Cooking Basics
Easy Homemade Baby Food (without a blender!)
Easy Homemade Baby Food (scroll down for printable baby food recipes) I get asked daily what I’m feeding Chef Baby now that he’s old enough for solid food. I’ve been keeping his babyfood pretty simple (until we’re sure he’s not going to react to any foods) but not boring or bland because I want him to develop…
Read MoreHerbed Compound Butter Recipes
Herbed compound butter is one of the easiest, fastest, no-brainiest ways to fancify your life. Just take soft butter, add some fresh or dried herbs, some spices, some salt, some citrus zest, some onion relatives, some garlic, some ginger, some mustard, some miso, really just about any flavors you can imagine, and mash it all…
Read MoreEasy Peel Hard Boiled Eggs
Easy peel hard boiled eggs video Gah! Guess what we’ve all been boiling eggs the wrong way. Or I have at least. For years I touted this method of hard boiling eggs and while it certainly works fine, I’d still end up with 30% of my eggs being a serious pain in the ass to…
Read MoreHow to Cook Rice
Lots of people struggle with how to cook rice. I know because I hear about it every week. So to appease the masses and throngs of youngsters and oldsters who’ve requested help with rice, here is another video in the Learn to Cook series: How to cook rice on the stove, without a rice…
Read MoreSprouting Seeds & Beans – How to Grow Sprouts
In my time off, I’ve been experimenting more with sprouting. I know. It’s a wild life I lead. I’ve had this seed sprouting jar in my pantry for well over a decade now and had yet to use it. In a flurry of cleaning panic one day, I vowed to “sprout or get off the…
Read MoreTrifle Recipe — Christmas in England
English Trifle recipe Video (scroll down for printable recipe) Part seven in my Christmas Around the World series! Christmas in England, focus on: TRIFLE! The Trifle was one of my grandmother’s signature desserts. For as much as she loved to eat, she really did not enjoy cooking and rarely did it that I recall, except…
Read MoreLearn to Cook: How to Boil Eggs
Dear Friends, I have learned a lot about how to boil eggs since I made this video (in 2010!!) Visit this post for an easy-peel boiled eggs method. (It’s the only way I do them now.) How to Boil Eggs This is the fourth in a series of answer posts to reader-submitted questions. Some of these…
Read MoreBasic Risotto Recipe
Before we get to the risotto recipe (which is good, scout’s honor) I really should tell you something. Something embarrassing. I have no idea how to pronounce “risotto” correctly. I flip-flop between riz-O-to and riz-Ah-to constantly, trying to read the reactions of the people around me, to see if one or the other makes people nod…
Read MoreItalian Dressing Recipe
Who among us didn’t love the everloving crap out of some Kraft Zesty Italian Dressing when we were young? Truly, who among us doesn’t still love it? Ain’t no shame in that game! But it is easy and fast to make your own with higher quality (healthier) oil and honest-to-god fresh garlic to keep vampires…
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