Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
I’m not a huge fan of spicy, but I do love General Tso’s (pronounced General Chow’s) Chicken. This home-made version is every bit as good as from a Chinese restaurant, with none of the MSG, mystery meat or food colouring attached! You can use cornstarch battered and fried chicken for this recipe, or use julienne’d strips of…
It’s tough to compete with ginger ale in the land of Canada Dry, even though many of the fans lament that they no longer get real ginger in it and have to deal with high fructose corn syrup. Ginger syrup is surprisingly easy to make: it’s water, sweetener, and ginger boiled together until reduced. Really,…
Nothing says taste of summer in the south like a pulled pork sandwich. Unfortunately, pulled pork is something that people frequently don’t make right. They grab a bottle of BBQ sauce and a pork shoulder, toss everything in the crock pot together, and they get discouraged because the end result is bitter and… well, gross. Well, my…
So, I’ve had a couple of disasters in the test kitchen already, and I thought I’d share. I’ve been spending the last couple days dithering between books on preserving and books on making stuff from scratch, and decided to play with The Homemade Pantry. I picked it up from the library, but I’m slobbering…