Food: Better Cooking

Top 10 food essentials for dorm-room cooking

Top 10 food essentials for dorm-room cooking

Though it may seem overwhelming at first, this guide can help you transition from dining hall-dependent to real-world chef. Here are some essential food items to buy at the grocery store to help stock your kitchen.

Roasted Goat Cheese Red Pepper Boats

Roasted Goat Cheese Red Pepper Boats

  This is what I like to call a “four ingredient recipe”-meaning that you can compile and prep the ingredients in about five minutes flat! Oh, and it’s delicious! Ingredients: Two red peppers (sweet) One small block plain goat cheese Two slices prosciutto 1/4 cup olive oil Salt and Pepper as desired Directions: Wash the

Tarte Tatin (French Apple Tart)

Tarte Tatin (French Apple Tart)

Ingredients:   While you can make the pastry dough from scratch, I found that using frozen dough worked perfectly well too! 1 sheet frozen pastry dough For the apples: 4 Granny Smith apples 1/2 cup sugar 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) cold unsalted butter, small diced 1/2 cup apricot jelly or warm sieved apricot jam 2

Better Cooking: Baby Back Ribs

Better Cooking: Baby Back Ribs

There is nothing better to do on a summer afternoon than devouring something that was once living. Enjoy you ribs with a good summer ale, preferably a Sam Adams, or a ice cold Bud heavy and enjoy your 100% Amurrcan Sunday Grilling.

Tomato Mozzarella Salad

Tomato Mozzarella Salad

This salad is delicious and is the perfect start to any light summer meal! Four tomatoes One medium-sized block of fresh mozzarella 1/4 cup fresh pesto 1/4 cup olive oil 5 tablespoons of red wine vinegar fresh basil as desired Instructions: -Slice the tomatoes and cut into cubes -cut the mozzarella into small cubes -mix

Carolina Style Pulled-Pork

Carolina Style Pulled-Pork

  **Quick side note: the pulled pork does NOT come out particularly pretty! IT’S NOT SUPPOSED TO-it is meant to be messy and ideally eaten on a roll.   Recipe: Crockpot Carolina Barbecue Pulled Pork Summary: A Carolina style barbecue vinegar pulled pork made in the slow cooker Ingredients 2 onions,quartered 2 T brown sugar

Roasted Cauliflower

Roasted Cauliflower

I got the idea for this amazingly simple recipe from a Food and Wine magazine lying around the house.  It suggested adding a few pinches of chili pepper and a sprinkle of parmesan to roasted cauliflower to give it more of a kick! Delicious! Ingredients: 1 lb. fresh cauliflower chile pepper spice grated parmesan cheese

Garlic Tilapia Filets

Garlic Tilapia Filets

This was delicious and super easy and quick to make! The oil did end up leaking out of the tin foil packets somewhat, so I suggest using a cooking sheet with holes in it and covering it with tin foil to cook the packets on. Enjoy!   Ingredients 4 (4 ounce) fillets tilapia 4 cloves