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  • Homemade Dill Dressing

    This homemade dressing is great on salad, but also works well to marinate chicken thighs or drummies. Featuring a creamy texture, bright and vibrant citrus, and the savory notes of dill and chives, this dressing is a humdinger. Best of all, it takes just minutes to prepare; you’ll spend more time gathering the ingredients than…

  • Tonight’s Dinner: Zuppa Toscana

    Tonight for dinner, we made Zuppa Toscana, a soup featuring spicy Italian sausage, bacon, yellow potatoes, and kale. This soup is hot, spicy, and savory, and is perfect for cool winter nights. To begin, assemble your ingredients. Measure out the broth, chop your veggies, cut up your meat, gather your seasonings. If you want to…

  • The Menu: Week of February 8, 2026

    This week’s menu features an entree soup, entree salad, and meatless pasta dish. Tonight – Super Bowl Sunday – we’ll be out at a social event so there’s no need to cook a structured meal. Monday will feature our soup of the week, our version of Zuppa Toscana. Tuesday is an entree Chef Salad with…

  • Weekend Bake: Cheesecake

    Weekend Bake: Cheesecake

    Follow along as I make a cheesecake from scratch.

  • Homemade Tomato Sauce

    There’s something special about homemade tomato sauce. Building a sauce from scratch is a lot of fun. Metaphysically, taking a pile of vegetables and turning it into a delicious sauce is a wonderful act of transformation. More concretely, you can convert about $15 of fresh vegetables into food that will actually get eaten instead of…

  • Pasta e Fagioli

    Pasta e Fagioli is a delicious soup. Rich, earthy, nutritious, and quite satisfying, this is a favorite soup of ours here at Salty Cook central. You can put this soup together several hours before you plan to eat and let it simmer a while to really get those flavors melded together. Ingredients Process I hope…

  • Dinner Failure

    In the world of the home cook, failure is always an option. Having no formal training, mediocre resources, and a variety of palates to please can make home cooking quite challenging at times. This is especially true when you’re trying to lean in to healthier food. Tonight’s dinner, for which I had high hopes, was…

  • Grilled Chicken & Sweet Potato Bowls

    This healthy and delicious meal is sure to satisfy your palate and your body. Chicken is a nice lean protein; we recommend organic, antibiotic-free chicken, or chicken from a local farmer’s market if you can get it. Sweet potatoes are full of vitamins and fiber, and they’re delicious. And finally, avocados are a source of…

  • Cooking Tip of the Day: Mise en Place

    One of the biggest game-changers for me when I was learning to elevate my kitchen game was the idea of mise-en-place. Loosely translated, mise-en-place means “everything in its place,” and it’s a kitchen organizing strategy that makes cooking vastly easier. It helps you build an efficient workflow and clean up the kitchen as you go.…

  • Tonight’s Dinner: Homemade Pizza

    I have always loved making homemade pizza. Pizza is probably my favorite food. You can prepare it in so many ways: thin crust, thicker crust, Chicago style. You can top it with anything. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of sauce options. There are hundreds of cheese combinations. You can add herbs and spices to the…