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Cooking Techniques: Grilling and BBQ Cooking Terms
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: Kitchen Jargon Part II
Tuesday, May 18, 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
Tuesday, May 11, 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...Interview With FoodGeekery!
Friday, April 23, 2010
Today we are getting to know Jason of Food Geekery. This food blog is about real food from a real geek. Jason used to be a picky eater but has found a new love for food that has helped him become healthy just by changing his eating habits from processed foods to real food and learning how to cook. As in good geek form, Jason not only looks at the basics but delves deeper into such things as how to make yogurt (coming soon!) and a fabulous homemade oreo with half the ingredients!
Continue reading...Cooking Technique: Homemade Pasta
Tuesday, April 20, 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...Interview With Eat. Live. Travel. Write.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Today we are getting to know more about Mardi of Eat. Live. Travel. Write. A full time French teacher to elementary school boys and a part-time PhD student in Toronto. Mardi lets us into her life by sharing her mission for the perfect Macaron, the pursuit of a school cooking club for the students she teaches, as well as recipes she loves and places she loves to visit!
Continue reading...ChopChop Gets Kids Interested in Food
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Savour are all food filled magazines that if you aren’t a food enthusiast just one look in them will at the very least get those creative kitchen juices flowing. There are plenty of other publications catering to adults who love food but now there is new food magazine to get children interested as well.
Continue reading...Made in Kitchen Cooking Class: Oriental Cuisine
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Thanks to the Tetro7 and Made in Kitchen collaboration, tomorrow will be the next live online cooking class! This week’s class will be about oriental cuisine where Chef Richard Mora will be teaching us how to prepare Sliced Beef with Vegetables and Crispy Rice with Coconut.
Continue reading...Cooking Technique: Poaching Eggs
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Easter is coming up and that means Sunday brunch and meals with eggs. Eggs are usually pretty easy to make, but one way to cook eggs that can be a challenge is poaching. Poaching is done by simmering food in a liquid, usually water, milk, wine or stock.
Continue reading...Cooking Technique: Crystallizing Flowers
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
It’s spring, and although most flowers aren’t blooming yet, why not learn how we can incorporate flowers into food so we are already prepared when it’s time! Crystallized flowers are one way to not only make your decorative flowers look beautiful but also to preserve them.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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