Best Way to Fry Eggs
It's easy to fry an egg, but getting it just is a minor skill. If the heat's too high the egg will get rubbery, and the yolk grows hard and…
It's easy to fry an egg, but getting it just is a minor skill. If the heat's too high the egg will get rubbery, and the yolk grows hard and…
It's hard to duck up a turkey, which is why the bird rarely appears beyond Thanksgiving, sandwiches, and pot pies. But a Thankgiving dinner doesn't need to be a showcase for culinary skills,…
A Martini is the quintessential drink to enjoy in a well-appointed hotel bar, but there's this, by writer Kingsley Amis, "The best dry martini known to man is the one…
Rule #1: Do not cook brown rice the same as white rice. If you do, you'll get one of the most unpleasant textures imaginable. Instead, treat brown rice like pasta--boil the grains in…
Chileheads will put green chile into just about anything. A co-worker once put out a plate of chocolate brownies with green chiles (they all got eaten). I'm not that obsessed,…
There's no question that whiskey and ginger ale belong together. Jack and Ginger is a legend, and the Horse's Neck cocktail blends bourbon and ginger ale, with a lemon peel…
Summer brings an abundance of American blueberries, and too much heat to turn on the oven. This pie requires no baking--just a few minutes of cooking--and it's so very easy.…
Most restaurants with famous hamburgers grill the patty on a hot flat metal surface called a plancha. You can get the same results with a cast-iron skillet or comal, heated…
Grilling season in Texas ends on Halloween, and resumes at noon on November 1st, so there's plenty of days to use barbecue sauces. Homemade BBQ sauce can be superb, but it’s a pain…
If you follow the directions on a bag of Nishiki short-grain rice, you'll get an odd mix of gummy and hard rice. That's why many rice-loving families have rice cookers, either simple…