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Grilled Cheese – A Basic Cooking Lesson from Home-Ec 101

January 14, 2016 by Heather Solos 1 Comment

Whether you're looking to teach your child the very basics of cooking or you barely know your way around a kitchen and are looking to change that, learning how to make a grilled cheese sandwich is an excellent first step.

Disclaimer: If you’re teaching  a young child to cook, these are intended to be a good starting point, but children will still need supervision as knives are sharp and stoves are hot. Capiche? Heather says: ♫ Let’s start at the very beginning A very good place to start When you read you begin with A-B-C…

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Filed Under: Cook It, Main Dishes, Recipe, Tutorial, Vegetarian Tagged With: Beginner, cheap, Cook It, Cooking Lesson

Apple Cider Pancakes

September 3, 2015 by Heather Solos 18 Comments

Heather says: Whenever birthday season rolls around, we like to give the birthday child a few treats of their own choosing, within reason. I do believe my middle child is a budding foodie. The days leading up to his birthday he talked about how he wanted to have apple pancakes for breakfast, something we have…

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Filed Under: All, Cook It, Main Dishes, Recipe, Vegetarian Tagged With: Apples, Autumn, Fearless Fridays, Recipe, Seasonal Produce

Stupidly Simple: Radish Slaw Recipe

May 21, 2015 by Heather Solos 2 Comments

Heather says: I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I was finally able to take advantage of our local CSA. If you’ve never participated in a CSA, it’s a program where you pay a farm a predetermined amount at the beginning of the growing season. The farm then divides up the produce harvested between…

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Filed Under: Best Of, Cook It, Vegetarian Tagged With: Condiment, CSA, Recipe, Seasonal Recipe, side dish, Stupidly Simple, Tex Mex, vegetable

Zucchini Parmesan Crisps, Regular and Gluten-Free

July 15, 2014 by Heather Solos Leave a Comment

zucchini crisps

Heather says Did you think oven fried goodness was out of reach just because you have to go gluten-free? Here’s a simple, magic substitution for you… swap crushed Rice Chex for Panko crumbs and you’re set. No other changes, no mixing a bazillion different flours or buying special bread to make your own crumbs. Take…

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Filed Under: Cook It, Vegetarian Tagged With: Gluten Free, Snacks, Vegetables

Easy Grilled Foil Vegetable Packets

June 5, 2014 by Heather Solos 11 Comments

Easy Grilled Foil Vegetable Packets

Heather says: Get ready to grill.  Today we’re using foil packets to to turn a pile of vegetables into a fantastic summer side dish. Actually if you look at the portions, the grilled vegetables were the main feature. I would like, at least while we’re rolling in produce, for you to consider treating vegetables as…

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Filed Under: Best Of, Cook It, Vegetarian Tagged With: Gluten Free, Grill it!, Seasonal Produce

Red, White, and Blue Potato Salad

July 18, 2013 by Michele Newell 4 Comments

Red, white, and blue, potato salad

Michele says: If you had to summarize summer in three words, which words would you choose?  Swimming, picnics, and ice cream?  Vacations, thunderstorms, and fireflies?  Bikinis, bonfires, and s’mores?  How about red, white, and blue? To me, summer never fails to feel like one big patriotic party, and the colors of the season seem to…

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Filed Under: Cook It, Recipe, Vegetarian Tagged With: Recipe, Vegetables

Picnic Perfect: Potato Salad

June 24, 2013 by Heather Solos 12 Comments

Dear Home Ec 101: My neighborhood will soon be throwing their annual blockparty. I don’t want anyone to know that I can’t cook for beans. Do you have a recipe for me? Please don’t tell me just to go to the deli and put it in a new bowl. I want to try, but I’m…

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Filed Under: All, Cook It, Recipe, Vegetarian Tagged With: cheap, Meatless, potato salad, Potatoes, Reader Questions, Recipe, Side Items, Vegetables

Basic Scone Recipe

June 12, 2013 by Michele Newell Leave a Comment

Michele says: During my freshman year of college, I was required to live in a dorm.  It was the most miserable experience of my life, not because I had a terrible roommate, but because I couldn’t cook or bake without having to use the communal kitchen (which meant I had to share with whomever walked…

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Filed Under: Cook It, Quick Bread, Recipe, Vegetarian Tagged With: Breads, Recipe

How To Make Hasselback Potatoes

January 28, 2012 by Heather Solos 9 Comments

These Hasselback potatoes are tasty and look fancy enough for guests.

Heather says: I don’t remember when I first stumbled upon the idea of Hasselback Potatoes, I do believe I was wandering around Pinterest. The idea may have come from from PurpleFoodie’s Hasselback Potato Post, as the images look familiar, but I can’t be sure. Variations on this recipe / technique can also be found on most major recipe…

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Filed Under: Best Of, Cook It, Recipe, Vegetarian Tagged With: Gluten Free, Potatoes

Caprese or Sliced Tomato & Mozzarella Salad

January 21, 2012 by Heather Solos 17 Comments

Heather says: Sometimes recipes are so basic, so simple, so easy, that I forget to include them here on Home Ec 101. Insalata caprese is one such recipe. This recipe shines in the summer, when tomatoes are at their peak, but sometimes it just beckons in the depth of winter. If it’s not tomato season,…

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Filed Under: Cook It, Recipe, Vegetarian Tagged With: Salad, Vegetables

Cheddar Cauliflower Bites

September 14, 2011 by Heather Solos 19 Comments

How To Make Cheddar Cauliflower Bites

Heather says: I’m not sure whether to file these cheddar broccoli  cauliflower bites under, breakfast, side dish, or healthy snack. The truth of the matter is everyone in the house attacked cauliflower for what may be the first time in their lives. In the future, I think I will tweak this recipe (and update with…

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Filed Under: Cook It, Recipe, Vegetarian Tagged With: Fall, Gluten Free, Seasonal Produce, Summer, Vegetables

Last-Minute Bean and Corn Salad Recipe

July 22, 2011 by Bobbie 5 Comments

Bobbie says: Have you ever been almost, but not quite, ready to serve dinner when a giant light bulb goes on over your head (so brightly that everyone in the room gets an instant tan) because you suddenly realized that all you actually have prepared for dinner is grilled chicken and potatoes? Or burgers on…

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Filed Under: Beans / Legumes, Cook It, Recipe, Vegetarian Tagged With: Beans and Legumes, Recipe, Salad, side dish, Vegan, Vegetables

Hearty Potato, Egg and Green Bean Salad Recipe

May 4, 2011 by Bobbie 5 Comments

Hearty Potato Egg and Green Bean Salad - Three easy ingredients

Bobbie says: Hearty Potato, Egg and Green Bean Salad is a great spring recipe. These three components  get cooked in the same pot and a versatile dressing that can be made ahead of time means you can have a very easy but hearty main dish salad on the table in just over half an hour….

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Filed Under: All, Cook It, Main Dishes, Recipe, Vegetarian Tagged With: Gluten Free, Meatless, Potatoes, Recipe, Salad, salads, Vegetables

Broccoli Rabe with Garlic and Ginger

April 5, 2011 by Heather Solos 2 Comments

Heather says: Broccoli rabe, also called rappini or broccoli raab -pronounce it rob, not rab-  is a new-to-me vegetable. I know it’s sort of common and in some areas it has been available for years. There’s no reason that I haven’t tried it. Broccoli rabe just never jumped into my cart saying, “I’m delicious,” the…

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Filed Under: All, Cook It, Recipe, Vegetarian Tagged With: Meatless, Side Items

Pressure Cooking for Vegetarians

March 24, 2011 by Heather Solos 13 Comments

Dear Home Ec 101, I am coverting to Lacto-ovo vegetarian diet and several books suggest using a pressure cooker as a good tool in the kitchen. My questions are: 1. Are the European models better than the American ones? That was suggested in one book. 2. Are they safe now? My grandmother never had an accident with…

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Filed Under: Cook It, Vegetarian Tagged With: Pressure Cooking, Reader Questions

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