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  • One-Pot Chorizo Noodles

    Flavorful Mexican chorizo – available at most supermarkets, but you could also try your local Latin supermarket – adds a fabulous layer of flavor to this dish. Ingredients Process

  • Brookie Cake

    Several years ago we took a trip to New York. My daughter found an enormous, brick-sized cookie/brownie thing at this little tea shop. We’ve been chasing that Brookie ever since. This recipe makes a delicious, well-balanced, flavorful brownie-cookie that the whole family will enjoy. Ingredients cookie Brownie * Dutch-process cocoa powder is made differently from…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…