A long time ago I developed this American Homestyle Cooking philosophy. First, I would cook for friends and family so they would enjoy food… and then,, I worked to simplify. Nothing made me crazier than one of those bourgeois cookbooks full of extra steps. My motto, like the food, would be simple: “Be the best and be generous.”
Dinner. It’s More Important than Either You or I Thought This is my roundup post about dinner. I’ve been thinking about dinner a lot these days, and not just because I’m hungry. Dinner is more important than I thought. And it’s hard to get a “real” (three course, meat, starch, and vegetable) dinner together every […]
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The Best Cherry Pie Recipe is the thing in our house! It’s actually a very simple one as long as you know how to make a pastry which I have covered in the apple pie recipe elsewhere on this blog. To make a cherry pie you need two cans of tart cherries. I’ll always remember
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I know, this is pretty simple stuff … but back to my cooking philosophy: so much of the world of food is get-it-done, working. Such as it is for cottage potatoes, and such it is in my recipe for pancakes in a skillet. Somewhere else on the web I read that you don’t fry pancakes,
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Martha Stewart No More? Hello America I have bad news to tell you. Which could actually be good news. In the last thirty years, you’ve been sold a bill of goods about cooking. Cooking is not a game or a recreational activity. Vanity cooking has obscured a human truth. Which is that cooking is work.
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What food would you say is your specialty? The truth is I have a lot of specialties but apple pie is one of them and I have a good picture. And a recipe. Pie is something I started making for the family because they kept requesting it. When I was a teenager I used to
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The famous cottage potatoes thing started because I couldn’t make hash browns correctly. There was just no way the hash browns were able to develop the texture I desired and when I really thought about it I had to admit that the hash browns in the restaurant were not much better. It is true that
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Last week Tiara and her fam went to a local apple farm and for $25 they picked more apples than they could eat. She brought me about a bushel of apples and said here you go. I called up Karen and I said “Hey can I borrow the apple peeler- slicer and the food dryer?
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