ARTICLES BY DAN BOLYARD
Getting creative with casseroles
Casseroles normally don't make an appearance at our house, except for after baking a turkey. I ate lots of casseroles as a kid and really have no aversion to them today. My daughter noted that the one listed below hadn't been made for the last two years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Zucchini, zucchini everywhere
We should consider renaming the season of summer to zucchini, as that is what has been most prolific in our garden this year. We want to eat the stuff up, but there comes a point where another loaf of zucchini bread is met with a certain amount of dread, though …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Preserving watermelon
In our household quest to preserve interesting foods, we came across a recipe for watermelon jelly, which will complement our batches of watermelon rind pickles. Knowing that this recipe is considered a hand-me-down, it hasn’t been fully lab tested. It does have the same quantities of sugar and acid as …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
White or red? Pick a spaghetti sauce that will impress your guests
I was cooking for a potluck the other day and I wanted to make a really flavorful spaghetti. I didn’t want to make just a regular sauce, nor did I only want to make one sauce.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Enchiladas have endless possibilities
An enchilada is a rolled corn tortilla filled with meat, covered with a chili sauce of some sort and then baked. With all sorts of variations available, what do you want to fill it with?
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Take a stab at grilling kebabs
Kebabs are a great way to grill vegetables and meats on the grill. The stick allows you to easily move the food around or to flip it over to further cooking on the other side. If you have no grill, you could use the broiler in your oven. If doing …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Don't throw away that purslane, make a meal of it
I’ve always considered purslane to be a weed, and have always dispatched them accordingly. It wasn’t until last week that I was introduced to the culinary side of it.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
The Grant County Gourmet: Apricot season is time for a jam session
Apricot season is still in full swing here. We have bowls and containers seemingly all over the kitchen. We almost have a tree of our own, but it has produced small walnut-sized specimens this year, and even yet they are not quite ripe. We’ve picked from neighborhood trees in a …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Lemon curd seems unlikely but tastes marvelous
My first exposure to lemon curd happened in chef school. One class had us making up this yellow spread that called for what I thought at the time was a wild mixture of ingredients that couldn’t possibly go together successfully. Boy, was I wrong!
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
A quiche is just a quiche
A commonly made recipe in our house is quiche. It is easy to make up quickly and is adaptable to the ingredients you have on hand. For example, I was over at a friend’s house and decided that I would make these with chopped up chicken and apple sausage. Also, …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Homemade biscuits are worth the effort
My daughter came across a recipe for cream biscuits that can be made up and placed in the oven during the time it takes for the oven to heat up. This was intriguing to me, as I had always made them with recipes that called for cutting the fat into …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Grant County Gourmet
We’ve been fans of Cougar Gold cheese for quite some time. When I started writing this piece, we had seven cans in the refrigerator of the stuff, the oldest can only dating from 2009. I won’t go into the history of Cougar Gold, being the flagship cheese of the WSU …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Try cooking your bacon in the oven
I had the opportunity to make up breakfast for a large crowd the other day. I chose this meal as I have finally gotten all of my chickens together into a coop and then went on one final egg hunt. Seventy five good eggs were found. I also had a …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Holm's train restored
WASILLA, ALASKA - Monte Holm's old steam whistle is about to blow again.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
