The Mechanic CooksI’m a huge fan of baking. Not so much cakes and cookies, but baking everything else. When you put something in the oven for a while, it just comes out better. Whatever you’re cooking has crispy bits, and in the case of chicken, crackly cooked skin. Bottom line, its good, and not too labor intensive.…
I’ve mentioned before, I’m a fan of cooking in the oven. That doesn’t just apply to meat. It applies to vegetables too. A little oil, salt, pepper, stick them in a nice hot oven. What comes out is sweet, toasty, tasty and, good for you too. Vegetables are good for you, yet they are the…
I’m a fan of southern food, slow barbecue and slow cooker pulled pork It just so happens that there’s a side that goes with all those, and it’s good for you, so this post is about southern style collard greens, oh, and they are good. The name collard comes from the medieval word Colewart, which…
The lowly spud, an absolute must have for some meals, versatile as you’ll get, and can be a meal in itself. So today we’ll cook double baked potato with ham and feta, and it is good! Serve as a side, or, if the potato is big enough, as a meal. I like to pair it…
Cauliflower can be a little bland, but does have a distinctive flavor, it works well in a dish as an ingredient. Try Red Lentil Cauliflower Curry, it’s good. However as a side, it needs a little coaxing. So for that we’ll use the oven and some cheese and make baked cauliflower with Parmesan, it’s delicious…
Brussels sprouts are delicious and healthy. They make a wonderful side dish, especially when baked. As with a lot of greens, they have a bad rap, so we’ll take these “little brains” as some call them, and bake them. Baked Brussels sprouts with bacon is surely the winning dish to get them to eat their…
It’s that time of year again, a time to fill the house with beautiful aromas. Nothing beats a slow cooker and the wonderful smells it can create. It really makes a house a home. If you’re reading this in July, it’s not that time of year, we’re talking fall here and slow cooker beef stew…
It’s that time of year. If you’re reading this in July, the time of year I’m talking about is winter. A time for slow cooker dinners. Makes the whole house smell so good. Nothing can beat going out and coming home to those wonderful aromas of something good in the slow cooker. I think chicken…
When it come to stuffing chicken breast, there’s a couple of way to go. The popular route is to take a whole breast, make a pocket and fill it with a stuffing. Don’t get me wrong, it’s delicious. It’s not the taste though. It’s the ratio of meat to stuffing that bothers me (yeah, I…
So you want to eat a little healthier? You want to eat more greens. But you want something good on the plate, something to tickle the taste buds. Give everyone a reason to come to the table. Well, this particular offering is reason enough, it’s delicious and healthy too. So here we have feta spinach…
