Food Adventures of a Comfort Cook
Welcome July! In Utah, there are two holidays that are celebrated with much revelry, food and fireworks.
July 4th starts out the month to celebrate the American colonies declaring independence from Mother England.
The end of month celebration is July 24th, Pioneer Day, which commemorates entry of...
By Roy Cokenour
with Notes by Mary Cokenour
As many are aware, my wife Mary writes a food column for our local paper, The San Juan Record; and also has her own food blog, Food Adventures of a Comfort Cook. She has often reviewed restaurants, other food related businesses, products and gadgets.
I...
Let’s play one of those “name this” games. Name a dessert made with rice... Bet your answer would immediately be rice pudding.
Most folks would also consider this dessert’s origin to be either the United Kingdom or America itself. That would make you lose points in my game, as we will be going...
This Little Piggy
By Mother Goose
“This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none.
This little piggy went ...Wee, wee, wee,
all the way home!”
However, my little piggies ended up inside bacon, crescent roll dough and...
Oatmeal has been, well as far as my life time is concerned, been advertised as one of the best foods to have for breakfast. On its own, oats are low in fat, high in protein and fiber; contain antioxidants that reduce inflammation, and relax arteries which means “heart healthy”. Oats are naturally...
The usual date night for the Cokenours is Saturday; watching anime, scarfing down pizza, and making fun of the commercials.
However, we happened to go down to Blanding on a Friday night, around dinner time, and decided to visit Homestead Steak House.
We had not been there since before the “Covid...
Laying the deep-fried meat onto a cutting board, the knife is positioned to cut one-inch pieces. With a deft hand, the blade is pushed downward and a soft “thwack” sound upon the board.
A rocking motion, once forward, once backward, and the one-inch sections comes off cleanly. The exterior of the...
When it comes to Asian cuisine, most Americans only know about what is listed on a restaurant menu. However, if you’re brave enough and willing to be adventurous ask for what a typical Asian would eat at home.
When we lived in Pennsylvania we would travel to Philadelphia monthly to visit Chinatown...
Way back, in 2019, I was writing up my trilogy on pizza, and the October 9 issue of the San Juan Record, concerned, not just Sicilian, but French bread style.
Even then, the bread labeled, in the local markets, as French bread, was, in fact, just plain, soft, wide loaves of white bread. But hey,...
According to the Urban Dictionary, “Originally “word to the mother.” is used by African- Americans as a salutation.
It means “Give due respect to the motherland from which we came.” Can be used in the same context as “Keep it real.” or, also, can be used to literally express respect to the...
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