The Rookie Cook

If you’re on a low-carb diet and have been hating the posts and videos this week, hate no more. You have not been forgotten. This post is dedicated to you.
Culinary science has made some advances since the early days of low-carb diets, but if you’re tired of hunting for low-carb pasta or [...]

[Read more →]

Time for another stop on the Comfort Food tour. Today’s recipe not only includes potatoes, but cheese and bacon. Definitely not a recipe for vegans, though vegetarians could adapt this without too much difficulty. Best of all, this recipe is easy for a rookie cook to scale up or scale down, so [...]

[Read more →]

[Read more →]

Great comfort food usually relies on a few simple ingredients. Take mashed potatoes—just don’t take mine, considering how highly they rank on my comfort food scale. What’s in mashed potatoes? Potatoes, maybe a little butter, maybe a little milk, a little salt and pepper. That’s it. A basic theme that [...]

[Read more →]

You can boil ‘em, bake ‘em, mash ‘em, roast ‘em, nuke ‘em or fry ‘em … if you know what kind of potato to buy.  I know.  They look so simple and innocent.  Tricksy things, potatoes.
The secret is the starch content.  Potatoes can be classed into 3 categories:  low-starch, medium-starch, and high-starch.  Low-starch potatoes (also [...]

[Read more →]