Dec
31
Pizza can be done is so many ways. There is the standard pizza pie you order from the countless pizza joins across every American town. You can turn bagels into pizza (see my post on when I did this). You can eat pizza as a pocket pie or calzone. Now I am bringing you yet …
Dec
29
One of my favorite soups growing up was Campbell’s Bean with Bacon soup. So naturally when I began learning how to cook more things for myself, relying less on prepared food, this is one thing I wanted to replicate. It took a couple times to get it right but I believe this to be at …
Dec
10
This is part of a series of posts on tools that have made my life in the kitchen easier and more productive. Cast Iron cookware isn’t anything new, it’s been around for hundreds of years. The Lodge company, makes of cast iron cookware, have aren’t new either. They have been around since 1896, making them …
Dec
01
Last time I bought an entire eye of round roast from the supermarket, I divided it into 1 roast (see my post on cooking an eye of round roast), and 6 steaks. I thought that I would need all six steak to perfect my recipe, but the first time was the charm. The problem I …
Oct
12
This is part of a series of posts on tools that have made my life in the kitchen easier and more productive. This past Christmas, I received my very first piece of cast iron cookware- a dutch oven. I have found this to be a wonderful device in my kitchen. First off, since it gets hot …
Welcome to my blog! My name is Eric. I live in Saline, Michigan with my wife (Donna) and two daughters, Hannah (4) and Autumn (1). I started this blog in October 2009 to share my culinary experiences from making my own food from scratch to what I find at farmer's markets and grocery stores.
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