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April 11, 2012 Techniques
Old School Cooking Techniques
With the increasing popularity of the slow food/slow cooking movement, more and more chefs and home cooks are beginning to... Read more »
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March 21, 2012 Recipes
Spring Time Braising
Yesterday marked the first official day of spring. With the beautifully mild weather we've been having on the East Coast for... Read more »
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March 12, 2012 Recipes
Cooking with Coffee
While coffee and espresso based recipes are most often associated with sweeter dishes like tiramisu, there is much more that... Read more »
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March 9, 2012 Techniques
How to Bake Yeast Breads
For the next three weeks, I’ll be learning how to bake. It might seem easy to many of you, but I grew up in a household where... Read more »
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March 2, 2012 Techniques
How to Prepare Charcuterie
Back fat. I don’t want it on me, I don’t want it in my food. Unfortunately, this week we didn’t have much choice. We were... Read more »
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February 24, 2012 Techniques
Meat- It's What's for Dinner Part 2
Like my lessons for cooking poultry, last week and this week were all about how to prepare with dry and wet techniques. This... Read more »
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February 10, 2012 Techniques
How to Cook Poultry, Part 2
Week two of poultry was an interesting class. The reason? BRAISING!! This week was all about the wet, slow cooking of poultry.... Read more »
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January 13, 2012 Techniques
Cooking School Daze, Week 10, part 2
Crustaceans crawl around the bottom of the ocean eating all the stuff the other fish drop. Or at least that’s how I picture... Read more »
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December 23, 2011 Techniques
Cooking School Daze, Week 9
I eat fish a lot. I’m especially fond of buying fish that are deemed “Best Choices” from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s... Read more »
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December 9, 2011 Techniques
Cooking School Daze, Week 7
Last week, we worked with mostly raw ingredients in the fruits and vegetable category. This week, we took those ingredients a... Read more »
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December 2, 2011 Techniques
Cooking School Daze, Week 6
Now this week’s focus was my kind of food! With last week’s arterial clutter finally out of my veins (dairy and eggs), I... Read more »
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November 19, 2011 Reviews
What We've Been Reading
Love reading food blogs but never have the time to cook anything during the week? Check out Weekend Food Projects, a blog... Read more »
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November 18, 2011 Techniques
Cooking School Daze, Week 5, Part 2
I have eggs almost every morning for breakfast. I usually get the jumbo-sized, as I use mostly egg whites and want to get the... Read more »
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November 11, 2011 Techniques
Cooking School Daze, Week 5
I’m splitting this week’s class into two parts, as we covered two very involved subjects, dairy and eggs. These are both... Read more »
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October 28, 2011 Recipes
Cooking School Daze, Week 3
I know, you were expecting me to title this “No Soup For You,” but that would have been too obvious. Truth be told, there... Read more »


