If you are making a BLT, bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, you probably want nice flat pieces of bacon. Maybe you want a few flat pieces to place beside your waffles. If you are making breakfast for a crowd, cooking bacon on the stove takes time and attention. Not to mention a mess. Would you … Read more
How are your knife skills in the kitchen? Do you know what to do when a recipe calls for the onion to be minced? Is it different than dicing? How about a chiffonade? Do they all require different knife skills? Are you confident enough in your kitchen knife skills to teach the proper ones to … Read more
If you make candy, chances are you have a candy thermometer. It is just one of those essential kitchen tools that get used for a specific job. You probably assume it is always accurate. Right? Maybe not. Maybe you need to check your candy thermometer before you start your next batch of candy. Have you … Read more
It is dinner time and you are having pasta. First of all, you have cooked your pasta. If you are like most of us, you dump the cooked pasta into a colander with the water. That colander probably sits in the sink and the pasta water goes down the drain. That is a pretty common … Read more
Have you ever wondered about ricotta cheese? You might know it is an Italian cheese. But, what and how is it made? What can you use it in? Ricotta can technically be made from the milk of cows, sheep, goats, or water buffalo. Okay. That is a big variety. Usually, the ricotta we buy at … Read more