I love spicy food, so much so that I have a tendency to cover most of my meals with heavy sprinkles of crushed chili peppers. However, through many years of experience, I have come to find one major problem with store-bought crushed chili peppers. They tend to decrease in spiciness over time. Sure they […]
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Hello class, today I want to discuss one of my favorite techniques for the grill, wood planking. No, I’m not talking about that stupid social media fad that happened a couple of years ago (you know the one I’m talking about), I’m talking about the method of using planks of untreated wood to
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Hello class, and welcome to the third and last part of our lessons on knives. In the previous two lessons, we looked at the different types of knives, and how to properly use them in the kitchen. For today’s lesson, we are going to discuss knife maintenance, or more specifically, how to properly store,
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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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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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Hello class and welcome to the latest installment in our Cooking 101 series, Knives: Anatomy & Types. Because there is so much to discuss when it comes to knives, I have decided that this will be the first of three lessons concerning them. For today’s lesson, we will keep it simple and explore the
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If you are a new cook and haven’t spent a lot of time in the kitchen, then chances are you often get confused by the many different cooking terms used in recipes. Don’t feel ashamed or embarrassed that you don’t know all of the lingo, we all had to learn it from someone at
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When I came up with the idea for this blog I did it with the intention to help teach everyone, no matter their experience level, not only how to cook, but also to be inspired to cook at home. So many other blogs had done that for me, but I often found that
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