After watching our Simple Brick Oven Plan Video, Roger sent us these photos of his Brick Oven Construction. He has modified the Brick Pizza Oven Plan we used to be able to hold more heat and make a Backyard Brick Bread Oven. Enjoyed your brick oven video. We found the same plan after being inspired [...]
Ah, meatloaf — it brings back memories of a cross-country road trip, getting lost, and finding a diner that served the best home-cooked meals. The meatloaf was delicious, moist and smooth, but the waitress was salty. I asked her what was in it, she made a crack about lost college kids. In a hushed tone [...]
Sugar cookies are an easy christmas cookie recipe, even I can make these holiday cookies, maybe. Watch here and learn how to make sugar cookies for Christmas and the holidays. Universal Sugar Cookie Recipe This sugar cookie recipe is based on one Chris Kimball wrote about, saying its the universal recipe used by almost every [...]
Although this batch of socca is fresh from my Brooklyn oven, it’s origins are in Southern France. Socca (faranita) is a crépe made with chickpea flour, it’s similar to the savory Indian “chila,” but much less complicated. Bean flours are a good alternative to wheat flour — very high in protein and fiber. In Nice, [...]
We made a sauerkraut how-to video today. Fermenting green or red cabbage into sauerkraut is an easy recipe to make, and the possibilities are endless. Fermentation and fermented foods are on the rise, with their probiotic organisms and all around healthy food reputation. Making sauerkraut should be on the to do list of all urban [...]
Baking a roast turkey or cooking a roast chicken is not hard. Our recipe for baking a turkey is a classic with an Eric spin on it. Mayonnaise. GardenFork.TV Roast Turkey Recipe How-To Buy the best turkey you can afford. The uber-organic ones are pretty pricey, I found a mid-range fresh turkey at the local [...]
The publishers of Campfire Cookery were nice enough to send us a copy of Campfire Cookery: Adventuresome Recipes and Other Curiosities for the Great Outdoors , by Sarah Huck and Jaimee Young, to give away to the GardenFork audience. The book is full of recipes that you can cook outdoors, either in your [...]
She, Who Must Be Obeyed, wanted “a-big-mess-o-greens” last night…and cornbread. “Fine. You pick’em, I’ll cook’em.” So a while later she comes back with a big-mess-o-mess. “What have you done?,” I ask as I sort through the bale of leaves She dumps on the counter. Collards, fine. Chard, fine. But what’s this? “Honey, that’s one of [...]
Rick and I talked on GF Radio about his ‘ah ha’ moments working with baking powder, and Rick wrote a post about how baking powder works on his Rick’s Column for GF. I added to the conversation that I had learned about how baking powder works, and why it needs to be fresh, from my [...]
Corn bread was pancake flat yesterday, which got me to studying the recipe and the ingredients. Then I realized I’d never understood baking powder. What is it? what does it do? BP acts like yeast, releasing CO2 to make gas bubbles so the batter will be fluffy. Yeast do it by eating sugars and then [...]
Inspired by Daniel Gasteiger’s new book Yes, You Can! and Freeze and Dry It too book on canning, freezing and more, we are now fermenting cabbage into sauerkraut. And we are shooting a video on how to make sauerkraut. Above are the two jars we are fermenting for the video. I did one batch with [...]
Kimchi Jigae, or kimchi soup, is a traditional winter stew from Korea. It’s like a very spicy hot and sour soup made with fermented cabbage — some call it the cure-all for all winter ailments. It’s simple to make and many of the ingredients are not considered as exotic anymore. You might be able to [...]
This fried dish marks the last summer harvest — sweet corn and zucchini from Eric’s garden make for some tasty, savory fritters. Some find it difficult to make golden, crispy fritters that hold together. When something is deep-fried correctly it is not greasy and the inside is perfectly steamed. The usual suspects are soggy batter, [...]
I was asked to bring bread to a pot luck, and luckily, i had just started a batch of the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day the night before. With this method, take 6 1/2 cups of flour, water, yeast, salt and put it in a large container. You let it rise for a [...]
Recently we were working on a paint job in Sunset Park Brooklyn, and we realized that Brooklyn’s Chinatown was just a few avenues away. Tony, ( who works with me in addition to writing recipes for GardenFork ) and I had previously visited Thanh Da II ( 5624 8th Avenue, Brooklyn NY ) in Brooklyn’s [...]
