We’re Going To Need A Lot Of Booze
Burt and Natasha Likko prepare for a Thanksgiving feast that promises to be a bit… eccentric.
Sunday Breakfast
What’s for breakfast at your place?
Things you should not buy
Home cooked edition
Bacon Brittle
This is why.
How to Make Real Cranberry Sauce
This is how New Englanders traditionally make cranberry sauce.
Stocking Your Kitchen
Burt Likko reacts badly to a bare pantry.
Stuff I’m Not Paid For
An opportunity to get started sous vide cooking at home for less bucks.
That’s The Rub
Is there a better summertime barbeque than pork back ribs? Learn how to make pork back ribs the Burt Likko way. Or use the comments to explain why your ribs are superior.
Jammin’: An Amateur’s Guide to Making Fruit Preserves
Sweet lessons learned over several seasons of picking and preserving fruit: a primer with pictures.
Linky Friday No. 61
It’s Linky Friday and now you have a way to malinger productivity while reading random links embedded in wry comments that are only funny after you read the articles!
Ingredients Triumph
A lean, inexpensive cut of beef: a London broil. A simple rub: truffled salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, ground savory, and garlic. Sous vide at 124 F for ten hours. Char with torch or on grill immediately before service; slice thin on a diagonal cut. Broccoli dressed with red pepper aioli (red pepper-infused olive oil…
The Cheap-Ass Gourmet Cooking School: Introduction [Updated]
In which we take a peek at an upcoming series that will teach the seven cooking skills you need to know in order to make great, healthy food on a budget.
How To: Make Meatballs
(Please note: if photos of raw meat turn your stomach, this isn’t going to go well for you.) No food makes me happier than spaghetti with red sauce. I recognize in a modern world of the fanciest foods, I am duty bound to like more exciting things, but spaghetti with red sauce reminds me of…
Enchiladas, Blow by Blow
Follow along as Burt Likko teaches himself how to make enchiladas from scratch.
How To Make a Sandwich
Now, it’d be foolish of me to declare that there is a right way to make a sandwich, that I have discovered it, and that you all ought to accept my word as gospel. That would be a bridge too far. However, I am arrogant enough to believe that I’ve discovered some tips for making…
The Cheap-Ass Gourmet – Puttanesca
Note: The Cheap-Ass Gourmet is a cooking series we recently started doing here at the League. Each recipe in the series has three things in common: each is perfect for a person on a budget, each is well-suited for those who say “But I don’t know how to cook!,” and each is delicious. A listing of…
The Cheap-Ass Gourmet – Roast Chicken with Roasted Potatoes and Braised Greens
The last time I did a cooking post, I got a nice email from a reader that was also a student. She complained that even though she wanted to learn how to cook, some of the recipes I posted required either an expensive trip to the store (e.g.: turkey with red & green mole) or…
