Lately I’ve been on an eat-healthier-workout-more kick and having embarked on a great many of these phases over the past few years, I can tell you that I don’t know exactly what “works” but I do know what doesn’t work for me: eating “diet” food. No matter how much low-fat this, fat-free that I try to buy, it just doesn’t get eaten. Or it gets eaten but it’s unsatisfying and three days later I”m all like “pass the triple creme…
If there is one thing that every beginner cook should have in her kitchen, it’s an immersion blender. Unlike an actual blender, which few people have the precious counter space for (my own VitaMix enjoyed a two year respite in a storage bin in my friend’s basement when I lived in my itty-bitty studio apartment), immersion blenders are slim, hand held and can fit in most drawers.…
Even though there are a lot of recipes that are great for cooking for one or cooking for two, pulled pork and barbecued ribs are not among those recipes. Whether you cook your pork on the grill, in a smoker or in the slow cooker (which I do, much to the horror of barbecue chefs everywhere) most recipes are going to call for a minimum three or four pound pork shoulder. Because no one should have to exist without pulled…
If you invited your friends over for a backyard Memorial Day barbecue during a moment of culinary hopefulness, then right about now you might be = wrestling with the fact that you don’t actually own a grill. Nor do you know how to prepare any of the types of things that would generally need to be cooked on said grill. Or, maybe you’re already a young Jacques Pépin but you’re simply not up for the task of manning the grill all day while…