Posted in In the Kitchen, WFMW, tagged cooking on May 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One thing that really works for me is to have some ‘Go To’ recipes, that I can turn to when time is short! For me, these are recipes that use pantry ingredients, go together quickly and are popular with my crew. I try to keep the ingredients for these recipes in my pantry/freezer at all [...]
Posted in In the Kitchen, tagged cooking on May 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Don’t measure! That seems counter-intuitive to being a good cook, but really the most important skill I think you can develop is learning what 2 tablespoons of oil look like, or a teaspoon of salt, etc. It speeds things up so much in the kitchen during preparing food and after with far fewer things to [...]
Posted in In the Kitchen, tagged cooking on May 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I love to use tenderized meat in recipes like Chicken Piccata and Steak Diane. I used to use plastic wrap to cover the meat and then hammer on it. It was not successful- the plastic shredded and by the third piece into the process there were bits of flesh all over the cabinets, counters and [...]
