Welcome back class for another installment of our cooking 101 series. In today’s lesson, I am going to teach you, folks, how to make cutlets out of a chicken breast. This is a great skill to know because a number of different recipes require chicken breast to be made into cutlets, plus it is relatively […]
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Fish tacos were one of the staples of my diet during my five years of college in San Diego. In truth, It wasn’t difficult falling in love with them, mainly due to the fact that they are served on just about every street corner. And, even though I no longer live in San Diego,
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If you have ever had a fish taco before then you have probably noticed that they are frequently accompanied by a light pink colored sauce poured over it. Maybe you’ve eaten those tacos and said to yourself, “man that sauce is good, but what the hell is it?”. Well, to be honest, the
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If you’ve read enough of my recipe posts, then you may have figured out that I have a basic formula for writing them. Typically I like to start them off with a couple of paragraphs. The first ones I use as a hook, while the latter ones are used to relay information about the dish.
Hello class, and welcome to part 2 of our lessons on knives. In our last lesson, we discussed the many different types of knives used in the kitchen, and what they were generally used for. In today’s lesson, we will be discussing knife safety, how to properly slice with a chef’s knife, and the
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I have to confess that the dishes that I cook for myself rarely look as good as the photos that I post on this blog. I’m not saying that I go out of my way to make them look horrible, but when cooking for my family I just don’t care about making my
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I’m of the opinion that you can’t really call a pie “homemade” if it doesn’t have a homemade crust. Now, I’m sure some of you might be sitting there saying “Patrick, who made you the final arbiter on what supposedly constitutes a true homemade pie? If I can make the filling from scratch and
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Today I decided to dig out one of the oldest recipes from my personal recipe book, sausages with peppers & onions. It was one of the first recipes I truly learned to master during my time in college because it has what I consider the “Holy Trinity” of recipe qualities. What is the “Holy
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Aloo Gobi is one of my all-time favorite dishes to order when I eat out at my favorite Indian restaurant. It is a standard of Indian cuisine, consisting of two main ingredients, potatoes (aloo), and cauliflower (gobi), hence its name Aloo gobi. The dish itself is often prepared by cutting the potatoes and cauliflower
You know what class, I’m tired of all the bad rap that potatoes get from most people. I’m not talking about people having a dislike for potatoes, but rather that most people view potatoes as being unhealthy, and providing no nutritional value. But I’m telling you that nothing could be further from the truth,
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