Prime. Select is generally the grade of sale-priced, or advertised meat. If it is choice grade, it will be advertised as such. Select grade is just above what the USDA deems edible. So if you buy Select grade meat, don’t be surprised when it isn’t that great. It will always be worth it to pay the extra money per pound for the Choice grade....
Not only do you save money because you don’t have to buy boxed stock, the stock itself is so much healthier for you because of all the iron, collagen, and vitamin-rich marrow from the bones. There are several ways to make chicken stock. Three of our favorite methods are presented here. How to Make Chicken Stock from Roasted Bones The first method uses the leftover bones from a chicken carcass and vegetables (which means it’s practically free), and takes several hours of slow cooking....
This is a personal struggle I’ll be very honest, I have struggled quite a bit with the challenge of making new friends as an adult. By no means do I have it all figured out. I’m a work in progress and these tips I’m writing today are as much for me as anyone else. As a natural introvert, I’ve never been the outgoing type who easily made friends. For me, friendships were usually cultivated over time with people I eventually got to know and become comfortable with....
This is a quick and easy recipe you will love, let me show you how to make spicy mayo in two minutes. Homemade spicy mayo If you are looking for a mayonnaise-based dipping sauce, then this spicy mayo recipe is for you. It is as simple as it gets and all you need is a handful of ingredients and 2 minutes. This is an Asian-inspired recipe and it is not made with kewpie but mayonnaise which is easily available in shops....
The home bartender would be well-advised to practice and prepare the classics not only for his or her own sake, but because each is a jumping-off point for another fifty cocktails you can either find or invent for yourself. Start here and feel free to adjust or substitute any of the key ingredients. 10 Classic Cocktails for Beginners Sazerac: One of the first cocktails, and still one of the more sublime combinations of a spirit with light aromatics....
I realized a vegan kitchen has more in common with an omnivore one than I first thought. That night for dinner, I adapted my dinner plans (eggplant parm) and made an eggplant, lentil, olive, and tomato casserole instead. I also realized I could actually go the rest of the week without another trip to the store. I had oatmeal, canned beans, a crisper full of vegetables, pasta, rice, and more....
