A blog about how real families cook and eat.
Well, I guess I haven’t done this for a while. Â I read the Frugal Dad blog, sometimes, for its financial insights. Â I learned a few things about beef from this post, for instance, grass-fed beef has the same fat content as boneless, skinless chicken breast.…
My wife was grocery shopping last weekend and grabbed a package of our usual mushrooms, the brown crimini ones. A passerby said she should really get the white button mushrooms because they’ve got better cancer prevention properties. My first reaction to this story was “Horse…
Plantains are those fascinating banana-looking fruit surrounded by a bit of mysticism. Are they really fruit or vegetable? Do we eat them raw or cooked? When should we eat them? They start out bright green and hard, move toward beautiful yellow, slowly get black specs…