The Galley Podcast is built on four primary fundamentals that we key on each week. Embracing Heritage: What is special about "the Greatest Generation?" We are on a mission to understand the immigrant journey that often started with nothing. How did we get to where we are today? Quality Ingredients: We are firm believers of quality inputs = quality outputs. We explore gardening techniques and will focus on the ingredients that you can grow in your own garden or obtain locally. Great Recipes: We will introduce dishes that will sure to be a hit with your family. We are constantly in test mode in the Galley. Experimenting with ingredients and techniques to produce creative results. Progressive Methods: Going from "B to A." This is the pillar with which we hope will translate from the kitchen into your everyday life and in the professional world. How can the creative process enhance your skill set?
On today’s program, we’re going to be continuing with the theme of what to do with all that garden produce. This will be our Tampa Week episode where were going to be experimenting with different salsas from Rick Bayless to top our production of homemade burritos. Garden tomatoes are the order of the day. I...
On today’s program, with the garden harvests coming in in full force, we’re going to turn our attention to water bath canning. Part of having a productive garden is to learn methods of food preservation. Canning is certainly one of those methods. Our focus is going to be turning an ordinary cucumber into an amazing...
On today’s program, we’re returning back to the North Shore near the Stewart River where Betty Lessard prepared and sold many thousands of pies. With her business, came her legacy. We’re passing the five-year anniversary of starting this series and we’re making one another one of my favorites, the strawberry cream pie. It was one...
On today’s program, this will be our second of two gardening projects we’re making in back to back months. Part of every successful gardener is a having a good composting system to feed into your soil what your plants are taking out. For our second project, we’ll be making a worm bin. This will be...
On today’s program, our 100th episode is all about gardening. We’re going to be doing our first garden related project and that’s making a cold frame. This is what’s known as a weather beater that will help you extent your growing season as well as a lot of other benefits. We’re basing our build from...
On today’s program, we’re going to preparing what I think is an outstanding soup that comes out of Twelve Months of Monastery Soups cookbook and that is the Yellow Pea Soup. This is a soup recipe, with probably the exception of the yellow split peas, that you could make with ingredients that come right out of...
On today’s program, January is usually our homemade pizza month. Last year, we made Detroit Style Deep Dish pizza, well this year we are making King Arthur Flour’s Recipe of the Year, Crispy Cheesy Pan Pizza. This is following in the footsteps of the Detroit Style pizza, but this one is made in a cast...
On today’s program, we’re back into the kitchen and preparing one of the first soups that I made when I started out in soup making quite a while ago and that is Tuscan White Bean Soup with Winter Vegetables. This recipe was inspired from Chris Kimball’s Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook. We’ve made that recipe our own...
On today’s program, we’re introducing our newest garden related segment, The Victory Garden. When the growing season ends, in our case in October and November, probably the most important thing you can do is to prepare your soil for the next gardening season. We did that with the help of James Underwood Crockett who used...
On today’s program, it’s Tampa Week which we like to celebrate once a year by focusing our culinary efforts south of the boarder or ocean if you will to Cuban or Mexican food. This year, we’re going to be trying Rich Bayless’ Black Bean soup. The recipe is online and freely available if you would...