Bringing "back in the day" back to today
This is one of those recipes. The ones that comes up after you eat the same meals over and over again. With high hopes you add it to your menu. And as sure as the sun rises and sets it gets skipped that week. I can’t really say why, it’s not like it is complicated …
OK, I don’t have much to say about this recipe other than I’ve been making these muffins since I was twelve years old. This recipe hails from some ancient version of the Betty Crocker cookbook and is still my favorite muffin recipe.
This recipe represents my first attempt at a homemade yeast bread item and it’s success is largely to blame for the insanity that ensued. Had these rolls been disgusting, I do believe we may have never moved forward with our quest to rid our house of store bought breads. I LOVE rolls and always have …
Growing up just outside of Utica means that chicken riggies were a must have at picnics, family functions, and on restaurant menus. Interestingly, if you stray too far from the Utica/Rome region people don’t know what the heck you’re talking about. Over the past few years, I have seen Utica chicken riggies popping up on menus …
If you are in need of comfort food, this is it! This chicken and rice soup is creamy, flavorful, and mmm, mmm, good. Make it once and you’ll say good-bye to Campbell’s. Obviously, this is not going to be as easy or as quick as popping open canned soup. Bear with me here. I did …
There were two reasons why this recipe made the menu this week. For one, I was sick of a can of water chestnuts staring at me every time that I opened the pantry. And when it’s below zero outside, a cooped up New Yorker will do just about anything to remind themselves of summer. This …
It all started when I was a kid. Taco night. I always looked forward to taco night. But, you need to understand that we are talking about store bought taco seasoning packet with crispy taco shells of unknown vintage. They were great, shredded lettuce and mozzarella cheese topped bottled taco sauce. As I have grown …
Let me start off by saying that Foodgawker, Tastespotting and all the recipe sites hate our pictures. Until the constant barrage of rejection flooded our inbox I could honestly say that I had not given any thought to how to take a picture of food. Clearly, I am not a photographer. We’re in there swinging …
Update: After several months of making this recipe there a couple of additions we want to add. Firstly, the more that you make this recipe, or any bread recipe for that matter, the better you get at forming the loaves and before you know it, they will look like bread from your favorite bakery. Another observation is …
Two of things that keep a food blogger on their toes are to keep up with the newest trends in food and cooking food that our family will actually eat. This recipe covers both. As part of my day to day activities, I look at the big food blog sites and look for interesting things …