Tools
Cinnamon
Cinnamon is the ultimate spice. I’d wager that if you asked a room full of people to name a spice, the survey would say cinnamon was the most popular choice. It’s available ground or in […]
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Condiments
How to Make Cranberry Lime Compote
This cranberry lime compote kicks canned cranberry sauce’s butt. Excuse my language, but it’s really, really good, but let’s back up a bit. What is a compote? A compote is one of two types of […]
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Host a Cupcake Exchange
Think outside the cookie jar this holiday season by upgrading your annual cookie swap with cupcakes. A few minor changes to your usual SOP (Swap Operating Procedure) are all it takes to send friends and […]
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 […]
Tools
Nutmeg
Sweet potato pie. Eggnog. Coca Cola. Yes, Coca Cola. What do they have in common? They all feature the flavor of nutmeg. The seed of a tree originally found in the aptly-named Spice Islands, nutmeg […]
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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 […]
Tips
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 […]