If you haven’t run across these videos on your own, check out The Scott Rea Project on YouTube. Whether you want to learn how to butcher a cow—well, that’s too big a job for my kitchen—or how to make a … Continue reading Best Butcher/Chef Videos: The Scott Rea Project
I’ve tried many methods for fried chicken. The ones that use only flour, or the three stage flour–egg–breadcrumb process, or the buttermilk marinade followed by breading, but it seems like the crispness doesn’t hold up for more than a minute … Continue reading Recipe Review: Crispy Fried Chicken
I’m not sure yours will be so green If my Ancestry DNA profile is correct, I have 22% Irish ethnicity. Not that you’d know it by anything in my upbringing. Apparently my maternal grandfather was bullied as a Protestant dog … Continue reading Recipe Review: Edible Irish Soda Bread
I dislike the WordPress Reader for one reason: the way it strips our posts of any of the design features we chose when we made our sites. Photos that we may have inserted as a thumbnail next to a sentence or in a bulleted list shows up full size in the text as just another image. What’s the point of choosing a size and placement if our readers aren’t going to see it that way? How might it affect their perception of the post? Sometimes, I indent my ingredients under one direction (as in add 1/2 cup of each of … Continue reading Reading my Recipes in the WP Reader
Update: my husband said it was tasty, and I’ll take that as success. I’ve never seen nor tasted a chocolate babka or any other kind of babka, but when I looked it up recently and saw the photos, I was … Continue reading Chocolate Babka, Once
This really works—with a number of qualifications. There are so many instructions on how to make your own coconut butter that you either close your eyes and pick one or you read them all and make up your own instructions. … Continue reading The Trials of Making Coconut Butter
Don’t say I never make anything chocolate for my husband. Early last fall, I had some walnuts and chocolate chips laying around from a cookie recipe that didn’t take nearly as many ingredients as I had thought and I figured … Continue reading Brownie Mix Review: Ghirardelli Triple Fudge
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