My first challenge: Teach novices to cook in 2 hours. What was I thinking? My second challenge: Same time frame, narrower focus. This time, it was grassfed beef and pastured chicken and pork. As promised, here’s a look at those two cooking classes, each attended by ten persons. (You can read the course descriptions and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cooking tips'
Cooking class report card: Let’s call it a B-
November 6th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Cooking tips, Food preparation
Tip: Cook corn in the husk
August 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Cooking for one, Cooking tips, Food preparation
Can corn on the cob relieve anxiety? Probably not, but maybe writing about it will. The project I’m working on has me in a knot of anxiety, which I hate. I’m not usually an anxious person. I do like writing on this blog, though, so as a reward to myself for a day of teeth-gnashing [...]
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Tip: Look to your garden for garnishes
May 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Cooking tips
A remarkable number of common flowers are edible, and they make wonderful taste and color garnishes for your cooking. Case in point: I recently attended a potluck to which I contributed a salad composed primarily of fresh-from-the-market lettuce and spinach. For color and added flavor interest I added some end-of-season orange slices, chives, goat cheese [...]
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Standard Leek & Potato Soup still bursts with flavor
January 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Cooking tips, Food preparation, recipes
Like lots of cooks, I long ago learned how to make Leek & Potato Soup. It’s a standard-bearer of the maxim, “less is more.” Somewhere along the line, though, I quit making it, and yesterday I righted that wrong. It warmed me to the bone. With what’s left, I can enjoy that wonderful flavor again, [...]
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By request: How to section grapefruit without membranes
December 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Cooking tips
It’s funny the kitchen tasks you take for granted. My friend and her souffles, for example, or me and my grapefruits sections (or my orange sections—same idea). But this weekend I took a salad that included grapefruit sections to a gathering, and Ann recalled the tedious task from her childhood of removing the membranes from [...]
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Pick a parcel of peppers and put ‘em up
September 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Cooking tips, Food preparation, local food
What do you do when someone gives you nearly a peck of (unpickled) hot peppers like these? If you’re like me, you freeze them. (Of course, you could also pickle them.) I no doubt harmed their quality by letting them sit in the fridge for a week, but then I dug in. I washed them, [...]
