What makes a salad perfect for a picnic? It must be delicious, simple, portable, keep well without refrigeration, and may be made ahead. Pack a blanket; you’re all set!
Author: gregnelsoncooks
Visit weekly for original and adapted recipes as well as cooking tips to make your kitchen life easier — and more delicious! I’ll include simple, straight forward instructions along with recipes that are truly worth your time making. And, recipes that elevate the familiar and introduce you to the new and unexpected.
I love meals with history and Peposo di Manzo (Beef stewed in red wine with black peppercorns) goes back more than half a millennium — and it is the definition of comfort food.
If you want a lush, moist, fragrant, real carrot cake (not a mamby pamby “spice cake” with no discernible flavor or carrots), this will be your new gold standard.
No doubt if you enjoy cooking or baking you have at one time stumbled across the “No Knead Bread” recipe. Here’s how to make it much easier and more flavorful.
Okra has a reputation. Southern. Gumbo. “Slimy.” Let’s pickle them, instead, and leave the stereotypes behind.
Grandma Lehman wrote on her newsprint recipe, “Great on a cold winter night or for a summer picnic.” How can you argue with that?
The Negroni is a classic Italian cocktail; a bitter apertivo enjoyed before a meal or with appetizers. Then there’s a “wrong” Negroni, which is just right for me!
