Cooking Techniques – Easterling Family Recipes

Fried Chicken

Who doesn’t love fried chicken? The trick to getting this right is all about watching the temperature while it’s cooking, and let me tell you, the results were phenomenal. (Tell me that drumstick doesn’t make your mouth water. I dare ya.)

Air Fryer Pork Loin

This is my new favorite way to cook pork loin. Tender, juicy, and delicious. The only downside is that you’re probably not going to have any leftovers.

How to: Hunks of Meat

This installment of Don’t Starve is dedicated to cooking… well, it’s in the title.

Oven “Hard-Boiled” Eggs

A low-effort alternative to hard-boiling eggs

Bacon Bits

How to make your own homemade bacon bits.

Ground Beef: Tough to Tender

How to turn cheaper “tube” ground beef into one of the most tender meats you’ve served.

Green Beans (baby food)

1 can (14.5 ounces) green beans 1 cube chicken bullion 2 to 3 ounces breast milk or formula Optional: 1/8 teaspoon black pepper Directions: Place green beans, bullion, and optional black pepper into a 2-quart pot. Simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. Allow to cool slightly. Place all ingredients into a blender; blend until smooth.Continue reading “Green Beans (baby food)”

Peanut Butter & Grits

(Being a southerner myself, I know that this just sounds wrong. However, my 1-year-old son has an iron deficiency, and grits and peanut butter are both good sources of iron, so I decided to see what would happen if I combined them. Amazingly, it turned out really good. It tastes like a less-sweet version ofContinue reading “Peanut Butter & Grits”

Air Fryer Cooking Chart

(This is the cooking chart from the Quick Start Guide for the Ninja Foodi 2-Basket Air Fryer.) Food Amount Temp Single Dual Oil? Prep Asparagus 1 bunch 390 F 8-12 min 20-25 min 2 tsp Whole, trimmed Bacon 3 strips 350 F 8-10 min 9-12 min None Cut in half Beets 6-7 small 390 FContinue reading “Air Fryer Cooking Chart”

Frequently-Used Ingredients

This isn’t an all-encompassing list, but these are things that I try to keep on-hand as they are used in quite a few recipes. Salt Pepper Milk Eggs (chicken) Butter or Margarine Mayonnaise Mustard Sriracha Soy Sauce Hot Sauce All-purpose Flour Self-rising Flour Pasta (Spaghetti, Fettuccini, Elbow Macaroni, Shells, Egg Noodles, Rotini) Rice (I recommendContinue reading “Frequently-Used Ingredients”