Today is the day! Real Food How To: Recipes To Teach You How To Cook From Scratch is now available on Amazon. This book has been a labor of love, and I'm so excited for you to crack it open and learn something new! Inside you'll find 20 chapters, each devoted to teaching you one real food skill in the kitchen. These are arranged to take you through your entire day, from breakfast to dinner, and there's something for everyone. Most of these skills can be taught to beginning cooks, … [Read more...]
Real Food How To: Break The Rules
We've come to the end of the Real Food How To blog series. In fact, the cookbook will be here on Thursday! It's a little bit surreal to me, to think that this book started as a simple question from a friend about how to cook dried beans, and now here we are. You can see all of the posts in this series here. Through all of these tutorials and recipes, I hope that you have learned some new kitchen skills. I hope that you have tried some new flavor combinations. But most of all, I hope … [Read more...]
How I Store Pantry Staples
When I'm putting things away in my pantry, function usually wins over form. I need it to work more than I need it to look pretty. But I do still enjoy seeing things lined up neat and tidy, and I try to choose containers and storage options that look nice, even if they don't all match. Here are some of the ways I store my pantry staples. Jars! Some canning jars I purchased when they were on sale. I also saved some old applesauce jars, although the best price on applesauce where we shop … [Read more...]
How To Save Produce Before It Goes Bad
We've all had it happen. You pull open the veggie drawer in your refrigerator to find a wilted, liquidy mass of spinach. Or your tomatoes are growing fuzz on the counter. Or your bananas have gone beyond ripe into fruit fly heaven. But there are ways to save that produce, even if you're not sure what you want to use it for in the future. Freeze it. This is my favorite way to save produce, because you can freeze almost anything! Most of the time, if I have something extra I'm not going … [Read more...]
How To Freeze Things So They Don’t Stick Together
One of the easiest ways to save something from going bad, or save it for a later time, is to freeze it. But sometimes freezing things ends up making more work or more wasted food, because everything sticks together and it's hard to use. Here's how I freeze things so that they don't stick together. Use overlapping layers. When you're freezing something with a bunch of smaller pieces, it can be tempting to just stack them all. Don't do that! You won't be able to separate the pieces … [Read more...]