One of the complaints I hear most often from people is that while the cooking is ok, the cleaning afterward makes them crazy. I get it, I really do. You’ve made a meal for everyone, they’ve eaten (or not), and then you either have to kick back into high gear for cleaning OR have to do bedtime duty. You finally get the kids to sleep and then you face a messy kitchen when all you…
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The other day I was talking on Facebook Live about this great analogy I heard the amazing cookbook author and food writer Mark Bittman use—he said that learning to cook is like learning to drive. When you are learning to drive you can’t have any distractions and every single action and movement is almost overwhelming, but that as you become a more comfortable and confident driver, some of it becomes more natural and it becomes…
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Timesaving Cooking Tricks to Get Family Dinner on the Table from Aviva Goldfarb, The Six O’Clock Scramble
What Do Different Chopping Terms Mean? It can be confusing knowing the sometimes-subtle differences between chopped, finely chopped, diced, and minced. The chopping definitions, in order of size of the final product go this way: Chop: This means things just need to be made smaller but not necessarily perfectly even Coarsely chopped is even more forgiving than chopped Dice: Try to make the pieces more uniform and smaller than a chop Finely Dice: This is…
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Do you ever feel like you’re trying to cut through a tomato with the back of a comb? If you’re like me, you probably purchased a few knives soon after your wedding, before you knew much about slicing and chopping, let alone cooking. If you’re like so many people I know, you’ve hardly sharpened them since. If you are straining your muscles and patience trying to saw through a squash or melon, you may not…
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