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Cooking Techniques: Hollandaise Sauce
You’ve seen it spooned on top of poached eggs or over asparagus. It looks like a very light colored melted cheese sauce, but what it really is, however, is the infamous hollandaise sauce! This sauce is one that is fairly intimidating because not only is it French, but how can anything taste so incredible be easy to make?
Continue reading...Cooking Technique: Homemade Mustard
15. June 2010
A while back there was a lesson on how to make your own ketchup. Since condiments are something that can be used year round for many different things, mustard was obvious for our next how-to technique!
Continue reading...Cooking Techniques: Grilling and BBQ Cooking Terms
1. June 2010
It’s almost summer and that means grills and barbecues. Some of us still don’t know much about what all those kitchen terms means when people talk about out-door cooking. Today’s technique is about barbecue and grilling jargon. These terms are related to how to cook when cooking out doors and some of the equipment used.
Continue reading...Kitchen Technique: Choosing your Grill
25. May 2010
It’s that time of year, where we pull off the charcoal grill covers, go to the store and buy propane tanks and get all kinds of food that is great to throw on the barbecue. A lot of us don’t know how to use our grills properly though. In the first of our grilling techniques, we’re going to help you choose the grill that‘s right for your out-door kitchen!
Continue reading...Kitchen Technique: Kitchen Jargon Part II
18. May 2010
Last week we discussed a few of the culinary terms that you see in cook books or in the food industry. Culinary jargon can be confusing, so we want to help clear up some of that by defining some more terms for you this week!
Continue reading...Kitchen Technique: Kitchen Jargon Part I
11. May 2010
Regular cooking terms can be confusing. Isn’t creaming where you put cream in something? What is blanch? Isn’t that a woman’s name? Isn’t a frond some part of a plant? Well today’s technique is to demystify some of the cooking jargon that many may have no idea what it means!
Continue reading...Cooking Technique: How to Make Flour Tortillas
4. May 2010
Cinco De Mayo is this week (tomorrow to be precise) and in the spirit of the Mexican holiday, lets learn how to make homemade tortillas!
Continue reading...Cooking Technique: Homemade Ketchup!
27. April 2010
In continuing with the tomato theme, it just seemed right to have a technique today that had to do with tomatoes. Ketchup (catsup) is one of the most used condiments in the United States and also one of the most used forms of tomatoes.
Continue reading...Cooking Technique: Homemade Pasta
20. April 2010
Pasta is something that can be very easy to make from scratch and the taste is definitely worth the effort. Most of us don’t make our own though and that will be remedied with today’s technique. Today we learn how to make our own homemade pasta!
Continue reading...Cooking Technique: How to Preserve Food Through Pickling!
13. April 2010
Preserving foods has been going on for thousands of years in different forms to keep our food from spoiling. One of the main ways is to pickle your food, which not only preserves the food for later use, but can change the taste and texture of it.
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22. June 2010
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