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5 Minute, 5 Ingredient Soup 3 Dec 2012 | 07:07 pm
College Cooks: Are you in the midst of finals? Or about to be? Surviving on potato chips and ramen (i.e. salt)? Luckily, the College Student can survive the sustained assaults of such a diet--at least...
Healthy Soup for the College Cook 30 Nov 2012 | 03:58 am
We just finished the last week of classes. Finals next week. I am crabby. My students are looking rather peaked. I'm sure they need some vitamins. I am also sure they are eating fast food and potato c...
Why Your College Cook Needs My Cookbook 23 Nov 2012 | 08:50 pm
Miss Em forwarded me a story from her college paper. The intrepid reporter--also a good writer--did a test drive of some recipes for a cookbook geared to college students. The book itself has quite fa...
Jazzed Up Canned Soup in Your Rice Cooker 20 Aug 2012 | 02:38 am
The seasonings that make your food taste good just so happen to be one of the more expensive components of stocking your kitchen. And then there's chopping onions and garlic, then sauteeing them: time...
Veggies for the College Cook: Spinach and Broccoli Soup 14 Aug 2012 | 04:27 am
The biggest problem for the College Cook (or the recently graduated cook or even for me) is vegetables. They are more expensive than you might think. They are messy to prepare. Frugal Son figured that...
What Else To Do With Couscous 13 Aug 2012 | 04:13 am
OK. Let's say you bought the 10 pound bag of couscous from Amazon per my recommendation. Now what? If you have my ebook, you know we recommend amassing a pantry of about 20 ingredients. These include...
Couscous: Friend of College Cook 12 Aug 2012 | 05:05 am
Couscous--that wonderful middle eastern grain--is positively mainstream these days. It is also a good friend: you can cook it with tap water! We spent a good chunk of time in France last summer and ha...
Rao's Sausage, Cabbage, Tomato Sauce for the College Cook 7 Mar 2012 | 04:17 am
I wrote about this recently cooked dish on my other blog. It is a perfect recipe for a great convenience item: packaged coleslaw mix. And, no, you don't need to use the brand-named items in the recipe...
A Quick Asian Meal for the College Cook 28 Feb 2012 | 03:06 am
Check out the recipe from a bonafide College Cook. Tofu, Peanut-Hoisin Sauce, Rice, and Vegetables. Note that Miss Em, while still in a dorm suite with no stove, does have a kitchen a few doors down. ...
What You Can Cook from the Shopping List or Pantry: Permutations 27 Feb 2012 | 06:17 am
As an experienced cook, I marvel at what you can make from a limited number of pantry ingredients. Inexperienced cooks (or people who hate cooking like my mother) tend to keep their cupboards bare and...
