This Homemade Salami recipe appears on page 183 of Michael Ruhlman’s amazing adventure, Charcuterie. It is his Tuscan Salami recipe that I transcribed for the amount of pork I had. I bought 2 pounds of pork shoulder and told the butcher it was for sausage. I agreed with his suggestion…
Coppa is the topmost muscle in a pork shoulder. I’m curing one from the last butt that I bought for a pulled pork BBQ. Cured and dried it becomes a salumi. Salami? No, salumi. Salami is made from ground meat. Salumi is made from the whole muscle. Think of the…
Blender Pesto Here’s a quick and easy recipe for basil pesto to use some of that basil that’s coming up in the herb garden by now. Hmm… Maybe I live further south than you do, but I’ve got basil! Put all these ingredients in your blender and give it a…
Italian Marinated Olives are an easy snack that just takes a little planning a couple of days before you want to serve them. There are always some of these lurking in the fridge at home. It’s simply olives in oil and vinegar with some aromatics. Mix up a big batch…
Halushki is a popular Polish dish consisting of cabbage, potatoes and egg noodles. It’s the big pan of white stuff that shows up at potluck suppers in Northeastern PA and always gets devoured. Yes, it’s all white stuff in a big pan, but it’s cheap to make!
This widely known Cornell bread recipe is high in protein with its nutritionally enriched combination of flours. It was created in the 1940s to act as a staple in the low-cost diets of the days of war rationing. The nutritional merits are important, but what fueled the popularity of the…
My old supervisor, Jeremy, asked if I make yogurt. He’d been wanting to try it and it’s really pretty easy. Here’s a simple recipe for Homemade Yogurt. The trick is to find a good culture. I looked at the supermarket for yogurt with live cultures and actually found quite a…
How about an easy / delicious recipe that you can whip up in less than half an hour? This is a shrimp stir-fry recipe from the “America’s Test Kitchen” show on PBS. MARINADE: 1 pound shrimp, peeled 1 tablespoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 clove Garlic, sliced SAUCE: 3…