About BernieMichalikCooking.com

What is BernieMichalikCooking.com? It’s my other blog devoted to cooking! While you can see it as a whole, here, you can also check out individual posts by clicking any of the links below.

1. Substantial salads for supper are super in summer
2. Once you have my formula for casseroles you’ll be making them all the time. Here’s why.
3. Jazz up your cooking with these three good hot sauces
4. Crudo! It’s hot! It’s cold! It’s delicious! Here’s how to make your own
5. Ribs with my cheater BBQ sauce recipe is a great simple way to enjoy ribs
6. Paella-ish, or how to make a colorful and delicious meal of rice and seafood goodness
7. In praise of pasta alla gricia (now with salami)
8. Barley risotto! Or how to transform a simple slow cooked chicken into something extra
9. On Laura’s blue cheese pasta, and other fine uses for this great cheese
10. Make your house smell insanely great with this slow cooked pork roast with Asian flavours
11. If you only learn to bake one thing, make it these emergency brownies from Nigella
12. Fast and Easy beef stew for me and you (it’s easy too, courtesy of Martha)
13. Coq au vin riesling is great because you get to drink more riesling! Also it is delicious
14. Do you need a signature dish? Why not make it these decidedly delicious short ribs?
15. One pot Beef and Mushroom Stroganoff is the perfect midweek meal
16. Pork chops are neglected and that’s a shame! I’m here to change that with these three or thirty recipes.
17. Food better than you think: Vegetarian French Dip Sandwiches!
18. My super-duper easy way to use up leftover turkey each year (i.e., Canadian Living Fast-Lane Chicken Pot Pie)
19. A simple chicken dish that you can make your own: five ingredient lemon chicken
20. In praise of fettuccine alfredo (and sorry cacio e pepe)
21. This spicy pb ramen is making me look forward to lunch again
22. Paprika! One of the greatest of spices.
23. The best way to cook chicken in summer is with this
24. When the world is running down, toad in the hole is a pick me up
25. You have a bunch of food you need to use up. Let’s make a risotto and fix that.
26. How do you thaw fish? It really depends.
27. How to develop your own pasta recipe, the 3 part Bon Appetit way
28. Sunday Feast: Nigella’s Herbed Leg of Lamb with Lemon Potatoes from SK
29. In praise of St. JOHN
30. There are a few simple recipes that are magical. Nigella Lawson’s Scallops and Chorizo are one of them
31. Meatballs are perfect. Let me convince you.
32. The genius of Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce, now in a marinara version!
33. Can you make a meal in 30 minutes or less? Of course you can!
34. The once and future great ingredient: sun-dried tomatoes
35. Alison Roman and Ikea’s Vardagen cast iron casserole pot: two good things that go good together
36. Carmelized onions are great. Here’s what you need to know
37. Are you afraid to cook with cast iron? I’m here to help
38. All the slow cooker recipes you read are wrong
39. If you want to add fish to your life, add this recipe to your repitoire
40. Some thoughts on having Wagyu steak. (My own personal experience and thoughts)
41. Last night’s pasta sauce is this morning’s shakshuka sauce
42. How to cook a chicken with Bill Gates and live better
43. One of my favourite things to make: Mark Bittman’s baked eggs
44. Andrea’s pasta with short ribs is the pasta you want to make soon
45. No one knows how to make a strata (but you should make one anyway)
46. Manhattan Style Clams are fancy and yet not
47. In praise of Alabama White BBQ Sauce
48. It’s September. You need dinner ideas. Here’s 30.
49. If you have a box of vegetables showing up at your door and you don’t know what to do with them all, do this.
50. On Pink Salt and salt in general
51. Moules marinière may be a perfect dish. Here’s why
52. An ultimate sandwich to jazz up your lunchtime
53. In praise of a beautiful and dead-easy-to-make pasta
54. Having a Canadian BLT and reading the story on it (Canadian Bacon, or as we call it, peameal bacon)
55. A good (potato) gratin is something you can have fun with. Here’s how.
56. I love spaghetti carbonara and I want you to too (so read this)
57. Riffable Minestrone Soup
58. One pot pasta recipe for when you can barely do the minimum
59. On Jiggs Dinner (corned beef and cabbage)
60. French fries anyone can make (including you)
61. The best cake recipe for beginners* may be this (also great for everyone!)
62. How to eat a roast chicken, by Thomas Keller
63. What happened to cheap cuts of meat?
64. A thought on stir fries
65. What even is a Bollito Misto?
66. From the humble ‘beans and greens’ soup to soup Roberto
67. Puttanesca Sauce: not just for pasta
68. How to host a spaghettata di mezzanotte, or “midnight spaghetti party”
69. My rush hour stir fry noodle recipe
70. The world needs more cookie recipes. Here’s 30.
71. It’s cold: you need curry recipes.
72. How to Cook Faster from Mark Bittman
73. In praise of La Sauvagine cheese
74. Not just a roast chicken but an entire meal
75. New cookbooks for the fall
76. Indian food is a good gateway to vegetarian/vegan cooking
77. My favorite clam recipe, via Eric Ripert
78. Riffable meals: Lentil Niçoise Salad
79. Ratatouille-ish is delish
80. Summer recipes for people who refuse to accept that summer is ending
81. Fall is coming: you need pork chops and apples
82. For lovers of peaches
83. On plating food
84. Some quick thoughts on vegan burgers
85. What’s the best way to cook an egg?
86. Poached fish is a thing you should do if you eat fish
87. What salt you should use when
88. How to make any green sauce
89. Cook to the indicator, not the time
90. Asparagus Tart
91. The universal appeal of cutlets
92. On Tarragon
93. On Marjoram
94. How to open your own red sauce restaurant
95. When is a meatball recipe more than a meatball recipe?
96. It’s summer. You need marinades
97. Eight great recipe lists from Chatelaine
98. Great meal plans for Valentine’s Day (or any other day for that matter)
99. Welcome to my blog

Happy Cooking!