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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: How to Make Flour Tortillas
Tuesday, May 4, 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 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...Kitchen Techniques: Knife Cuts
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
We’ve talked about the very basics in knife techniques which is how to hold a knife properly. Now lets talk about the cuts that are used in cooking. There are different types of cuts and great tips to make cutting easier or more like how the pros do it. When getting ready to cut, the first [...]
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.
Continue reading...Cooking Technique: Spherification
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Taking a liquid and turning it into a semi-solid sphere, that when eaten will burst in your mouth, is called spherification. Spherification comes from the Spanish word “Esferificación,” and is a technique invented by Ferran Adrià. This technique looks like it would be complicated to do, but once you see how to do it, it suddenly seems much more manageable!
Continue reading...Cooking Technique: Sauté
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Of all the cooking techniques out there, one of the most useful things that can be learned in the kitchen is how to sauté. This kitchen technique is used frequently with many recipes as well as when you want to get something cooked quickly and healthily. This method of cooking is a great way to keep more nutrients and flavor, not to mention more vibrant color.
Continue reading...Cooking Technique: Wonton Folding
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The Chinese New Year is upon us (February 14th), and what better way to celebrate it than to learn the technique of folding wontons?
Continue reading...Cooking Techniques: Uramaki Sushi
Monday, February 8, 2010
This video was shot by the MiK team at the Craft Fair in Milan. It shows a great technique for making Uramaki Sushi! The sushi chef in the video works so quickly and makes a perfect sushi roll. It's amazing the skill it must require to make such a beautiful dish with such speed and accuracy!
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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