The Salty Cook

Tag: home cooking

  • Five Spice Beef Noodle Soup

    This is a Pho-inspired soup that can be put together in about a half hour. It’s flavorful and bright yet lightweight, so makes for a fantastic lunch or dinner any time of the year. Ingredients Process

  • 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

  • Hamburger Quesadillas

    Hamburgers are a classic American dinner meal, especially in the summer months as we move firmly into Grilling Season. This twist on the classic hamburger is easy to execute and fun to make, however, it’s best made on a flat top vs. a grated grill. It goes great with a side of burger sauce for…

  • Burger Sauce

    If you enjoy a good hamburger – and who doesn’t? – you’ll want to try this tasty Burger Sauce. It’s great on the actual burger patty, or works well as a dip on the side. As an added bonus, it’s great with fries, too! Ingredients Process

  • Garlic-Ginger Salad Dressing

    Ingredients Optional: Process

  • 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…