Mardi Gras Recipes
Recipes

How to Make a Roux

One of the things I love about cooking is the mystery, how a handful of unrelated ingredients merge and create a new, wonderful thing. Oil + Vinegar = Vinaigrette. Cream + Melted Chocolate = Ganache. […]

Blender vs Food Processor
Tools

Blender vs Food Processor

Stocking your kitchen can be overwhelming, especially if you’re uncertain about the tools you’ll need. If you’re chopping ice, pureeing soups, or making dough, a food processor or blender will make your life easier, but […]

Honey vs sugar
Tools

Honey vs Sugar

Sugar……ah, honey, honey. Sugar and honey are so often used interchangeably in recipes, but while both are sweeteners they are different. Honey is a natural sweetener created by honey bees from the nectar they collect […]

Appetizers

Chunky Guacamole

Chunky guacamole is a whole mood, y’all. There’s a time and a place for everything (or so the saying goes). Today is the time and this is the place to celebrate all things guacamole. There […]

Tools

Skewers

No grill kit is complete without skewers, thin metal or wooden sticks used to hold small pieces of food together on the grill (think kebabs). They have one pointy end for piercing food as it’s […]