using a thai hand julienner for prep? great by me. pink handheld immersion blender in your bag of tricks? you go girl. someone else learned from grandma and comes in with a cast-iron skillet and a wooden spoon? that’s cool...

aged from a good butcher— Whole Foods, McKinnon’s, and Lambert’s, primarily. Preheat oven to 350F. Sear the steaks on both sides in a preheated, oven proof cast iron or stainless steel skillet. Put the steak in...

Excellent thread!!! Browned butter....melt a 1/2-1 stick of unsalted butter with a handfull of dried plain bread crumbs in a skillet. Watch closely as it will brown quickly. When a deep brown (I often have to turn off heat before

, it was nothing in the disaster dept like setting the kitchen on fire when I tried to make my first BLT. Black iron skillet, stick of butter (everything tastes better with butter, right?) half pound of bacon over high heat with...

As long as you are on 85, I’d keep driving to Lexington, where you can get the real thing smoked over wood. I may be mistaken, but I think Gary’s cooks using, gasp, electricity.

OMG!! My Mom did this too...and I would eat them. Wow this brought back alot of memories. Did she do hers on an electric counter-top skillet?

to sit in the main (ground floor) dining room; the basement dining rooms are really not terribly nice. I think my favorite everyday place in London so far is must be the Electric Brasserie, which is very much on the lines of...

grain bread soaked in a mixture of egg whites & low-fat buttermilk – sauté in a nonstick skillet, top with a dash of cinnamon, a tablespoon of toasted almonds or walnuts, and a drizzle of pure maple syrup or agave nectar....

no kneading is equivalent to kneading if you let it hang out longer (a shorter version of this, anywhere from 15-30 minutes is called an autolyse in bread terms — originally invented to conserve electricity!). if you do the...

very good. Just none call for a KitchenAid or a Cuisinart. Life was strenuous back then, which is probably why they could sock away all that food. They burned calories like a freight train burns coal! I can still remember a couple...

Last month during the hurricane I ate more fluffer nutter sandwiches than I want to remember. (Needed a food that would last for a while in case the electricity went out.) My “chain food” guilty pleasures are french...

a pretty basic mild Italian sausage. All of the other indgredients were the same as the recipe requirements. I used my electric skillet so the sauce and the sausages ended up having a carmelized aspect to it, not very saucey....

I’ve raved about her biscuit recipe on other threads. Tonight tried the CORNBREAD recipe, page 274. This was super-simple, and very good. I switched the amounts of cornmeal and flour, preheated a cast-iron skillet with a...

demonstration by glopping bacon fat into an electric skillet. I cringe a little when I think about it now.

was really little, I made “cheesy broccoli eggs” all the time – scrambled eggs w/finely chopped broccoli (I steamed it in the micro and then chopped it in the mini cuisinart) and your favorite cheese – all...