Your Cooking Companion

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July 28, 2018

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About Cookware--You don't need "The Best"
Most of my cooking life, I have coveted expensive cookware. My ego was in charge, and I wanted my cookware
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Your Personal Carry-Along Cookbook
A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be able to cook my favorite (but not memorized) recipes from
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The Hidden Ingredients in Every Recipe, Part 1 of 3
When you were first learning to cook, did anyone encourage you to read all the way through the recipe before
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Shopping Smart
For the first half of the 20th century, grocery shopping required stops at several specialty shops: Meat from the butcher,
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Imitation Vanilla: Surprise!
Many of us highbrow snobby cooks will only use real vanilla extract. We wouldn’t sully our cooking or our reputations
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Natural or Dutch-Process? Which Cocoa Powder to Use??
No, they’re not the same. What if your recipe doesn't specify what kind to use? Different chemical properties means they
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Bill Penzey--Cooking as Art
"So much of what we are comes from our hands. Every time we cook and work with our hands to
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Measuring Flour--The Right Way
It seems like such a simple thing. Scoop the flour into a measuring cup and dump it into your baking
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About Cast Iron
If you’re already using cast iron, most of the info I’m about to impart won’t be new to you. But
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The Hidden Ingredients in Every Recipe, Part 1 of 3
When you were first learning to cook, did anyone encourage you to read all the way through the recipe before
READ MORE