Light Oat Bread
This is one of my favorite ‘white’ loaf breads, it has a wonderful taste and texture. Don’t read oats and think lumps because they just disappear in the finished loaf and all that remains is a hint of flavor. And to top it off this bread has a beautiful crust and a sturdy rise [...]
The Warfare Scramble
The Warfare Scramble is sort of a breakfast stir fry of potatoes, eggs, bacon or sausage, and cheese. Or swap the meat for your favorite veggies. Or add everything you can think of. Good stuff.
Note: The method we use here for our potatoes is an easy and healthy way to fry potatoes ANYTIME.
The Warfare Scramble
Serves [...]
Outstanding Pizza From Scratch In 50 minutes
One obstacle you may encounter when scratch cooking for other folks is the time quality food prep can and often takes. Consider that in a mind powered by a starving stomach you and your raw ingredients, sharp cutlery and expensive cookware are up against a 1500 watt microwave and a box of frozen Stouffer’s (NO [...]
Recipe: White Garlic Sauce Pizza
This pizza is referenced (with picture) in the article ‘Outstanding Pizza From Scratch In 50 minutes’
The motivation for this pie was to see how quickly I could prepare a pizza from scratch. What started as an Iron Chef sort of effort ended up as an excellent pizza I’ll make again and again.
Our Orange Rum Cake Does Not Suck
When I was a kid growing up in Florida one of our holiday favorites was Orange Rum cake. Its a little different than the typical hodgepodge of cakes and besides it was just fun to make. I liked helping to shave the orange and lemon zest (peel) and there was something cool even then about [...]
Italian Herb Bread
When I decided I was in an Italian mood the first thing I did was to select a bread because bread usually takes the longest amount of time.
I wanted to try something new so I googled around and settled on this Italian Herb Bread I found on AllRecipes originally from Ann Barr.
In spite of the [...]
A Most Excellent Lasagna
The nice thing about Lasagna other than its lure to commit deadly sin #2 is that its very easy to make an outstanding dish of it, you just need a good recipe.
Here’s why.
Generally speaking a successful effort in the kitchen requires 3 things-
A good plan (recipe, imagination, etc)
Using the best ingredients you can reasonably/affordably obtain
Proper [...]
The Year Is 1932. The Recipe Is Toast.
Another hobby of mine is collecting ephemera which if you don’t know is collectable paper. Letters, papers, bookmarks, postcards, recipe cards, advertising pieces, stock certificates, basically all kinds of paper. Some people say it includes pamphlets and magazines. Some say not.
What does this have to do with cooking or even Kitchen Warfare you ask? Well [...]
Bun There Done That: Yeast Rolls In 80 Minutes
For the last few months we’ve been completely boycotting store bought breads.
Initially it was more of a challenge (game) just to see if we could do it but it didn’t take long for us to become pretty accustomed to high quality (most of the time!) baked goods. I don’t mean this in the sense [...]
A Dessert So Good They’ll Lick The Plate And Beg For More
I’ve been cooking for over 30 years but I’ve never gotten as an enthusiastic response as I did to this week’s dessert effort - Dog biscuits. If you’re looking for validation of your cooking prowess, I doubt you can find a better audience to howl your praises.
Last week after unpacking the new KitchenAid Stand Mixer [...]
