Blog Hunting

First, you had to know my grandmother. She was a very knowledgeable lady when it came to cooking. At least, she knew the things it took to have a nice meal without spending an arm and a leg. After all, she was born and grew up in the hills of Kentucky where you made everything yourself because if you didn’t, you didn’t have it. And she was raising a family during the great depression when it was so difficult to have anything let alone raise a family. With a husband and 4 kids to feed, she had to be inventive, to say the least.

So, when I ran across a blog that had How To Cook Like Your Grandmother in the title, I just had to take a peek at it. I was impressed. Although I did not see many of my grandmother’s recipes on there I did see many that I am very interested in. Many of the old grandmothers have kept their secrets and gone on. And it’s almost a lost art to bake and cook from scratch anymore. This blog takes us back to the basics and I love it!!!

The first thing I saw yesterday was a recipe for How To Make Chili Sauce For Chili Dogs. Simple thing really but not all of us know how to make that unless it comes from a can. ACK! Now I like to make my own sauces when possible. I hate getting things from a can. This blog is teaching how to do such things. Today, I saw how to cut lettuce correctly. And baked potatoes!!! With TOPPINGS!! Oh yes! The great part is that if you do not know how to do this or, if you are like me, directions can be confusing even if they’re plain as paste, you can still follow the recipe because they have put up pictures to follow along.

This blog is a fantastic find especially for you beginning cooks. Getting back to the basics is something of an art and we are losing that art form. I recommend this blog to anyone who is looking to learn to cook or just to get a new recipe!

Here is a guy who is documenting the changes in his life as he heads toward his goal weight. When I went to his blog, the first thing I noticed was the really good looking dog on the front page called Puppy picture. I really liked that dog. This already seemed like a friendly blog to me. I love pets, cats or dogs. And she is a dog they rescued from a shelter!!! I love it! That impressed me right away.

The second blog post was extremely interesting to me because he was talking about the bad meal of the day. He wanted to document it in the hopes of watching what he eats more diligently. I did agree that his meal choice was too much. The tuna alone….ack! Well, a prejudice here, I don’t like tuna all that much. I would have ordered the prime rib or the chicken with all the trimmings and, yes, a 12 inch sub instead of a 6 inch. I would have fallen into the same trap as he did. And I need to lose weight too.

The blog? John Is Fit, My Journey From Fat To Fit. I must say that I am very impressed with his candor on the subject. So many people want to put the weight issue under wraps. He listed the reasons why he fell for the big sub. So, his bad meal of the day was a tuna sub, big one. One more thing. If you like contests, he has one. He has a contest to give away a new bike.

I really liked this blog. I recommend it to anyone who is struggling to lose weight.

I am actually not as into coffee as my husband is so this post is going to be more in the area of reviewing the blog and the post on it. Tinfoil Chef is a relatively new blog that is showing “how to” posts for those of us who cannot get a clue about cooking or mixing things together. In the most recent post, Chocolate Mint Coffee, which sounds delicious no matter who you are, he gives a very simple recipe for putting coffee and chocolate and mint together in a most pleasing way.

It is obvious, however, that he is not limited to coffee in the things posted on this blog. He tells us in the title that he is giving us the 411 about cooking and food. I, for one, could use it. A Basic Roux help is awesome since lots of people have no idea what a roux is. For first time cooking, this is a great way to get started.

Beyond those tips, the blog has ideas on how to use a knife safely, gives tips on the latest appliances for the kitchen, tips on eating out, food prep and storage and so much more that you will simply have to visit Tinfoil Chef to get a better idea of what is there.

And by the way, yes, I am shamelessly promoting my husband’s blog!!! So sue me. Ah well, don’t actually SUE me, just enjoy the blog!

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