July Fourth begs for a magnificent grill party. It’s summer, it’s a great celebration of the nation’s birth and everyone is outdoors and in party mode. Why hold back on July Fourth? Why not grill everything? With a couple of days’ planning, you can really do something amazingly and deliciously different. Here are four great […]
Archives for June 2015
The Best Meat Lover’s July 4th Grill Party Appetizer
When you’ve got a barbeque going I’ve always thought it silly and wasteful to spend all that time building the fire and then grilling that steak for all of 10 minutes. Nothing wrong with a steak but letting things cook long and slow–a real BBQ always seemed more fun and a great way to precede […]
4 Easy — And Cool — Pasta Dishes For Summer
Everyone loves pasta, but during hot summer days a bowl of steaming pasta doesn’t sound that appealing. Some people make cold macaroni salads, but I think pasta is not meant to be eaten cold and besides, those macaroni salads usually have mayonnaise in them and fill you up too much. The Italians have an ideal […]
Old-fashioned Breakfast Eggs Mornay
There’s nothing wrong with old- fashioned, and eggs Mornay certainly are that. They may seem extravagant for a home-cooked Sunday breakfast, but they are neither hard nor time-consuming to make. A Mornay sauce is a Béchamel sauce with cheese, and a Béchamel sauce is a white sauce made with a roux of flour and milk. […]
Simple Cast Iron Cooking: Lamb and Broccoli
You can safely say that I’ve gone cast iron crazy ever since my Cooking with Cast Iron class was produced for Craftsy. Sure I’ve owned and used plenty of my cast iron cookware over the years, but since March I hard put my skillet away and just leaf it stovetop cooking all kinds of […]
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