Author RSSGreat Sauces Always Start With Roux
Great sauces can save a badly cooked piece of chicken. However, a bad sauce will ruin the best cooked meal. Being able to consistently create flavorful and smooth sauces is one of the best skills to have in the home kitchen.
When you can make a var...
Cook Simply and Easily with Fresh Ingredients Delivered to Your Door
Do you want to cook simply and still ensure that your kitchen is only producing healthy meals? Then you are going to love the idea that I'm going to share with you today. I just received my first produce box! This produce box is filled with healthy, fres...
Learn How to Saute For Countless Quick Dinners
When you know how to sauté, then you have power over your food choices. It’s quick, easy, and you can sauté almost anything!
Most cookbooks concentrate on the list of ingredients and forget to tell you HOW to cook. When you can repeat one cooking met...
Cutting Vegetables Blindfolded is Still Easier
Cutting vegetables is so much easier when you don’t have to take out your chopper/dicer device. You might think that the electric gadget is quicker and easier than your standard chef’s knife, but you’d be wrong.
Let’s have a race. Ready, go! Get you...
The Canning How To on Barbeque Sauce
These canning how-to tips came out of necessity. You see, I’ve been making my own barbeque sauce since I was a kid, but it caused conflict in my household.
I loved using the sauce as a grilling marinade so I’d make gallons of my "New York Attitude" Ba...
Whats the Best Way For Cooking Brown Rice?
Cooking brown rice can be very confusing if you pay attention to a written recipe or package instructions. There’s more than one way to cook brown rice, just like there’s more than one way to cook chicken, beef, or vegetables.
Brown rice is whole-grai...
Dig Deep For The Best Clam Chowder and Stuffed Clams
Clam digging is a tradition in my family. I grew up on the water, and had my own boat shortly after my first bicycle. It’s an activity that not only yields fantastic fresh ingredients for cooking, but a family activity that everyone enjoys.
It’s one...
Top 15 Fathers Day Presents From The Kitchen
Fathers day presents from the kitchen are a great idea for the dad that cooks. Men and women cook differently. Men need gadgets, men like tools, and some of the best new dishes he’ll create may be because of the new device you’ve given him.
Today, I’...
Grilling How To: New Ideas From Cleaning Your Grill to Non-Stick Fish
I’m inspired to create this “Grilling How To” because outdoor cooking season is now upon us! It’s my favorite cooking time of the year, but before I actually get grilling, I’ll have to inspect my barbeque and decide whether it will survive another summer...
How To Create a 6 Course French Dinner Without Recipes
Would you break into a sweat if you had to create a 6 course French dinner for friends? Most people would, it can be intimidating cooking for other people. What makes this cooking stress even greater is trying to follow written recipes.
Cooking is fu...
9 Steps to Great Low Carb Cooking From Home
You don’t need a written recipe to achieve great low carb cooking from home. One basic cooking method and the ingredients YOU desire are all it takes. Earlier this week, I showed you a low carb chicken recipe using sauté method. Today’s inspiration wi...
A Quick Dinner Recipe Frees You From the Kitchen Faster
Stir Fry is the best way to create your own quick dinner recipe using ingredients you have on hand. It’s also a great way to create healthy meals using fresh ingredients and free yourself from the kitchen faster than following a written recipe would ever...
Seafood Paella is a Quick Easy Dinner Made in One Pan
What is a quick easy dinner I can make in one pan? is a question most often asked of me. While I know the expected answer is a recipe, they’d be asking the wrong person for a recipe. I’ve been urging people to “Burn Your Recipes” through my online cooki...
Spritz Cookies – It’s All In The Bagging!
Spritz cookies are my favorite cookie at the holidays. I don’t make them any other time of the year, just as I don’t watch “A Christmas Carol” or “The Grinch” in July. These cookies bring back strong childhood memories for me, mostly of my Mom’s frustra...
Salmon Gravlax Roses Make an Attractive Holiday Appetizer
Gravlax Roses can make a simple and attractive holiday appetizer from dry-cured salmon. Whether you cure the salmon yourself, or just purchase it, my simple procedure can be the focus of a fancy appetizer selection that only you know was quite simple.
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