From Scratch

It’s effortless, uses few ingredients and has a delicious twist: it creates its own sauce. No liquid is used. This recipe for brisket as pot roast is not your grandmother’s brisket. Not Bubbe’s at Passover nor Grammie’s on a cold day.
This is unlike any other recipe I’ve seen for braised brisket. Along with not needing liquid, […]

As the graphic proves, everyone can be Irish today. Americans of all ethnicities are making corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick’s Day, even though it’s not an Irish thing at all.
What?
Well, if you weren’t around last year at this time — and you probably were not, as this blog was only a couple days […]

 
Some weekends I just like to cocoon, listening to music, reading and dozing off whenever my body and mind want to. My slow cooker is my best friend on those days, enabling me to start a meal with minimal prep and leave it alone.
This is a favorite for those times. It came about when my […]

I’ll take a real chef over a “personality” any day, so I’m not too fond of The Food Network’s current crop of popular shows. Many of the chefs are gone or diminished, but every now and then I run across Tyler Florence. I always watch if I have time. He’s a chef who hasn’t forgotten […]

I’ve spent a lot of time in Ireland and was active in the Irish-American community in New York, and whenever I was asked why we Yanks think corned beef and cabbage go hand-in-hand with St. Patrick’s Day, I’d admit I didn’t know. I did know it wasn’t standard March 17th fare over there — bacon or […]

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I’m both a foodie and a news junkie,  living in the state with the first Presidential primary, so combining food with politics makes perfect sense to me.  The focus here is more on food and cooking, but as the primary gets closer and […]