Looking For the Right Tool for the Right Cooking Task? You don’t necessarily have to buy the most expensive, but you definitely want to buy quality. Below are some of the tools I use in my kitchen. Just click on the link to learn more about what it is, what it does, what to consider when buying and some online resources.
My pastry (baking) scraper is one of my favorite tools in our kitchen and my daughters know it too. My oldest daughter wrote this post on the many ways we use our pastry scraper at home. The Many Uses of a Kitchen Bakery Scraper by Nell Jones The scraper. One of the most popular tools […]
Having the Right Equipment Makes a Difference Saucier A saucepan whose sides curve up gently from the bottom as opposed to having a completely flat bottom and straight sides. This makes it much easier to cover the entire bottom of the pan when stirring a sauce with a wooden spoon or a whisk. And the […]
The Importance of Good Kitchen Equipment Before You Start a Recipe Mistake #6 – Not Having the Right Equipment As part of reading the recipe and getting your mise en place together, you should also have inventoried your cooking equipment. While it is acceptable to make some substitutions with equipment – using a sauté pan […]
The Difference Between a Dutch Oven & a Camp Dutch Oven A couple of weekends ago, we were in central Pennsylvania for the annual Apple Butter day at our friend, LaRue’s home. We stand around all day stirring a giant copper pot filled with fresh apple cider and bushels and bushels of peeled, cored […]
What Type Of Cooking Pan For Veal Marsala? This is my third post describing how to make the very best veal Marsala at home using my friend Chef Ricco’s recipe. You can find the the actual Veal Marsala recipe here and my post describing the various ingredients used in this dish called Veal Marsala Ingredients. […]
The Advantages of Using Sous Vide Water Balls I recently purchased a bag of sous vide water balls and love them. They are used to help keep the heat in the container when using the sous vide cooking technique to cook steaks, poultry, seafood and vegetables. Do You Need Sous Vide Water Balls? I suppose […]
What Kitchen Gadgets Should You Bring to Your College Dorm? My oldest daughter is about to head off to college. It is her first year and we are trying to figure out what kitchen items, tools, gadgets she might need to help her transition. It’s been 40 years since I’ve been in college so I’m […]
Are Those GelPro Mats As Good As They Look? For years I’ve seen GelPro mats advertised in my cooking magazines and wondered if they were as good as the reviews I’ve read. Then, a few weeks ago, I was contacted by a representative from the company asking me to talk about their product and I […]
You Say Crock Pot, I Say Slow Cooker Slow Cookers You might know slow cookers by a trade name: Crock Pot. Crock Pot is a name like Thermos, Jello or Keenex, where a brand name has become synonymous with the product. But a Thermos is a “vacuum bottle,” and Kleenex are “facial tissues.” And a […]
Silicone Gloves With Better Design Many years ago I purchased my first pair of silicone gloves that worked well but were stiff and difficult to work with. Yes, I could stick my hand into a pot of boiling water to remove a cooked lobster but the problem was holding on to it. These gloves were […]
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How to Grill Your Turkey on a Gas Grill
Something Different – Grilling Your Turkey I wanted to share with you a novel way we cooked our turkey one year while we were still living in Park City, Utah. We grilled it on the barbecue. Now I’m sure many of you are saying to yourselves, “RG, get real. We’ve been grilling our bird for […]
Turkey Buying and Cooking Tips With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I thought you might enjoy talking turkey including some tips on choosing a bird and how to cook it. You would think cooking a turkey is not that big a deal but looking at all the articles in the current November issues of cooking […]
Moist Thanksgiving Turkey Tips
How To Roast A Perfectly Moist Turkey A whole turkey, perfectly cooked, juicy in thigh and breast and richly caramelized all over is a thing of beauty, but it is, indeed a rare bird. Turkeys are large, they have a big hole inside them. They are thick in some places and thinner in others. They […]
