Posts by brreynolds

If you'd like a completely amateur point of view, I agree with Phil & KYH on all of their points. If you want to look around for high-end cookware at something like a discount, in addition to the suggestions they made, you might...

Back in the day when all beef was grass-fed, dry cuts would be larded or barded. Several of my old cookbooks discuss this as a prelude to roasting. Any thoughts on that as a way to moisten the meat so the roasts wouldn't have to be...

Your question piqued my curiosity, so I started looking through various Chinese cook books that I have. Very little on the subject, but besides the recipes I posted earlier, I found a couple of recipes for sweets in a set of books by...

Indeed, sweet potatoes do not seem to occupy prominent places in Chinese cookbooks that I have seen. (In fact, potatoes of any kind aren’t prominent.) But I have these recipes, which suggests that in main dish-type cooking, sweet...

My sympathies, DC Sunshine. I came across that recipe, I think, from a website called "Food Down Under" and couldn't figure out for the life of me what "silverbeet" was. Talk about people being divided by a common...

Chard is "silverbeet" in some locales, hence the strange name * Exported from MasterCook * Silverbeet & Ricotta Torte Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ...

As I read Harpua's original question, it appeared that the Harpua family may not be heavily carnivorous at the moment. (The initial post says "I just recently broke out of my vegetarianism.." And "I don't think my mom...

You asked, "Perhaps you've got some interesting and out-of-the-ordinary cranberry recipes." Here's one with an Indian orientation, that goes well with turkey, chicken, or pork. It keeps well. Cranberry-Quince...

We must get different stuff. The pecan meal I get (which I order periodically from a catalog place, and then have to find ways to use) is finer than I would characterize as bread crumbs, even fine bread crumbs, although it is grainier...

1. If you make pie crust, substitute some for some of the flour in a pie crust recipe, with a bit of sugar added. Complements apples pies and blueberry pies particularly. Makes the crust harder to work with (very crumbly), but the...