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...Saturday, May 8, 2010
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day! We all love our mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, whoever the woman was that has taken care of us, taught us, nurtured us, fed us. That means tomorrow is the day to do the same sort of thing for her!
Continue reading...Thursday, April 29, 2010
In food television you see plenty of shows that feature recipes and how to cook, along with chefs going to different places in the world and food competitions. It’s rare to hear much about street food and food trucks in particular. Food Network has decided to listen to the foodies all over the country by doing a show on food trucks!
Continue reading...Thursday, April 15, 2010
You may have heard about the iPad, a new tablet computer by Apple, since it was announced in January. This new hand held computer function similarly to the iphone and can even use almost all of the third-party iPhone applications. The iPad is also a great tool in the kitchen!
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The British are better at cooking than the French. Please don’t kill the messenger! This is according to a survey done by the French magazine Madame Le Figaro and the BBC’s food magazine Olive.
Continue reading...Friday, March 19, 2010
When in the kitchen there are many things we have to do in order to prep our food before cooking it usually. When it comes to these culinary chores, people have seemed to have decided to take a culinary shortcut by getting vegetables that are already prepped such as peeled potatoes and carrots, cheese already grated or shredded, fruit already sliced. These food “cheats” are becoming more and more abundant in kitchens.
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
We keep hearing about food born illnesses, things are being recalled and we wonder what we can do to keep our families and ourselves safe.
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 2, 2010
What would you think about teaching children to learn how to grow fresh fruits and vegetables and how to cook at school? That's the sort of thing that was brought up in an article done in The Atlantic and then again on Serious Eats with two vastly different opinions.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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