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My Family’s Christmas
I grew up on a fair-sized plot of family land out by Lake Travis. My great-grandfather had the foresight to buy up a parcel on the lake, before it was even fully dredged and long before it would be filled with rain. When I was very small, my paternal grandmother gave my parents a portion…
Read MoreScotch Shortbread — Christmas Cookie Recipe
Walkers Scottish Shortbread was always in our Christmas stockings from my grandmother Hornsby. She loved shortbread, especially with a cup of tea (bonus points if it was Yorkshire Gold) but I think I’ve mentioned many times by now, she never cooked or baked much of anything herself. So maybe she wouldn’t even like this shortbread…
Read MoreApple Crisp
It’s apple season! And what better way to please the apple gods than by making an apple crisp?! It’s faster and easier than a pie, plus you can easily make it gluten-free to please all the people. My topping uses a combination of rolled oats and minced nuts for an extra crispy apple crisp, but…
Read MoreDoritos Locos Tacos
Doritos Locos Tacos Recipe Video Watch the video to see how to fry the corn tortillas without any fancy tortilla frying tools. To fill them, use this recipe for crispy beef tacos, or use your favorite. And click over to Jasmin’s site for the Doritos Locos Tacos recipe! I met Jasmin Fine of 1FineCookie a month…
Read MoreLearn To Cook Book
My Learn to Cook book is now available in print! Featuring a casual straightforward style, jokes to keep you on your toes, and over 150 fresh, simple recipes, Learn to Cook will appeal to anyone who loves to eat and/or laugh. You may not think you are a “natural cook”. I maintain that all that means…
Read MoreTop Superbowl Food!
The only part of the Superbowl that I care about is the food and the drinking and sometimes the yelling at the TV. Since every red-blooded American is fairly adept at drinking and yelling at the TV, but maybe not so much at making the food and the snacks, this post will focus on the…
Read MoreHappy New Year! 2012 in Review
Highlights of 2012: Released the print version of Learn to Cook. Increase of over 30,000 YouTube subscribers. Increase of almost 7,000 Facebook likers. Released two new Kindle books: Cavelady Cooking: 50 Fun Recipes for Paleo, Low-Carb and Gluten-Free Diets and Holiday Cookies: 14 New and Delicious Cookie Recipes (including one for Fido)! (Holiday Cookies is…
Read MoreCranberry Bread
This is my great-grandmother’s cranberry bread recipe. She was quite the cook, indeed. I’d had these Meyer lemons sitting in my fruit bowl for a couple of weeks, a gift from a friend’s yard. In years past, I’d have already turned them into limoncello or salted and preserved lemons, but this year — specifically the…
Read MoreLearn to Cook: Oils
This is the third in a series of answer posts to reader-submitted questions. Some of these posts may be incorporated into the revised edition of the Learn to Cook book. If I’ve left out any information, or if anything is unclear, please tell me in the comments section so that I can amend this post. Thank…
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