Food is Cheap

Whole chickens can be found dirt-cheap at any respectable market, but it takes some elbow grease to chop it up into manageable parts. However, you’re left with a carcass that is perfect for making chicken stock with, and you save tons of cash as well.
I’d planned to do a walk-through on cutting up a whole […]

 
I lamented the under-use of the crock pot in the every day kitchen a few days ago, and for good reason — the crock pot, or slow cooker, is a versatile tool that can be used to create a varied range of dishes easily.
One of my favorite crock pot recipes is Beef Stew.

Cheap Healthy Good has started a series of apple recipes: All-Night Apple Butter and Chunky Apple Sauce are the first two.
Serious Eats has posted a great article about the bacteria-killing prowess (or lack thereof) of microwaves.
There’s two great-looking recipes at Two Yolks: Tomato and Roasted Garlic Soup and Whoopie Pies, which look like giant Oreos.
Delicious: Days makes […]

I’ve seen many slow cookers sittin’ on top of refrigerators, a fine layer of dust collected on the lids — many people receive this magical household device with no idea how to use it. This is a sad state of affairs, to me, because slow cookers are indispensable tools.
I often cook chicken, beef, or hamburger stew in […]

My lovely wife at Kailua Beach, Hawai’i.
Taken 3/03/2007.

When I’m not spending quality time with my wife, lazing around at the beach, or cooking, I immerse myself in what is now called cultural studies — I love literature and poetry (my personal library of books has outgrown my bookcases and overflown onto the floor), I have an encyclopedic knowledge of television and music from […]

Roux, quite simply, is fat + starch. In making beef stew, after you brown the beef, the fat that’s collected in the bottom of the pan should be used as a roux base — add some flour, cook, and add to your stew, for a very flavorful thickener. It also has a lot of other […]