Caregiving from my kitchen
Cook extra meat, I blithely say. Brown ground meat, fill a slow cooker with chicken, cook a whole pork shoulder (with seasoning!) and then freeze the meat to use later. Fill your freezer with zip bags and little plastic containers of cooked meat, so you …
The Word of the Week seems to have been Meat. The local stores had excellent sales on large cuts of meat you might want for your holiday table – ham, of course, but also pork shoulder. (This has been a largely Puerto Rican neighborhood all …
It is the week after Easter. Leftover ham is not nearly as ubiquitous this week as leftover turkey is the last week of November… First of all, of course, many people simply don’t celebrate Easter at all. And for those of us who do, while …
Well, it isn’t the prettiest meatloaf I’ve ever made – but it just might be the tastiest… Most people who need to stop eating gluten panic a bit at first about bread, baked goods such as cake and cookies, and prepared foods. In many ways, …
Orange Spiced Pork Chops is another recipe I learned from my mother when I started to cook, but have varied enough over the years that it is now a new recipe. The original was sweeter, and a little blander, and she used a jar of …