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Homemade French Onion Soup
The stringy provolone cheese and soup soaked croutons are a couple of reasons I like French Onion Soup. Those soups at restaurants are awfully salty, so we decided to make our own. I use 50% reduced sodium beef broth and only add about 1/2 teaspoon of salt to the soup. The result is a tasty [...]
Baked Artichoke Dip
It’s the time of the year for warm comfort food, and one of my favorites is an artichoke dip that my wife makes. It is relatively simple and is great when having some friends or family over for the holidays.
You need to get one 14 ounce can of artichoke hearts. You need to drain and [...]
Campari Tomatoes
A homegrown tomato is one of the tastiest things that I could ever hope to eat. However, my tomato plants only produce for a few months in the summer. The rest of the year you have to rely on store bought tomatoes. Those tomatoes are usually one of the un-tastiest things I could eat. So [...]
Fresh Cranberry Sauce
A post Thanksgiving sandwich that I like includes fresh cranberry sauce right on top of some sliced turkey between two slices of bread. That might seem a little strange, but not if the cranberry sauce is homemade and NOT from a can.
After I mentioned this morning that I was making cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving, my coworker, Shirley, joked [...]
Ribeye Chili
After tasting 15 samples of chili, I was full. My favorite tasting chili, however, which came in second overall at the Hillsborough Chili Cook-off, had nice smoky bite to it. After the cook-off, I talked to the chef who told me he uses rib eye steak. When I cook chili, I have discovered that using [...]
Cheddar Cheese Soup With…
Soup is so good on cool rainy days, like we have been experiencing. So that is exactly what I made yesterday during our 3″ deluge of rain. I found a recipe at King Arthur Flour’s website. This is a warm and hearty soup that I did lighten up a bit.
Melt 1 TBL. of butter in [...]
Frying Some Flounder
As the leaves fall and the days turn cooler, summer at the beach seems like a million miles away. To bring back beach memories, we decided to get some fresh flounder and fry it, just like they do in Calabash.
I checked out all the fish breading products at the grocery store and really didn’t want [...]
A College Chef At UNC’s Alpha Chi Omega
Brunches can be dangerous, but I trained for it. I hadn’t eaten since the night before. So by 1pm I was ready to eat. This past Saturday, the University Of North Carolina had their homecoming for the football game against Duke. My wife belonged to Alpha Chi Omega, so they had a Homecoming Brunch. I [...]
Trying To Make Italian Bread
After visiting the State Fair and sampling some great Italian bread, I was inspired to make the crusty and airy loaf at home. I have been making bread and pizza dough for many years, but I have never been able to make the artisan type bread with those big holes. So I did some studying [...]
Artisan Bakery at the NC State Fair
While it was almost impossible to miss all the fried food at the NC State Fair; you might miss the bakery that was there this year under a white tent.
On our annual trip to this year’s fair, as my family chowed down on all things fried; I noticed a bakery back by the Village of [...]
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