Caregiving from my kitchen
Mom probably made pot roast – or Grandma did. If they didn’t, a neighbor did… and you’d come home and smell it in the hallway, or when you passed their kitchen window, and wonder what smelled so good… Everyone had some method of cooking a …
Yes, I just wrote about baking loin pork chops… but now I’m braising pork chops with apples! The trick with pork chops is keeping them moist and tender. You absolutely can pan fry them, or cook them with a grill, but while that is fast, …
It’s a busy time of year. Some of us are shopping for gifts, some are working long hours selling those gifts, some are knitting madly in an effort to finish all the sweaters and socks, some are baking our fifth batch of cookies, some are …
No, Grandma wasn’t Swiss. So far as I know, this recipe isn’t, either. Nor is it a steak. It is one of those good old fashioned homey things to do with a relatively cheap cut of beef… a variation of a pot roast, really. I have absolutely …
Here in the Northeast, winter has fully settled in. It’s often in the 40s F during the day – sometimes higher – but it freezes at night, and it has been down to 2 F, even here in the city, and much colder North of …