CheapCooking
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Lemon Butter and Herb Chicken Leg Quarters
Chicken leg quarters are on sale these days, 77 cents a pound around here. That’s about as low as chicken goes these days. I bought a max pack and split them up and am doing two different things with them. First, I cut them all into leg and thigh pieces because none of us will…
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Asian Chicken Salad: Freshman In the Kitchen Book Review
I saw a review of this book, Freshman in the Kitchen: From Clueless Cook to Creative Chef, and since I have a daughter about to leave for college I actually wrote and asked for a review copy, a first for me. Max and Eli Sussman were kind enough to hook me up with their publisher…
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Home Grown Tomatoes and BLT Sandwiches
Picked the first homegrown tomatoes this evening and had BLTs for dinner. Summer doesn’t get much better than this. “There’s only two things that money can’t buy and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.”
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Salsa Verde Recipe / Tomatillo Salsa
I got the basis of this recipe from my niece’s boyfriend but I kicked it up a notch after tasting. Maybe he toned it down a notch, knowing I’m a gringo. 😉 Anyway, thanks to Daniel for the basis and encouragement! Lots of tomatillo recipes I saw online called for starting with the raw tomatillos…
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Book Review: America’s Most Wanted Recipes by Ron Douglas
Full title: America’s Most Wanted Recipes: Delicious Recipes from Your Family’s Favorite Restaurants I was sent a review copy of this book. So full disclosure, we do NOT eat out near as much as the average family, which is 3 times or more per week according to the press release they sent me with the…