Tips
How to Read a Recipe | Recipe-Reading Tips
Learning how to read a recipe is the first and most important step in cooking (this was one of my first posts), especially if you’re preparing something for the first time. Recipe Reading Tips A […]
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Are You My (Mother) Sauce? | 5 Mother Sauces
The five mother sauces are the base sauces from which most other cooked sauces are made. By incorporating additional ingredients into a mother sauce, you can create numerous small or compound sauces. Let’s start at […]
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Crowd Control | Don’t Overcrowd Your Pan
There’s a scene in the movie Julie & Julia where Julie realizes she’s been cooking mushrooms the wrong way her entire life. This is not uncommon. Like most people, she’d been piling her pan high […]
Tools
Shallots
I’d never heard of shallots until I went to cooking school. I’d passed them in the grocery store, but never gave them a second thought. A few weeks in, shallots had become the center of […]
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Techniques
How to Sauté Perfectly Every Time
Learning how to sauté will change your life in the kitchen. Sautéing is cooking food quickly at a high temperature in a small amount of oil — just enough to cover the bottom of the […]