Growing up, we often ate stracotto for Sunday dinner. Stracotto is an Italian pot roast that蘑菇视频 cooked for a long period of time. (Actually, stracotto means overcooked.)Pot roast typically consists of boneless chuck, which needs a long braising time to break down the tough connective tissues, ...
Mardi Gras brings visions of two things, parades and food. Ok, there are some other things, but this is a family newspaper. And food, is where I come in.A few years ago, my wife, Stacy and I had the pleasure of visiting New Orleans a week before Mardi Gras. My cousin, Joe Toomy, a congressman ...
A few months back, we added a chest freezer and a downstairs refrigerator to our home.I wondered, quite honestly, how I鈥檇 fill either. We鈥檇 existed for several years with the lone fridge with its two freezer drawers in our kitchen. I kept both filled; often to the brim with cooked ahead ...
When my mother passed away recently, my sister compared her to Mary Tyler Moore, who had died that same day. I had compared her to Carol Burnett. We were born nine years apart, and by the time I had come along, there were several others in the middle. I guess six kids turn you sarcastically ...
If I invested based on the products I use most, I would own stock in slow cookers, glass canning jars and soup ladles.Anyone who regularly reads this column knows my slow cookers are like the fourth, fifth and sixth children in our home.Because I don鈥檛 always have time to stand at the stove ...
Back to the future is the theme for food trends this year.The macro/micro/mad scientist approach to food is giving way. We are looking to more pure global foods while also reverting to old school cooking and preserving. In checking in with our local food sources, it seems to be pointing in that ...
