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Category Archives: cooking basics

3 No Recipe Uses For The Season’s Best Strawberries

No recipe will tell me what to do when it’s strawberry season. It’s one of the great seasonal joys in fresh food, and I take full advantage of the short time. The best strawberries come from your local farm, local farmer, local rain and soil. I celebrate the beginning of strawberry season with a visit

Don’t Leave Shirred Eggs Off Your Menu For Brunch

If you’re writing a menu for brunch, don’t forget Shirred Eggs. They’re extremely simple, can be made well in advance, and make a great table presentation. People love foods in individual serving dishes. In my many years of Catering, I’ve seen the trends come and go, but high visual appeal never goes out of style.

Your Fresh Asparagus Shouldn’t Have a Woody

…stem that is. Fresh asparagus is a beautiful thing to behold. This nutritious vegetable gives great eye-appeal, is highly nutritious, and said to be one of the aphrodisiac foods. But, asparagus that winds up in the garbage can is not pleasing to the eye, has zero nutrition for you and won’t turn anybody on. With

Who Is Fresher?
Healthiest Foods ARE The Freshest.

It would make sense that the healthiest foods are the ones that are closest to harvest, those that are allowed to receive the most nutrients from growing in the soil. Nutrients dissipate quickly from stored vegetables. The further from harvest, or if not allowed to ripen completely, the less nutritious the item will be. However,

All Cooking Questions Answered in My Next LIVE WebCast.

Register for the FREE LIVE Cooking Webcast. Last month’s “Whip Up Dinner” webcast was such a great success mostly because of the one-on-one interaction we enjoyed during the question and answer segment. When it ended, the number one question was “When are you going to do this again?”. I enjoyed taking questions so much, that

9 Steps to Great Low Carb Cooking From Home

You don’t need a recipe to achieve great low carb cooking from home. It only takes one basic cooking method and the ingredients you desire.

Ethnic Profiling Is The Key to Cooking With Spices

Combine your spices into ethnic teams or to match specific foods for the most flavor from your cooking.

Cake Mixing Like the Pros with the Two-Stage Method

Cake Mixing is much more important than cake baking. The Two-Stage method is used by professionals for great results.

Your Butter Cake Recipes Will Fail Without The Creaming Method

Your butter cake recipe will be the best ever if you follow these necessary steps to mix it up right.

It’s Angel Food Cake Hell If You Mix It Wrong!

You’ll be in Angel Food cake hell if you don’t use the correct mixing method for this heavenly fat-free dessert.

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