A long time ago, I joked about doing “bachelor laundry,” a concept where I would joke about jamming everything in the washer, pouring a whole bottle of whatever cleaners I deemed necessary, and running through the most clothes-damaging steps to scare someone else into saying, “Don’t do your clothes that way, here, let me do…
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The title says it all. This is what a single man cooks and eats. And he shares his recipes.
A cast iron pan designed just for breakfast sausage? The devil you say!
A few weeks ago, when I ordered some boutique food online (by “boutique” I mean some Pennsylvania Dutch meats and cheeses), I needed to purchase one more item for free shipping. Well, I already ordered some of the company’s breakfast sausages, and there was an offer for what looked like a weirdly-shaped cast iron pan.…
Read MoreBachelor Cooking: Chicken Friccasee
I recently won a cast iron Dutch oven at the local casino – well, “won” in that I had to play to earn 75 casino points, which qualified me to RECEIVE the Dutch oven (oh, and I won $400 on one of the slot machines, so there’s that). So I tried to make something with…
Read MoreBachelor Cooking: Chicken Spiedie Riggies
Okay … it sounds like I just mashed up two Central New York regional delicacies. And yeah … I kinda did. Because I had a bottle of this stuff … And I had a jar of this stuff. So I did the whole “you got chocolate in my peanut butter, well you got peanut butter…
Read MoreIt’s a toaster … and an oven??
For the life of me, I can’t find a decent toaster. In the past, I’ve purchased toasters that, for some innate reason, only have two temperature settings. I can choose from lukewarm or burnt. Nothing in between. The last toaster I owned apparently had only one setting – burnt on one side and raw on…
Read MoreHow come none of you told me about LAOGANMA 老干妈 Chili Sauce?
I personally blame the YouTube algorithm for this. Because if it hadn’t dumped this video in my feed, I wouldn’t have known about this product. Let me explain. Apparently there’s a chili sauce condiment that has suddenly become the new “IT” food. It’s manufactured by a Chinese company called LAOGANMA, and it’s not a super-hot-fire-Carolina-Reaper…
Read MoreBachelor Cooking: An Artisan Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Okay, let’s start with the ingredients. This should be simple. Yesterday, my plan was to purchase all these ingredients at the newly-opened Albany Farmer’s Market. Unfortunately, the “Farmer’s Market” did not contain anything that even remotely looked like a true farmer’s market. There were no booths that sold fresh farm cheese, or freshly baked breads.…
Read MoreBachelor Cooking: Bacon-Burger-Dogs (a/k/a “Shotgun Shells”)
Apparently there’s a tasty concoction among the barbecue cognoscenti that creates something called a “shotgun shell,” meat stuffed in a pasta and wrapped in bacon and grilled. Okay, you could arguably call them “cholesterol bullets,” but that’s on you. I don’t own a barbecue grill. So I have to modify this recipe for my oven.…
Read MoreHomer Laughlin china in the National pattern.
After my 2011 divorce, my dining experience consisted of royal food – Burger King, Dairy Queen, that kind of stuff. And as for dinnerware – I was living off paper plates and plastic flatware. Today, my dinner plates and bowls are a mixmash of various styles and compositions. Some plates from Walmart, some bowls from…
Read MoreBachelor Cooking: the simplest way to make mashed potatoes from scratch
Last Sunday, while running errands, I stopped at the Honest Weight Co-Op for some supplies. While my car charged in their free car-charging station (yay for Lightning’s Girl!), I purchased some fruits, some vegetables, a nice New York strip steak filet, and some various potatoes – Yukon Golds, common reds, and Adirondack blues. And last…
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