Easy and Fast Baked Chicken. That’s just crazy talk! Well, it would be if you did it the old-fashioned way, prepping the bird, preheating the oven, baking for a few hours and pulling out a chicken with dry breast meat, rubbery, yellow skin and under-cooked thighs. And then if you put it back in, you dry out all the breast meat. Sigh. Who needs it? …
Main Dishes
How to Cook Beans
How to Cook Beans: Navy Bean Soup, Easy Baked Beans and Black Bean Casserole, with clear instructions on how to prepare from dried beans. You and many others have decided to stock up on beans. I know this, because my store is completely bone-dry of any variety of bean! Understandable, and thankfully, I already had several bags on hand. They last for a long time …
Oven Baked Beef Stew
Try this oven baked beef stew. It cooks in just two hours (as opposed to EIGHT in the crock pot.) There’s no messy browning of the meat. And it makes it’s own gravy without mixes or salty bouillon cubes.
St. Patrick’s Day Recipes
All of my best Irish recipes together in one convenient post for you to try out and share with your friends. Soda Bread, Stew, Brisket and Cake!
Oven Roast Beef – The Slow-Roast Method
The biggest reason for failing at an oven roast beef is being impatient. We tend to equate “It takes so much work!” with “It takes so much time!” And the fact is, the two are not the same at all. Yes, a tender, juicy roast beef takes a lot of time, but it does not take a lot of work. Plan ahead one day for …
Kansas Bierocks with Three Variations
Kansas Bierocks with Three Variations: If you’ve ever bought the commercial-grade Hot Pockets brand snacks, you’ve had to wonder what was in them, right? I mean – how can you put something in the microwave and never, ever know if it’s going to be a pizza-cicle on the inside or molten cheese-lava? It’s positively diabolical! And the ingredients? I’ve seen fewer chemicals in my students’ …