The Salty Cook

Tag: food

  • Cowboy Butter Chicken Pasta

    I don’t know why they call this Cowboy Butter. To me that sounds like the name of an intimacy product marketed at men (Giddyup!), but I digress. This recipe features chicken and pasta in a flavorful seasoned butter sauce. Enjoy it, pardner. Ingredients Process

  • Sourdough Bread

    Oh hell yeah. Everybody likes sourdough bread. Well, a lot of people do. Some people anyway. I personally love it. There’s nothing better than a slice of home-baked sourdough bread. I like to toast it and slather it with honey and butter, but you do you. Note: Begin this process about 4 days before you…

  • How to Build and Maintain a Sourdough Starter

    The first step to making sourdough bread is making sourdough starter. Sourdough starter is essentially a “mother culture:” a living colony of yeast that you’ll use to leaven your sourdough. Some people can keep a starter alive for years; commercial bakers have sourdough strains that are who knows how old. The process is simple: take…

  • Garlic-Ginger Salad Dressing

    Ingredients Optional: Process

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Grilled Beef Skewers and Spicy Garlic Sauce

    The experience of eating a skewered piece of meat is very human and primal. Meat! On a stick! This meat-on-a-stick recipe features beef marinated in garlic, ginger, soy sauce, sriracha, and honey. Enjoy! Note: this recipe requires a marinating time of at least 30 minutes, and if you are using wooden skewers, at least 30…

  • Southwest Street Corn Cobb Salad

    This salad is loosely based on a salad served at one of our favorite local cafes. We learned how to make it ourselves so we could have it whenever we want! The street corn salsa and creamy chili-lime dressing add a nice punch to this fresh, healthy, and flavorful salad. Enjoy! Ingredients Creamy Chili lime…