A lot of people are quite intimidated when it comes to cooking steak. Cooking a steak to perfection is not really all that hard . . . as long as you follow a few rules. I'm really lucky to live in the UK, where the beef is considered to be some of the best in the world. Top quality meat, marbled...
When I was growing up, you could tell what night of the week it was just by what we were having for supper.Saturday night we had comfort food. It would be either stew or baked beans or something like that. On Sunday we had a big dinner . . . probably a roast of one kind or another. Mondays was leftovers from Sunday...
Quite often you can find some tasty recipes on the backs and sides of boxes of food . . . you know, like cereal boxes and such. It's not quite as common over here in the UK as it is back in North America, but it does happen from time to time.
I recently bought a box of oats and there was this tasty recipe on the back...
I make no secret of it, and I'll be the first to admit it. I'm a lousy bread baker. . . I'm not sure why, but when it comes to baking bread I make better door stops than I do bread . . . in fact, the bread I bake comes pretty close to resembling doorstops . . .I've tried so many times through the years to perfect it,...
Some days I am sincerely lacking in time. Days when I have extra work on up at the big house that I cook in, and then have the shopping to do for work as well . . . and yet . . . we still have to eat here at home.I still have to feed my husband and myself.Those are the days when I rely on a well stocked larder.A well...
Parsnips wasn't something that we really ate much of when I was growing up. My mom hated them. I remember her cooking them once, lightly boiled and then sliced and fried in butter. She wanted to see if her dislike for them had diminished.It hadn't.I loved them though, and I still do. (I know . . . what don't I love???...
Having only discovered apricots late in life, I confess . . . I am carrying on a love affair with them. Happily it's a love affair that I share with my husband . . . for he loves them too.Call it a Culinary Menage a Trois . . .I discovered this tasty little cake the other day in one of my newer cookbooks, Feed Me Now,...
Alright . . . I confess. The potato IS my favourite vegetable. That's why "low carbing it" has never worked for me.I love them in any way, shape or form.I love em mashed.I love em fried.I love em boiled and baked.Heck, when I was a kid I even used to beg raw pieces off my mom when she was getting them ready for our supper.She...
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