When we were talking about Cooking with Water, one of the major advantages we talked about was the ability to maintain a constant cooking temperature because of water’s boiling point at 212oF (100oC). This can also be a limitation in…
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Ingredient Spotlight: Kale
Kale is a wonderful vegetable that is extremely hearty and nutritious. Recently, they’ve become the rage in all sorts of dishes especially as a replacement for other greens. While this may be a fad for the moment, it’s not a…
A Crisis Worth Buzzing About
The practice of beekeeping is the harvesting of excess honey produced by the bees which will not be consumed during the winter months. Inherent in this one statement encompasses an incredible number of concepts including by not limited to husbandry,…
Water Baths
Sometimes you are caught unprepared or overlook small steps in prep, which may set back your cooking significantly. Sometimes this is fairly innocuous like forgetting to put a bottle of something in the fridge to chill for your guests. Other…
Preventing Freezer Burn
Last weekend, my cousin Linda and I went to visit my good friends Mai and Roger who were introduced to me by another good friend Yuh-line, for a fun ski and snowboarding trip out in Mt. Baker. One of the…
Waste Not – Give Half
The issue of poverty and hunger is a big one in our society today. Food is important not just for its nutritional aspects, but also for personal, social, and community building. Fact is though, despite being one of the wealthiest…
Contraband Peanut Butter
How much do you love your food, and how far would you go to protect your precious cargo while traveling? Would you be willing to risk federal incarceration and also take on the TSA (the “jolly bunch of inept iPad-stealing…
Quick Tip: Regenerating Scallions
Scallions (aka green onions) are a great ingredient to add to your dishes either as a garnish, or a component of the recipe. If your recipe calls for onion, this could be a more subtle substitute. Vegetables are expensive though,…
Basics: Cooking with Water
What is water? We often take this odd substance for granted, and because we take it for granted, we rarely think of it as odd. Still though, it is one of the few substances that defies the consistency of physics…
DIY Butter
Last week, I wrote a quick tip on making flavored (aka compound) butter, and it got me thinking why people insist on, as a standard, using softened, but not melted butter. Sometimes we just follow convention and accept it for…