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Sausages make a quick, easy, delicious and affordable weekday dish. Pick all you need up on your way home from work, toss it all in one pan, roast, and dinner is ready. You'll have time to walk the dog, take a shower and set the table all in the time it takes to cook. If you are keeping track, total cost $18.60.
Recipe: Sweet and Savory Sausage
In a recent New York Times Magazine article, Michael Pollan says “It’s hard to imagine ever reforming the American way of eating or, for that matter, the American food system unless millions of Americans — women and men — are willing to make cooking a part of daily life. The path to a diet of fresher, unprocessed food, not to mention to a revitalized local-food economy, passes straight through the home kitchen.” You may say “But I am not that good of a cook.” Cooking more will make you a better cook.
With so much in-season and at market these days, all you need to do to cook a good meal is to keep it simple and eat from the full spectrum. A smart idea from the Greeks, here is a weekday supper dish that you will turn to again and again. The chicken cooks in a golden blanket of yogurt, that sets to a soft custard. Serve with a plate of farm fresh tomatoes and a salad of greens.
Recipe: Greek Chicken Baked in Yogurt
Last week in a pinch to finish this recipe, the only garlic available from a local Whole Foods store was from Argentina. There was nothing locally-grown or even from the US - and the garlic was dry, papery and had a bitter flavor. Not the quality you would expect when paying premium price. Fresh garlic (in-season during the summer months) is moist, fleshy and tinged with green. It’s a kitchen staple that we often take for granted and the magic ingredient for so many meals.
Recipe: Crazy Water: A One-Pot Fish Dish
Tip: There are two rules for garlic: never burn it and if the head is old, crumbly or sprouting green shoots, throw it out, because it's bitterness could ruin your dish.
Sausages make a quick, easy, delicious and affordable weekday dish. Pick all you need up on your way home from work, toss it all in one pan, roast, and dinner is ready. You'll have time to walk the dog, take a shower and set the table all in the time it takes to cook. If you are keeping track, total cost $18.60.
Last week in a pinch to finish this recipe, the only garlic available from a local Whole Foods store was from Argentina. There was nothing locally-grown or even from the US - and the garlic was dry, papery and had a bitter flavor. Not the quality you would expect when paying premium price. Fresh garlic (in-season during the summer months) is moist, fleshy and tinged with green. It’s a kitchen staple that we often take for granted and the magic ingredient for so many meals. 