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I recently began the “Stewing & Braising” section of my online cooking classes over at “America’s Test Kitchen.” Before I began, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this style of food preparation, but the more I learned, the more I realized that it’s actually a very economical and fun way to put […]

Whenever I talk about garlic knots with someone, we usually end up saying the same types of things. “Mmmm. Oh man. I love garlic knots!” I mean, honestly, who doesn’t really, really enjoy eating garlic knots? I recently found a recipe over at Tori Avey’s site, where Kelly Jaggers offered up a version of one […]

I recently began learning about oven roasting and just last night, I tried my hand at preparing one of my favorite foods – roasted potatoes. To be clear, I’ve made this type of potatoes dozens of times before, only to find out that I’ve created some sort of leathery golden brown “chunks.” I think I […]

I suppose you can look at this either of two ways – you can view spending money on kitchen tools and equipment as fun or you can dread the idea. I think I’m somewhere in the middle. For me, the tools that are used in the kitchen represent something that I “use,” therefore they have […]

Oh boy. If I had only known of these rules years ago, when I began sauteing. Or, should I say what I thought was sauteing. I often wondered why much of what I attempted to cook looked either under or over cooked. Things just never seemed right – as hard as I would try. After […]