Your guide to tonight's #HomeCookedFeast!
Your guide to tonight's #HomeCookedFeast!
Learning the hard way How to cook rice seems like a great debate. I always grew up with a rice cooker at home. So, when I first moved out of my parents’ house, while not a starving student, I was without some otherwise basic household …
Jalapeno and cheddar in corn bread muffins, may potentially be the best addition to any southern cooking: welcome to the very first baking recipe I’ve posted up on here. While I don’t really consider corn bread muffins baking, on account of them being one of …
Mexican BBQ Smoked Meat Feast I got some good news last week and, well, what better way to celebrate than by cooking a bunch of Mexican-style meat in a mix of cherry and mesquite smoke! This was a piece of my largest ever, single-day feast …
Meat wrapped in bread – does it get any better? Loving the split batch these days. Here are a couple of ideas for how to make Pigs in a Blanket, totally homecooked and doughs from scratch! As I was looking for some inspiration, so I …
Recipe for quick-pickle Sunomono cucumber salad Sunomono salad for the win! This easy quick-pickle cucumber salad is easy, delicious, and basically impossible to mess up! The key to creating a #homecookedfeast is: many dishes! So, the easiest way to turn your meal into a feast …
Delicious fresh homemade Caesar Salad and it’s basically free Sitting at home, craving something kinda healthy, I opened the fridge to find nothing but a few breakfast items (egg, bacon, potatoes…), lemons/juice, and a fresh, unused romaine lettuce. Hmm, I thought… I also have whiskey! …
If you’re tired of red Mexican Rice, try this. During a gloomy, rainy day, I was inspired to smoke some meat. I didn’t really have a plan, but it has been a couple of months since I did chicken quarters, so that was a must. …
Put those pork balls in my mouth When the night has come, and the land is dark… use the “other white meat” to light up your dinner! Rooting through the fridge and freezer, I found some ground pork. I deliberated long and hard over doing …
Noodles, meat, vegetables – what’s not to like?! I will admit that generally speaking I try to simplify things that aren’t *quite* that simple. This simple Yaki Udon recipe, on the other hand, is very easy. Two sauces, 5 other ingredients (and several optional) and …
No special equipment required Poached eggs used to be something that I reserved for eating at restaurants… until I realized you don’t need special tools, no specialized training, and no hassle. These tips for easiest poached eggs will bring your Sunday brunch staple experience home …
No need to stress over no-knead bread I originally learned of this type of bread recipe from my chef brother and his also chef buddy. We drank beer at the ocean in Vancouver and then ate bread with butter and cheese. I then learned that …
Easy ingredients and foolproof method I’m guilty of making some meals once in a while that are very complicated multi-dish, elaborately-prepped feasts… well, eggs benedict from total scratch is one of those, so you can leave your blender, stand mixer or immersion blender in the …
It’s much easier than you think I had originally researched how puff pastry is made because I jumped on the Christmas Beef Wellington bandwagon this year. I’ve otherwise always avoided doing *ANY* kind of baking, but as it turns out, sometimes it is a necessary …