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Recipes, cooking lessons, tips, tricks, food blog, and more.
Recipes, cooking lessons, tips, tricks, food blog, and more.
Topics that help understand what is happening when you are preparing a dish, why a certain technique is used instead of another. Boring for some, indispensable for others, cooking theory frees you from slavery to recipes.
Some people seem to get dishes done and ready quicker than others. Most of these people simply have learned how to maximise the time available to cook. They use their cooking time wisely - You can learn to do that too.
Why shouldn't you use expensive, tender cuts of meat for pot roasts? Because they aren't roasts at all! Understanding the braising technique could save you loads!
Describes the classic French cooking technique used to thicken a sauce with butter.
Grilling is a dry cooking method. It is done on a grill (gas, electric or wood/charcoal), with heat coming from below.
Home-made stock is simple to make, as well as cheaper and better than purchasing at the supermarket.
Handwashing is extremely important to prepare safe food. This explains and demonstrate how to properly wash your hands.
Jamie Oliver commented in one of his shows that he was surprised that people didn't know how to boil water. This seems a bit of a throw-away comment, but the thing is, boiling water isn't quite as straight forward as we think initially.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it probably needs a little more time in the microwave. Lori Dowdy