Category: How To
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The Pig that Sits at our Table
When the girls were little and I was working on their table manners, I spotted an idea in a magazine that I thought sounded fun. I found a cute little ceramic pig to put on the table. He’s meant to be a salt shaker but he’s our “good manners” reminder. The way it worked was…
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Shepherd’s Pie #4
I’ve played around with a number of Shepherd’s Pie recipes and I think tonight’s was the best yet. First, I will say yes I know that this technically was a “Cottage Pie” if you’re British apparently. I used ground beef rather than lamb. In my part of the US, it would be called Shepherd’s Pie…
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Cooking Sunday
Sometimes the best way to save money is to do as much as you can on the weekends to make your week go more smoothly. To that end, today I: Mixed up and refrigerated a tart crust to make a quiche later this week (recipe from Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from…
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Chicken Under a Brick, Roast Potatoes and Salad
Flattening a whole chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening it a bit makes it cook more quickly. I’ve done this before, with a recipe from Jacques Pepin that was browned on the stove and then finished in the oven. Tonight I did the same technique, but just rubbed some salt, pepper, granulated garlic…
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Menu: Pork Chops, Applesauce, Spinach and Baked Potatoes
No cookbooks to credit with this dinner tonight. Definitely one I can do in my sleep almost! In order of cooking: Baked potatoes Scrub, pierce with a fork a few times, bake on an oven rack at 350-400F depending on how much time you have and how large the potatoes are. My medium sized ones…