Welcome back to “From Scratch”. I’m so glad you dropped by to check out what else I’m cooking up in my kitchen. Since we made chicken stock a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to give you yet another thing you could do with it. Last week we made rice and today we’re going to [...]
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No, we’re not going to grow our own rice, silly. We’re just going to cook some. Now this is not your Uncle Ben’s or Minute Rice. We’re going to start with the rice you find in bags near the boxes of quick cook rice. Okay, now get back here. I know you just checked out [...]
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Welcome back to my kitchen! This is the second installment of ‘From Scratch’ where I show you how I make some of my cooking staples. Last Wednesday, I showed you how to roast a chicken. Hopefully, you saved your chicken carcass and drippings because that is the main ingredient to today’s food staple, Chicken Stock. [...]
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Taste of Home Welcome to the first in series of five “From Scratch” recipes. Each of the next five Wednesdays, I’m going to invite you into my kitchen to show how you too can make a few simple things the old fashioned way. Not only will you find these to be simple and economical, but [...]
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There was a time not long ago when women made all their food from scratch. You know, they made it themselves. They made cakes with flour and sugar, not from a box. They baked their own bread and churned their own butter. Okay, the butter is a bit of a stretch, but you get [...]
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