Cooking 101

Homemade Fritata

How To Make a Frittata

January 13, 2012

It seems like I have many stories involving frittatas. But really, it’s just two. For starters my dad used to make them a lot. He’d always put in leftover bread or pasta or even rice. While he called it a frittata, his were really more similar to a Spanish tortilla because they’d end up being [...]

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Pepperoni Pizza

Homemade Pizza … At Home!

December 28, 2011

I never made pizza at home before shooting this episode. I also had never had such delicious, perfect pizza anywhere before shooting this episode. Thanks to Brandon of Via 313 pizza, I now can make my own wicked-good pizza at home ANY TIME I WANT TO (provided I have a premonition to make the dough the [...]

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Roast Chicken

How to Roast a Chicken

December 19, 2011

Or better yet, WHY to roast a chicken Oh, but there’s a litany of reasons, my dear — all based upon the presumption that you, my sweet, are not opposed to eating chicken — nay, that you even love eating chicken. 1. Roasting a chicken is the easiest way to cook a whole chicken. Very [...]

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Easy Cheesy Omelet

December 9, 2011

Evidently I’m on a French-kick this week. Duxelles, puff pastry, wine (secretly, of course). What’s next?! I grow a skinny moustache and start reciting poetry at a quaint sidewalk cafe?! Sacre bleu! BUT, we are rapidly approaching EPISODE 100, y’all! I swore to myself that by episode 100 I’d have ALL the basics covered in [...]

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Homemade Butter Pie Crust

Butter Pie Crust

November 22, 2011

Pie crust has a bad reputation, but it needn’t. There are only three absolute requirements to any pie crust: fat, flour, and liquid and once you understand the science behind it you’ll be making kick-ass pie crusts every time, all the time. The first step of pie crust making is very much like the first [...]

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Cranberry Sauce Recipe

Homemade Cranberry Sauce Is Easy!

November 15, 2011

Cranberries grow in bogs. Bogs are like swamps. I’ve always had a thing for bogs and swamps. Did you know all that? For a while after college, I considered going to graduate school to study either parasitic plants or bogs and swamps. I got my bachelor’s degree in botany and really, with a degree like [...]

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Hot Dog Stir-Fry

June 29, 2011

This recipe is dedicated to all the single people, all the poor people, and also all the people that just really love hot dogs. It’s actually a recipe from my new book: Learn To Cook! Well, actually actually, it’s from one of the bonus guides that you get for free if you buy the book [...]

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