I learned most of my cooking skills under the tutelage of my mother. On special occasions, when she had a lot of cooking to do, she’d hand me a recipe card and put me to work. We’d work alongside one another, and I’d occasionally ask her what was meant by words like “sift” or “fold.”…
Food & Drink
How to Eat on a Dollar a Day
Interesting piece from Time magazine’s Cheapskate blog on a couple of schoolteachers who set out to eat on a dollar a day. They got the idea from discussing how much of the world eats on a dollar a day.
Weeknight Homemade Pizza
Pizza is one of those things that people grow accustomed to eating out or getting delivered. Pizza places are just so ubiquitous and it’s unbelievably easy (by design, of course) to call Dominos or Papa Johns, so even folks who regularly cook at home don’t bother trying to concoct their own. However, doing it…
Measured
I’m a bit of a lazy cook. Or maybe a lazy cleaner-upper. So, when I make things that require measurement, I try to use as few measuring implements as possible. Like, if a recipe calls for 1/2 cup of oil and 1 cup of flour, I’ll re-use the 1/2 cup measure twice to parcel out…