A recent tweet from CC Chapman at SxSW about his hotel room having no amenities for preparing food (fridge or microwave) got me thinking: what’s the best food you could prepare in such conditions, assuming you had access to a local grocery store but not much else, and you didn’t want to buy a ton…
You’d think for a product that just requires boiling that pasta would be instant win for virtually nearly every cook. Not so. Here’s 5 easy things you can do to make better pasta. 1. Your iPhone/iPod Touch/Crackberry likely has a timer function. Use it. Read the pasta box. See where it says how long to…
Salsa. One of my favorite snacking condiments, one of the most overpriced jars you’ll ever find on a supermarket shelf. A recent price check at my local supermarket put a small jar of salsa around $5, which is insane given the cost of materials. So let’s say farewell to absurd prices and make our own…
I like tomato soup, but so many of the commercial canned soups fall woefully short. Here’s a recipe I use to make it from scratch. You’ll need a stick blender for best results. Ingredients 3 large cans of tomatoes, crushed or diced 1 large onion, diced 4 cloves of garlic, diced 1 tsp freshly ground…
A tasty treat, and useful if you’re trying to cook for a lot of people on, say, Christmas morning. Get a tube of fast-bake dinner rolls of any brand you prefer. Separate them out. Grease a 9×13 pan. Use as little or as much as needed to keep stuff from sticking to it. Lay out…
Please subscribe to my blog and share it with friends and colleagues. I was going to say it’s easy as pie, but if you’ve ever tried to bake a pie, it’s not necessarily easy. Whoever thought that expression up clearly did not take into account the lack of pastry skill that most of us have.…
In a conversation today about how to best reach people, one author noted that she tries to be as general as possible to reach the widest audience. Here’s the funny thing about that – I’ve found that the opposite is true. The more specific you are, the more you reach people, at least in storytelling.…
Want to save money and still eat well? Try this stupidly simple office breakfast that’s low carb, high protein, cheap as can be, and tasty. All the materials together will probably give you about 10 days’ worth of breakfast and cost only 2 days’ worth. You’ll need: 1. A pack of fajita wraps. I tend…
An interesting thing I tried over the weekend. Take a can of crushed tomatoes, add salt and pepper as necessary, then pour it all on a baking sheet and bake it in the oven at 170 degrees for 12 hours or until dry and dark. You end up with a snack that tastes like sun-dried…
They’re considered relics of antiquity now, but once upon a time, corporate sponsored cookbooks were all the rage. In my grandmother’s kitchen cabinets, you could find the Betty Crocker cookbook series, Good Housekeeping’s set, Kraft’s set, you name it. Dozens and dozens of cookbooks, some famous in their own right. Each of the cookbooks had…
