A few years ago, my cousin turned me on to the pleasures of pressure cooking. If you’re going to make soups, stocks, stews, legumes, or even risotto, it’s a huge time-saver. It makes it possible to make things on weeknights that you’d usually hold for the weekend because of too-long cooking times. This also means…
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No Waste: Cooking With Sweet Potato Greens
Remember way back at the beginning of this gardening season, before daily 100-degree heat advisories set in? I had finally filled up my raised beds with soil and, lacking any other planting opportunities, I plunked some sprouting store-bought sweet potatoes in the ground in my enthusiasm. Yeah, they didn’t look very promising. They got even…
Chicago-Style Deep-Dish Pizza
Chicago-Style Deep-Dish Pizza Main Dishes, Special Occasions Difficulty: Easy Ingredients Dough 3¼ cups (16 1/4 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour ½ cup (2 3/4 ounces) yellow cornmeal 1½ tsp table salt 2 tsp sugar 2¼ tsp instant or rapid-rise yeast 1¼ cups water (10 ounces), room temperature 3 tbsp unsalted butter , melted, plus 4…
Tomatoes! (Canning Tomato Sauce & Tomato Jam)
There is no feeling like that of being overwhelmed with freshly-picked garden-fresh produce. It’s something you want to revel in — that sensation of abundance, the freshness, the deliciousness — but, before long, what sets in is panic. What in the world am I going to do with all this squash, all these cucumbers, 20…