Chorizo This Time But Most Any Fresh Sausage Works This recipe has been part of my culinary DNA for decades. It started life as Mum’s interpretation of a ‘back of the 1970s lifestyle magazine’ casserole and honestly hasn’t changed much since. It’s an easy way to fill a big pan to feed a crowd which is its main objective but you get delicious in … Read More →
A Little Extra Cheese Never Hurts You should all know my obsession with beans by now so I’ll not to bore you yet again. Soak from dry, five times cheaper, etc. etc. Here’s how I make a batch of particularly creamy pinto beans suitable for parking next to Mexican red rice. If you’ve ever been to a family-style Mexican restaurant, you’ll … Read More →
Just Say No To Hamburger Helper In my ongoing joust with the scourge of ‘convenience’ food, I was inspired to prove that a simple meat and potatoes gratin could be made from scratch pantry staples just as simply and just as quickly as ready-made ‘Hamburger Helper’ style boxes. My choice in the moment was pork and potato but it could just … Read More →
Keep It Ice Cold From Fridge To Glass A gentle reminder is in order for iced tea drinkers now that summer is upon us yet again. “Sun tea” – namely the tired old trend of leaving tea in a vat of water for the sun to gently percolate – is not only a microbial disaster waiting to happen, it also yields inferior flavour … Read More →
Made At Home Without The Drive Editor’s Note: I wasn’t planning on typing this up but more than three and a half actual (I think) people asked for it after seeing the curry lurking on the side of my recent basmasti rice missive. Butter Chicken I’m told was ‘invented’ in the 1950s by clever chefs with a surplus of meat from … Read More →
A Kitchen Bouquet That Doesn't Need Watering If you’re gearing up for holiday cooking, baking, and feasting, taking an hour to rethink your kitchen organization beforehand is a very a wise idea. Kitchens by their very nature are places of mayhem. Ingredients flying about and pots bubbling over with a circus sideshow of hot pan juggling out of the oven. Simplify and … Read More →
Far Too Many Hands In a fit of reorganization, I finally got round to sorting out my kitchen space to accommodate better video shooting. I’ve been trying to make more visual fodder for the YouTube crowd since that’s what pays me a few desperately needed pennies but the ‘plan, shoot, edit, write, & post’ cycle is no small feat … Read More →
Fatten Up Your Personal Recipe Box There’s a million “recipes for dinner tonight” articles at the tip of your internet fingertips but inspiration is never a bad thing to stock up on in the kitchen I say. Many of those lists also seem to get more and more impersonal and predictable as time goes on and if you’re deranged enough to … Read More →
