When most people think french fries they think of their favorite fast food place. Or a half step up would be restaurant fries. Now I’ve had both and both are lousy. The typical problem is that they are over-greased, tasteless and old. The old French cooking maxim of getting food immediately from the pan to the [...]

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 Well if you’re having a get together today it represents a fantastic opportunity to introduce the conventional foodies to what real food sans chemicals tastes like. And hey, what better way to start the Summer than a great tasting potato salad.. Here goes..
Shopping List:

3 Pounds of Organic New Potatoes
4 Organic Eggs
Organic Garlic to yield 1 [...]

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 I really have a thing for French Cooking .. as I’ve said before putting this together with organic ingredients is something incredible. Here’s a simple dish that Di & I enjoy. Hope you do too.
Shopping List:

2 lbs of Organic Carrots
1/2 teaspoon of Unrefined Sea Salt
2 cups of Spring Water
3 Tablespoons of Organic Unsalted Butter
1 1/4 Tablespoon Of [...]

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 When I have veggies over anyone’s house there’s usually just a few of them to the side of the dish. Or, as during Thanksgiving, big bowls of them but you spoon some into the side of your dish. Ya know?
 Well I just had a large cereal bowl of veggies and I’m telling the truth that it was absolutely [...]

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 When you cook vegi’s does the end result resemble this weird looking mush or are your vegi’s still firm enough to remain distinct entities? Well, unless you’ve lost your teeth or something don’t cook so much. Especially if you are cooking a big batch for reheating later, .. lay off a bit and leave something [...]

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 This is a side dish that’s good served with a main beef course. There are no specific quantities listed in this recipe since it’s best to add just enough ingredients for your own personal preference.
Shopping List:

Organic Russet Potatoes
Organic Butter
Heavy Whipping Cream
Grated Swiss Cheese

Recipe:

Bake the potatoes until done
Split and remove the flesh. Place in a medium [...]

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 Just about everyone was into organic food back in the day. Well this book is supposedly the best of the best from regular people. Some recipes no doubt handed down through the generations. Here’s a couple that are new not so much for the recipe but in what seems like an unusual combination:

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 I use to be a big believer in prepping and cooking huge batches of vegi’s and storing them to “get it done”. But I’ve been getting away from this for a couple of reasons..First, it’s pretty daunting washing, peeling & cutting so many vegi’s. And even though I’d try to work some music and social aspect into [...]

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 Well, we made a few tweaks to the meat eater’s version of Boston Baked Beans (which used the traditional salt pork) and worked out a vegan version. Actually, we found that very few tweaks were necessary. These involved the amount of molasses used, extra virgin olive oil, additional cooking of the onions (to substitute flavor that [...]

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 Boston Baked Beans is a classic American Recipe. And this is one of the great times of year to put them together..especially if you’re going to be home for several hours due to the weather or football. Anyway, we tried several variations of the classic recipe and have arrived at one that really produces some great beans…

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