More Common Mistakes When It Comes to Herbs & Spices Mistake #2 Keeping Herbs and Spices Forever Most of us have a dark, dusty corner of our spice cabinet where old spices go to die. You know the place. It’s where you keep the rarified spices that you bought to make a special dish for […]
How NOT to Season Foods – Common Seasoning Mistakes & How to Avoid Them Spices and seasonings are our passport to a whole world of flavor possibilities. We are very lucky that we live in a time when a host of spices are readily available for our use and experimentation. In the past, wars have […]
Even More Common Baking Mistakes & How to Avoid Them Mistake #4 – Over or Under Filling Your Pans Once all your mise en place is taken care of, your oven is well preheated and your pans are prepared, it’s imperative to fill the pans with the right amount of batter. If you overfill the […]
More Common Baking Mistakes & How to Avoid Them You can find Part 1 of How NOT to Bake here. This is Part 2 and looks at improper measuring and not knowing your oven as well as you think you do. Mistake #2 – Improper Measuring Some recipes are written in fairly straightforward terms: one […]
Common Baking Mistakes & How to Avoid Them At first glance, baking seems like a fairly straightforward cooking process. The definition of baking is to cook food with dry heat in an oven. The process is simple: Open oven, put in food, take out baked food. In practice, as with most cooking methods, there is […]
More Common Braising Mistakes & How to Avoid Them Braising is one of the best ways I know to turn a less expensive cut of meat into something sublime. This is the second post on common braising mistakes and how to avoid them. To read my first post go to How NOT to Braise – […]
Common Braising Mistakes & How to Avoid Them Braising is a moist heat cooking method that is very forgiving. Like I always say, “You could braise an old leather baseball glove in beef stock and it would taste good with enough time.” A braise can be done on the stove-top or in the oven. Some […]
More Pan Roasting Mistakes & How to Avoid Them Here are some more Pan Roasting mistakes home cooks sometimes make. You can find Mistakes 1, 2 & 3 here. Mistake #4 The Cold Pan Sometimes, when trying to make a quick and nutritious meal at the end of a long day, we tend to rush […]
Common Mistakes Home Cooks Make When Pan Roasting Now that we having talked about How NOT to Roast your favorite foods, let’s talk about one of my favorite cooking techniques – Pan Roasting. Pan roasting is a chef’s technique that is only starting to come out of the professional kitchen and into the home kitchen. […]
Even More Common Roasting Mistakes & How to Avoid Them This is Part 3 of How NOT to Roast. Part 1 gets into the history of roasting and some of the preferences you have when deciding to cook a roast like to sear or not to sear, bone in or bone out, that sort of […]
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How to Make the Best Beef Wellington This Beef Wellington recipe has become a tradition in our house. We prepare it every couple of years for Christmas and made it again this year. If I’m lucky, we will have it next year and the year after that. My wife originally found a recipe in Fine […]
Christmas Standing Rib Roast Thanksgiving is a holiday in which turkey really shines. Many of you would rather not deal with another turkey just four weeks after Thanksgiving. Some of you might still have some frozen leftovers. The Christmas meal is a celebratory meal, and as such, celebration food is a natural at the Christmas […]
How to Bake A Ham For Christmas
Baked Christmas Ham Recipe Would you like to serve a wonderfully flavorful and juicy ham for the holidays? Here’s a can’t-go-wrong recipe that will have your guests asking for seconds, and for a plate of leftovers, as well. Be sure to read about the history of serving ham on Christmas and the various types of […]
