Cooking Basics
How to Make Pumpkin Puree
Homemade Pumpkin Puree How-to Video The first thing you gotta to do is getcha the right kinda pumpkin. You want what’s called a “pie pumpkin” or a “sugar pumpkin”, not the giant jack-o’lantern pumpkins that are floating around the stores this time of year. Pie pumpkins are smallish, less than 10″ across, dark orange, and…
Read MoreHow to Preserve Fresh Herbs
Three easy ways to preserve fresh herbs. Watch the video and read the tips below. Check out the Home and Garden for Mere Mortals channel for more tips! Drying Herbs Drying herbs is probably the easiest and most hands-off method. Drying works best with strong-flavored herbs like oregano, rosemary, thyme, lavender, tarragon, dill, mint and…
Read MoreGazpacho Andaluz
Gazpacho Recipe Video – scroll down for printable recipe Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notified of new videos. I got this gazpacho recipe from a friend in Spain, at the same time he taught me to make seafood paella, actually. It took me a long time to make gazpacho, clearly, but once I…
Read MoreNew Series on Food Education! How to Pick a Watermelon
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be contributing one video a month to the new-ish YouTube channel Home and Garden for Mere Mortals. My series will focus on food education, including basic tips for choosing produce, simple preservation methods and seasonal topics. The first is How to Pick a Watermelon (and a tip for picking…
Read MoreHow to cook bacon in the oven
A simple way to cook bacon in the oven to save space on your stove top or to neatly cook a large amount of bacon at once. Use this method to cook thick cut bacon or thin-cut. The time will be shorter for thinner bacon. Some people like to cook the bacon on a rack,…
Read MoreStrawberries with Coconut Cream
Strawberries with Coconut Cream video – scroll down for recipe Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notified of new videos. Whipped coconut cream is a damn miracle food. As long as you like coconut, you will love coconut cream. It’s easy to make and it lasts a hell of a lot longer than whipped…
Read MoreHow to Hull Strawberries
How to Hull Strawberries video Since I evidently have just a TON of time on my hands and am a super boring person, I decided to do some comparing of different ways to hull strawberries and really get to the bottom of this age-old question: How to hull strawberries the absolute best way. Can you…
Read MoreHow to Stock a Pantry
Although the subject of how to stock a pantry is covered in depth in an entire chapter of my Learn to Cook book (ahem, makes a great gift!) I hadn’t yet made a video about it. So here it is: how to stock a pantry. This is just the bare-bones beginner-level pantry: what I think are the most…
Read MoreThrow a French-themed Brunch Party!
Everything you need to throw a French-themed brunch party without spending a bunch of money on decorations you’ll only use once and champagne that’s beyond your reach. So that you can (and will) have your own French Brunch, here are all the steps in order to make your party go as smoothly as possible. 2-4…
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