Sometimes you come across a word in a recipe and you know exactly what it means. And sometimes, you kind of have to guess from context. Here are a few common kitchen words and what they really mean (related terms are in the parentheses). photo credit Al Dente – cooked to a … [Read more...]
Real Food How To: Blanch Veggies
If you've ever had a garden, you know that you don't completely control when your produce is ready to pick. Sometimes, that means you only get a handful of spinach or berries at a time. And sometimes, that means you get several baskets full of snap peas, all at once. When … [Read more...]
Real Food How To: Make A Roux and White Sauce
We all have them: that list of kitchen skills or recipes that just intimidate us. And for the longest time, this was one of mine. Making a roux. Except that at the time I didn't even know that word for it. I just knew it as "the white sauce that makes Alfredo". (Even that … [Read more...]
Real Food How To: Cook Quinoa
When we started eating mostly gluten free, I wanted to look for other options for getting grains in our diet. Something to help round out the meal, and provide a filling option without breaking the budget. But most of these were things I had never heard of, and there was one in … [Read more...]
Real Food How To: Flip A Pancake (Plus Oat Flour Pancake Recipe!)
On Tuesday I mentioned that Jesse taught me how to cook eggs, and I have to give him credit today too: he taught me how to flip a pancake without messing it up constantly. He always jokes that he married me because I can play the piano, and I joke that I married him so that he … [Read more...]