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Resourceful Chefs

Things have been woeful around these parts lately, but that isn’t to say cooking hasn’t been happening & new recipes are not on the horizon. In the meantime, we wanted to share with you that as of late we’ve been finding many tasty (and healthy!) recipes in both Fitness magazine & Cooking Light- [...]

Dinner Party Tips

I think one of the most daunting things for an aspiring home-chef is making a meal for people outside of your immediate family, especially when you begin to move away from the “everyone bring a side dish” get-together & start hosting real, live dinner parties.  For a long time I’d only make something that cooked [...]

Staples

I really do have a red beans & rice post coming but every time I sit down to write it out, I realize I don’t have the recipe on me, and it is one that I’d prefer to give you some exact measurements on. However I’d like to talk about kitchen staples. There was an [...]

Boiling Eggs

It would seem that perfect hardboiled eggs should be as simple as boiling water. That said, it also seems that boiling a perfect hardboiled egg- for a salad topping, a base for egg salad, deviled eggs, or a simple breakfast item isn’t such a simple task. Under-boiled and you have runny or orange-tinged yolks that [...]

Tips of the Trade

As we ponder what’s cooking this week, here are a few easy kitchen tips to help your next culinary adventure!

Soaking shrimp, craw-fish, oysters & the like in cold saltwater for 20 minutes prior to washing & prepping can help get the grit out & make deveining easier.

 

Fresh herbs will last significantly longer if you store [...]

More Soon, Until Then…

Meatloaf will be concluded soon (with delicious meatloaf paninis!) and we will be getting back in the swing of things shortly- if you read our other blogs you know Katie was just off in Chicago for Blogher, while Daisy ran far far away to Utah to watch her brother get married. (The irony of Katie [...]