Ingredients & Techniques - Recipe Essentials
You can't cook without ingredients - and techinque is essential to using them - so here's a collection of favorite ingredients both unusual and made from scratch to spice up as well as tips on cooking techniques to add a little "Bam!" to your cooking.
Caramelized Onions: A Culinary Swiss Army Knife
Caramelized onions are both deeply savory and delightfully sweet, these onions are one of my staples. I use them to top steaks, chicken, lamb, mix them with green beans or roasted squash, or make French onion dip.
Caramelized onions are both deeply savory and delightfully sweet, these onions are one of my staples. I use them to top steaks, chicken, lamb, mix them with green beans or roasted squash, or make French onion dip.
Cooking Measure Conversions
Frankly, I can never remember if it's 3 tablespoons to a quarter of a cup (it's not) or 3 teaspoons to a tablespoon (it is). So this handy converter is invaluable in reducing recipes.
Frankly, I can never remember if it's 3 tablespoons to a quarter of a cup (it's not) or 3 teaspoons to a tablespoon (it is). So this handy converter is invaluable in reducing recipes.
Is Your Diet Healthy?
Take this nutrition quiz to find out how healthily you're eating.
Take this nutrition quiz to find out how healthily you're eating.
A Cook's Glossary
A Cook's Glossary is is an extensive list of definitions ranging from achiote to zwieback.
A Cook's Glossary is is an extensive list of definitions ranging from achiote to zwieback.
Reuben Braid Bread How-to
This Reuben Braid makes a truly impressive display for a casual buffet party (Super Bowl, anyone?) and can be made the day before.
This Reuben Braid makes a truly impressive display for a casual buffet party (Super Bowl, anyone?) and can be made the day before.
Garlic Bread: Mellow, Crunchy, Delicious
I guarantee this is the best garlic bread you've ever eaten - loads of garlic flavor but mild and mellow with a great crunch.
I guarantee this is the best garlic bread you've ever eaten - loads of garlic flavor but mild and mellow with a great crunch.
Blue Cheese Dressing: Different, Delicious, Deadly
This recipe for blue cheese dressing is for blue cheese lovers only, it will knock your socks off.
This recipe for blue cheese dressing is for blue cheese lovers only, it will knock your socks off.
Mediterannean Ingredients
It's easy, when cooking, to focus on the main item, to concentrate on the chicken in the paprikas or the leeks in the vichysoisse. But the ingredients we add in preparing these dishes are as important as the focus.
It's easy, when cooking, to focus on the main item, to concentrate on the chicken in the paprikas or the leeks in the vichysoisse. But the ingredients we add in preparing these dishes are as important as the focus.
Mushroom Duxelles: Intense and Refined
This recipe for mushroom duxelles produces an intensely flavored sautéed mushroom and shallot mixture. I was introduced to the concoction when I first made Beef Wellington, a classic use of this semi-paste. Makes 1 cup.
This recipe for mushroom duxelles produces an intensely flavored sautéed mushroom and shallot mixture. I was introduced to the concoction when I first made Beef Wellington, a classic use of this semi-paste. Makes 1 cup.