You have cooked something delicious and extremely fatty, like bacon, pork belly, or duck. You’ve managed not to burn anything, so there is liquid gold sitting at the bottom of the pan or roasting dish. What do you do? Pour it down the sink and destroy your plumbing? Soak it up with paper towels and…
Category: basics
Basic Bone Broth
A basic bone broth is the best thing to have in the freezer, and it’s basically free if you do it right and are willing to put a little effort into your everyday cooking. The key is saving all your scraps and bones in the freezer in large (30cm x 30cm) freezer bags until you…
Bean Salad. WITH BARLEY!
I love barley but I never make it. Heck, unless it’s in a soup, I never eat it. Today I decided to go into my first foray into making barley as a major part of a meal. Enter: Bean and Barley Salad This salad is crunchy, chewy (in a good way) and filling. It’s also…
Roast Chicken – The meal that spawns more meals
Roast chicken is the perfect Sunday dinner. Throw together some veggies on the side, like steamed carrots or peas, a grain, like brown rice, and you’re DONE. After dinner, you can sit in front of the tv and shred the meat off by hand and put in a container for lunches for the week. Here…
Basic fried rice
Fried rice is another one of those recipes that use up all the leftovers in the fridge. All you really need is rice, soy sauce, veggies, protein and oil. You can have an endless amount of combinations. I have yet to make a combination that tastes bad, but that doesn’t mean this recipe is infallible….
Easy pasta salad
My plan today was to buy sushi for lunch. This morning, my cheapness overcame my laziness and I made one of the laziest, but still satisfying, meals I had in my arsenal. Working Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: roughly 10 minutes Ingredients Pasta, cooked as per directions on package (also a great recipe for leftover…
Basic soup stock
Do you ever find yourself at home in the evenings with nothing to do? No? Well turn off the TV, then. NOW you have spare time, don’t you? Why not spend that time doing something really good for yourself, like making stock? (Don’t worry about missing the latest episode of House. Here’s the plot: Someone…