Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
Some people believe that eating food prepared from scratch and having a full time job are mutually exclusive… or a recipe for exhaustion. It’s not true. I know this, because I’ve had that 9-5 job, a kid who required a lot of scratch food, and a commute. The secret, as anyone who has ever been in…
I have an addiction to collecting cookbooks, which is weird, cause I so seldom use them. I might flip through them and get some ideas, but usually a recipe gets modified on paper before I ever put it to the stove. I don’t like using convenience foods that are full of junk ingredients, and it…
I almost always walk home with the bird carcass from any family gathering. Nobody ever fights me for it because nobody knows how to make delicious soup from it. Or they can’t be bothered. Their loss! It makes me giddy because I love soup, and I’d rather have the soup than huge chunks of leftover…
A true pot roast begins as a densely muscled and tough cut of meat. This means it usually comes from the chuck, round or rump. Some diagrams lump “rump” and “round” together, so if you can’t find the rump on a butchering diagram, rest assured, it’s exactly where it sounds like it belongs. I grew up…