If you love and make pesto—more than you can use at one meal—you know that storing it can pose problems. The miracle of zipper-lock plastic bags comes to the rescue. Here’s how it works: Put your pesto in a bag (I use a jar funnel to ease the task) and flatten it out to remove [...]
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Tip: Use plastic bag to store pesto
September 4th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Cooking for one, Cooking tips, Food preparation
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Tip: Try this list of zucchini recipes
August 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Cooking tips, recipes
Does anybody really like zucchini? Seems as though most people (or at least those with gardens or CSA memberships) regard eating it as a duty, which is understandable given its proliferation and blandness. I can’t say I have the solution, but I have one link to offer. Rather than providing a compendium of recipes (who [...]
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Tip: Sign up for late season with CSA
August 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Cooking tips, local food
If you’d love to get CSA produce, but you didn’t sign up in time last spring, you just might want to see whether there are openings now for fall. You know how it goes. People lose interest, move, get sick or drop out for some other reason (whatever the activity), which makes room for someone [...]
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Tip: Fruit + half & half = dessert
July 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Cooking tips, Food preparation, recipes
A simple combination of half & half plus fresh fruit makes for a supremely simple and seemingly decadent dessert.
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Tip: Long-handled spoon makes great chicken lifter
July 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Cooking tips, Tools
A long handled wooden spoon or cooking spoon with a heavy, rigid handle makes easy work of lifting a hot (or cold!) chicken. Just insert the business end of the spoon into the large cavity and lift.
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Tip: Roll dough up with a towel
June 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Cooking tips, Tools
Rolling up dough as for cinnamon rolls is easy and neat work with the help of a tea towel. Roll out a soft dough onto flowered towel, then lift edge of towel to roll it over onto itself.
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