The Salty Cook

Tag: home cooking

  • 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…

  • Cheesecake Followup

    I forgot to post photos of our cheesecake from last weekend. Here you go: This thing was a beast. Dense, flavorful…decadent. If you like a good cheesecake, you owe it to yourself to bake this recipe at least once in your life. It puts commercial cheesecakes to shame. And best of all, it’s all ingredients…

  • 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…

  • Super Chicken Bowl

    This bowl is a healthy and delicious recipe, inspired by a recent dinner failure. Sometimes, when a recipe goes sideways, the best thing to do is to reinvent it and try again! So it is with the Super Chicken Bowl. Featuring classically prepared chicken, a bright avocado salad, spicy sweet potatoes, and a fresh avocado…

  • 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…

  • Thai Basil Fried Rice

    This fried rice recipe has a really good mix of flavors. The basil and chili peppers add a nice sharp edge, and the sauce is savory and delicious. This is a favorite of mine! Ingredients Sauce Fried Rice Process