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Wooden Spoons
There’s a certain charm that comes with leaning over a simmering pot, stirring it tenderly with a wooden spoon. In the days before nearly every kitchen had an electric hand- or stand mixer, wooden spoons […]
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How to Separate an Egg
Techniques
How to Toast Coconut
Learning how to toast coconut sounds easy enough and it is, but like most simple tasks it’s just as easy to mess up. Shredded coconut browns beautifully in the oven or on the stove top […]
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Sweet Potatoes vs Yams
News flash: sweet potatoes and yams are not the same thing. They are often referred to and used interchangeably, but there is a difference. They come from two completely different families and what most of […]
Techniques
How to Bake a Potato
A properly baked potato should be light and fluffy on the inside with a crisp skin on the outside. Potatoes cooked in a microwave or wrapped in foil are technically steamed. They have a different […]
Recipes
Spinach & Mixed Greens Salad with Bacon, Tomatoes & Blue Cheese Dressing
Ingredients: For Salad: 4 cups spinach leaves, rinsed and patted dry 4 cups salad greens, rinsed and patted dry 1 cup grape tomatoes, halved lengthwise 5 slices cooked bacon, crumbled 4 hard-cooked eggs, peeled and […]
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Potato 101
In French, potatoes are pommes de terre or apples of the earth. They’re relatively simple to grow, which makes them inexpensive and widely abundant. Nutritionally, they are high in complex carbohydrates, but contain little or […]