Seven Suggestions for the Beginning Brewer

Seven Suggestions for The Beginning Brewer Brewing beer at home is worth it.  Brewing beer at home is a good idea.  It is challenging (though not impossible) for the amateur to achieve desirable results with wine and whiskey and other libations.  But beer is another matter.   Beer is the drink of the people.  Beer […]

Brewing Kombucha — The Beer of Health Foods

Brewing Kombucha The Beer of Health Foods Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe Okay, it’s not actually beer.  But now that we have your attention, let’s discuss a few things: beer and kombucha are both delicious, fermented drinks that have been enjoyed for millennia. Fermentation is one of the oldest known ways […]

Green Chili

Green Chili

Green Chili Mrs. April Jaure Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe I looked at my eldest brother incredulously. “What do you mean you can’t find green chili in Chicago?”  “No one serves it or even knows what it is,” he replied. “Not even in the Mexican restaurants. If I ask about it, […]

Yeasted Waffles

Yeasted Waffles Mr. Tyler Storey Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe Waffles have something of the character of champagne: they both lend a certain celebratory tone to any occasion on which they appear.  And as with champagne, a) they should appear more often, and b) the good stuff is an entirely different […]

Homemade Corn Tortillas

Corn Tortilla Tacos

Homemade Corn Tortillas Mrs. April Jaure​ Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe When my great-grandmother, Maria, was about to make tortillas, she began by grinding her corn. These days, in my own family, we take the shortcut of buying ground masa harina, but we try to avoid the shortcut of buying tortillas. […]

Lumberjack Pancakes

Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe These are not light-and-dainty, brunch-at-grandma’s pancakes.  These are not silver-dollar dandies, waiting to be sprinkled with powdered sugar or drizzled with Mrs. Flutterworth.  No. These are the real stick-to-your-ribs deal.  These are lumberjack pancakes.   These protein-packed flapjacks are suitable for mornings when you’re about to chop […]

Cajun Pork Ribs with Whiskey Bacon Barbecue Glaze

Cajun Ribs

Cajun Pork Ribs With Whiskey Bacon Barbecue Glaze Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe Bacon.  Whiskey.  Ribs.  If the above paragraph has not sold you on this idea, we’re unlikely to be able to do so through further explanations.  This is a fundamental impasse.  Let us part ways as friends. For those of […]

Exceptionally Easy Artisan Bread

Loaf of bread

Mr. Matthew Giambrone Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe One day, while the pandemic was turning the world upside down, I was on a business phone call, which eventually meandered into life and lockdown.  I mentioned that I was enjoying the increased bread baking occurring in our home.  “How in the world […]

Bone Broth

Bone Broth

As I was looking for an activity to entertain the kids during (my much-needed) fall break from homeschooling, my cousin mentioned something …