Why buy potato chips when you can bake them? Potato chips, as you can see from the ingredients list on the bag, are just potatoes sliced thin and fried with oil. You can do that at home, and have much better potato chips for a small fraction of the cost of store-bought ones. How to …
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Thyme or rosemary bread
Riding around in the Abruzzo hills of Italy I spent one fall with my friend Kay riding motorcycles up in the hills around Rome – well, we rode on the back of the motorcycles like girls, and our Italian friends Paolo and Alberto drove the motorcycles. That’s a lot easier! When we stopped for lunch, …
Pork rillette
Impressive, delicious, and easy Pork rillette’s one of those luxury treats you pay a zillion dollars for at the store, but it’s ridiculously easy to make at home, and it keeps for a week in the fridge. And much cheaper to make at home too. How to make pork rillette: Set the oven to 275 …
Vegetable soup
French cafeteria food As a child in France, I used to get this soup at least once a week in the school cantine as the appetizer for winter lunches. I loved it, and so did everyone else. How much better than just plain carrot sticks or boiled carrots! (For another yummy carrot recipe, try candied carrots.) How to …