Be sure to have all the ingredients ready before starting the sauce. It’s ready more quickly than you expect. Good tasting fresh tomatoes make all the difference here; cherry tomatoes work especially well and just need to be cut in half. Makes enough sauce for about four- to … [Read more...] about Recipe: Easy Fresh Tomato Sauce
Recipes
Recipe: Mushroom-crusted Steak with Sauce
Boeuf en croûte champignons avec sauce vin rouge Mushroom crusted steaks with red wine sauce This classic red wine sauce can accompany any kind of red meat. Trim extra fat or sinew off the meat to use as the basis of the sauce or toss in a few pieces of stew meat. I use a mix of … [Read more...] about Recipe: Mushroom-crusted Steak with Sauce
Leftovers and Menu Planning: A week of what passes for dinner in my house
After my Bullshit Revisited post, I received mail and comments suggesting that what I was advocating was spending hours in the kitchen everyday. No, I just want people to cook. If it's for 10 minutes or 110 minutes, I don't care. Just leave the boxes on the shelf and prepare a … [Read more...] about Leftovers and Menu Planning: A week of what passes for dinner in my house
Recipe testers wanted. Bad cooks welcome.
I'm hoping that the name of my second book says it all: Changing Courses: A Mission to Get People Off the Couch and into the Kitchen. Like my last book, this is a memoir with recipes. This time, instead of the classic and complicated French cuisine that I learned at Le Cordon … [Read more...] about Recipe testers wanted. Bad cooks welcome.
Grandma’s yeast pacakes
My mother has been experimenting with various recipes in an attempt to replicate my Swedish great-grandmother's yeast pancakes. My mother says that her grandmother woke at dawn and made pancakes; if you slept in, you didn't get any. Apparently, the pancakes were worth getting … [Read more...] about Grandma’s yeast pacakes
