By Nick • March 3, 2010
When people ask me about Macheesmo, one of the first questions I get asked is how I don’t weigh approximately 400 pounds. I think I’ll save my philosophy on healthy eating for another post, but generally I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables with the occasional heavier meal.
I try to post delicious and interesting [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, Gadgetry, healthy, Learning to Cook, soup | Tagged barley, beans, cooking, crock pots, healthy eating, mushrooms, slow cooker, slow cookers, stew, stewed tomatoes, stews, tomatoes, veggie stew
By Nick • February 1, 2010
Believe it or not, I’m a huge believer that sometimes the simplest dishes are the best. A simple pizza, good chicken broth, and heck even well-cooked rice can be some of the best eats I know. That said, it’s very apparent to me that sometimes even those simple dishes can take longer than most people [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Learning to Cook, pasta, pork | Tagged bacon, bowtie pasta, carbonara, eggs, how to make carbonara, leeks, pasta
By Nick • January 27, 2010
When I used to bartend, I worked for a long time in the same restaurant and got to know the cooks pretty solidly. It was a Southern style restaurant with really good comfort food – fried chicken, shrimp and grits, etc. As I got more comfortable with the place, I would occasionally ask questions about [...]
Posted in Easy Stuff, Ingredients 101, Learning to Cook | Tagged butter, clarified butter, how to make clarified butter
By Nick • October 6, 2009
There are some foods that baffle me. I just have no idea how nature got it so right. Spaghetti squash is one of those things! Is it just coincidence that this lovely vegetable happens to break up into perfect little strands that resemble one of our everyday meals?
Could it be the sign of a higher [...]
Posted in Dinner, Ingredients 101, Learning to Cook, pasta | Tagged cream, Dinner, how to make spaghetti squash, mushrooms, spaghetti squash, spinach
By Nick • October 5, 2009
This may come as a shock to you, but I sometimes don’t have time to cook elaborate 3 hour meals. In fact, most weekdays I try to focus on meals that are really fast to prepare. I’m talking about a meal that takes less than probably 20 minutes to prepare and cook.
I’m talking about a [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, Learning to Cook, spicy | Tagged fajitas, habaneros, how to make fajitas, mushrooms, onions, red peppers, spicy, vegetarian
By Nick • September 22, 2009
I’ve been getting some emails from readers asking me to go in depth on various ingredients that I use frequently on Macheesmo. So I’ve decided to start a new type of post called “Ingredients 101″ where I’ll discuss a few basic ingredients in each post. This will include both how to select the ingredient and [...]
Posted in Ingredients 101, Learning to Cook | Tagged avocado, Ingredients 101, mango salsa, mangos, onions, salsa
