Month: June 2022

How To Prep Garlic For Cooking While in Italy, I was taught how to properly prep garlic for cooking. Let me start from the beginning. I recently was in Italy, Tuscany to be more precise, with my family and some friends to celebrate my daughter's 2020 graduation from college. Yes, the Covid thing got in our way in 2020, 2021 and almost in 2022 but we were able to go and had an incredible time. The Italians know how to enjoy their food and wine. I didn't want to come home. At the villa we were staying at, about 1 ½ hours car ride from Rome, our housekeeper/cook prepared three dinners for us, one of them being a cooking class. It was amazing to watch her make her native meals including homemade spinach ricotta raviolis from scratch. I'll be posting about this night in the futur...

On August 6, 2021, Zachariah Porter filmed himself frying an onion. To be more precise, he made a two-minute TikTok video in which he finds a Great American Steakhouse Onion Machine at the Savers in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and proceeds to use a plastic contraption that looks a lot like an apple slicer to make his very own, very deep-fried, whole blossoming onion—inspired by the iconic Bloomin’ Onion appetizer at Outback Steakhouse (and countless other fast food chains and county fairs). In the video, Porter cores a peeled onion, places it into the slicer, and prays for the best as he pushes down on the handles. After a successful cut, he coats the onion in batter—dry, wet, dry—then the camera cuts to the onion, bubbling away in a pot of hot ...

These 5-ingredient slow cooker Italian beef sandwiches have mouthwatering chuck roast on a toasted hoagie roll with melted provolone cheese. Today we’re making some slow cooker Italian beef sandwiches. These hot sandwiches deliver big on flavor with fork-tender chuck roast slow cooked with pepperoncini peppers and Italian seasoning. Serve them dry, wet, or dipped in au jus on crusty rolls with lots of melty cheese and some giardiniera, if that’s your thing. I like to joke that these crockpot Italian beef sandwiches are like Mississippi pot roast and French Dip sandwich had a baby with its tangy broth and lots of sloppy sandwich action from all the au jus dipping. Make them for parties, game day, or just as fun, family meal. It’s an easy 5-minute prep recipe with only 5 ingre...