The Mechanic CooksIf you’re a reader of my blog, you’ll know, it’s in every recipe. It’s a building block of any savory base. Onion, pepper and garlic are my go to mirepoix. But why? What is it about garlic? Does it have medicinal qualities? And, what about the vampire myth? Why is it so pungent raw, yet…
Vegetables are an important part of any healthy diet. The expression I’ve come up with is “There has to be green on every plate”. Well, what if the vegetable I want is not green? What if, my choice of vegetable is, orange, for example. Well orange vegetables are good for you too. So here we…
As is usually the case, I seem to end up with something in the freezer, then have to figure out what to do with it. That’s because I buy stuff on sale, and figure out the cooking details later. In this case, a package of chicken legs. Cooking them in the slow cooker seems like…
For some reason we seem to love dipping our food into a sauce of some kind. Ketchup, cheese, barbecue, there are so many kinds. So, this particular post is for cilantro garlic dipping sauce. It’s the best dipping sauce for my oven Yuca fries The history Ever since we were little kids we loved to…
