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The Joy of Slow Cooked Scrambled Eggs
The Los Angeles Times Food Section featured an article about the often neglected joy of slowly cooking your scrambled eggs. Indeed, scrambled eggs has always been seen as a quickie meal, so we really forget that eggs become a completely different meal when cooked slowly. Like eggs served at your favorite expensive brunch restaurant.
"If you slow things down a bit, you can turn scrambled eggs into something spectacular: Cooked very slowly, and stirred constantly, scrambled eggs can be a dish that's creamy, rich and luxurious enough to serve as a first course at an elegant dinner.
Try it once, and you may never do the quick scramble again. Try it twice, and you'll never fret again about a brunch menu."
Lower the flame, slow down the scramble and transform eggs into pure bliss | via LA Times
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October 26, 2005 Cooking Comments (0)
Top 10 Chicken Recipes
Visit Chefs.com to view their recent Top 10 Chicken recipes list. There are some good standards there like Mediterranean Baked Chicken, Jerk Chicken, and Waldorf Chicken Salad. Just wish they had photos of each dish.
October 2, 2005 Cooking Comments (0)
Search All Internet Recipes Sites in One Click
Tired of searching for a recipe online by hopping from one recipe site to another? Check out FoodieView.com, a new recipe search engine that will search all online recipes sites for the recipe you're looking for.
The site also helps narrow your search results by specific ingredients, type of dish and cuisine, and even by chef name. It's a great tool that will help simplify your recipe searches. FoodieView even includes a "recipe box" feature that lets you save your favorite recipes.
Visit FoodieView.com. It's free, too!
September 9, 2005 Cooking Comments (0)
Secrets of the Perfect Burger by Nancy Silverton
What better time to have a burger than on a Labor Day weekend barbeque. Nancy Silverton of Campanile and La Brea Bakery talks about her love of "one of the great American dishes", and shares her recipe and preparation secrets in "The Perfect Burger".
What surprised me was her desired fat content of 20 - 28% fat for her burger. I knew I always wanted a fattier burger than lean, but 28%? Sounds delicious, if not a bit higher fat content than I ever would have thought to try.
Read more at "The Perfect Burger" via Los Angeles Times
September 2, 2005 Chef News, Cooking Comments (0)
Are You Using Enough Salt in Your Cooking?
Professional chef and writer, Emily Kaiser, raises some good points about when and how much salt to use when cooking on her website. Her points certainly help us in using salt a bit more boldly in our cooking. She quotes Thomas Keller of The French Laundry and Per Se, "Salt is the new olive oil."
Read "Chefs who salt early if not often" via The Food Section
August 10, 2005 Cooking Comments (0)
Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Cooking
When you're a food lover and like spending time in the kitchen, you're probably always looking for ways to add to your skills. And when you see articles like "Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Cooking", you just have to read it, don't you? What's even better is that you find out there's some things on that list you do already.
See Fine Cooking Magazine's 10 cooking tips.
July 27, 2005 Cooking, Kitchen & Cooking Tips Comments (0)
Christmas Cookie Recipes
From epicurious.com, see these Christmas cookie recipes from Gourmet magazine. Plus, these holiday cookie recipes from '02 Gourmet magazine.
Visit Cooking Light's website for their cookie recipe countdown - a new cookie recipe a day until Christmas.
RECOMMENDED READING - Baking Illustrated: A Best Recipe Classic & Big Fat Cookies
December 1, 2004 Christmas, Cooking Comments (1)
Around the World with Cooking Schools
Billed as "The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Schools", join Travel and Leisure Magazine as they give you an international tour of cooking schools. Plus see their list of top wine courses, professional culinary schools, hotel cooking programs, and more.
November 29, 2004 Cooking, Education, Food & Wine Country Travel Comments (1)
Tips for Buying a Turkey
Yesterday, I met a man who has been deep frying turkeys for over 40 years. We talked alot about turkey and he gave me some great tips. His first tip was to buy smaller turkey hens. Hens, it seems, have bigger thighs, legs and breasts. They are more tender because they are also younger and smaller, and it's best to buy ones that are 10 to 12 pounds. If you need more meat, then buy two smaller turkey hens. He said never to buy larger turkeys--like the ones on sale that are over 20 pounds. Most likely these are older male turkeys that have less meat and skinnier drumsticks and thinner breasts. Generally, these turkeys will be tougher. That's why they're on sale. I think I learned alot yesterday, and I'm on my way to buying a turkey hen today.
November 16, 2004 Cooking, Thanksgiving Comments (0)
Delicious Chocolate Recipes from France
One of foodie readers' favorite blogs might be ChocolateandZucchini.com, and we love their Chocolate is My Friend archives. These aren't your usual chocolate dessert recipes, but ones that remind us of eating great desserts on our trip to France last year. If you're looking for a cultural twist on a chocolate recipe, then pick one here. Our favorite is the Apricot & Ginger Chocolate Cake. Even if you're not in the mood to cook, blog writer, Chotilde, is a joy to read.
October 4, 2004 Chocolate, Cooking Comments (0)
Find Recipes Using Google
I recently heard of using Google to find recipes just by entering the ingredients you have on hand, and I found this great online tool. Just enter the ingredients you might have, and this Google tool will find you all the recipes online using those ingredients. Great way to find a way to use what's left in your refrigerator, and maybe saving you a trip to the store.
September 19, 2004 Cooking Comments (1)
Best Pumpkin Pie Recipe
Everyone has their favorite pumpkin pie recipe, right? Well, count on Cook's Illustrated to test all the different ways to make pumpkin pie to come up with their own best version.
Note--since publishing this post, Cook's Illustrated has changed access to its page, so here's a copy of the recipe below.
Continue reading "Best Pumpkin Pie Recipe"
September 15, 2004 Cooking, Halloween, Thanksgiving Comments (1)
Get Ready for Summer Grilling - BBQ Tips
Gear up for your summer backyard barbeque's. Hear from some grilling experts from Food & Wine's Grilling Tips.
May 18, 2004 Cooking Comments (1)
2004 James Beard Award Nominees Announced
The 2004 James Beard Foundation Awards nominees were presented last week. Winners will be announced during the May 10 14th Annual James Beard Foundation Awards and Gala Reception. Ticket information is available at www.jamesbeard.org.
See the complete list of 2004 Nominees here.
March 16, 2004 Cooking Comments (0)
Recipes for St. Patrick's Day
Here's some sources for recipes for St. Patrick's Day celebrations.
February 19, 2004 Cooking Comments (0)
Christmas Entertaining Ideas from Gourmet Magazine
Looking for ideas for your Christmas holiday entertaining? Gourmet Magazine's website epicurious.com offers a collection of their best recipes, drinks, and how-tos for your Christmas party and more.
Bon Appetit also offers their holiday ideas from holiday dinners to desserts.
December 12, 2003 Christmas, Cooking, Holidays Comments (0)
A Twist on Thanksgiving Stuffing and More
Thanksgiving stuffing can be as traditional or untraditional as you imagine. To experiment and explore, Better Homes and Gardens offers a few unique versions of your traditional Thanksgiving turkey stuffing.
For a variety of other Thanksgiving recipes, Food and Wine Magazine's website offers an extensive listing of Thanksgiving articles and recipes covering turkey, appetizers, desserts, wine pairings, and holiday entertainment tips.
Daily Olive Special - Save on Food and Gourmet Magazines!
November 21, 2003 Cooking, Thanksgiving Comments (0)
TurkeyHelp.com - All About Turkey from Cook's Illustrated
Our favorite cooking magazine, Cook's Illustrated, has published a new minisite all about Thanksgiving turkey. Appropriately called TurkeyHelp.com, the site has everthing you ever needed to know about buying, preparing, cooking, and carving your Thanksgiving turkey. As thorough as their magazine articles, you find the same comprehensive detail and knowledge on this great holiday resource.
November 18, 2003 Christmas, Cooking, Thanksgiving Comments (0)
Holiday Recipe: Cajun Deep Fried Turkey
Each year it seems we hear more about people deep frying their Thanksgiving turkey. So this year, we set out to find out about this Cajun tradition of deep frying turkeys.
We found excellent articles about turkey frying in general--"Deep-fried Turkey" from Texas A&M University, and another from native New Orleanian Chuck Taggarts' website The Gumbo Pages. And another site called Jim's Cajun Deep-Fried Turkey Page, comes with pictures of a fryer set-up in Jim's driveway.
Of course, we have to include a fried turkey recipe from Emeril, the star of Food TV.
Related Link: Turk N' Surf Electric Turkey Fryer
November 14, 2003 Cooking, Holidays, Thanksgiving Comments (0)
Thanksgiving Countdown - A Cook's Guide
FoodTv.com helps us prepare for Thanksgiving dinner and hopefully make it a bit less stressful with their Thanksgiving Countdown list. For virgin Thanksgiving hosts, this list is a godsend. For veterans, it might be old hat but always a good reminder.
November 3, 2003 Cooking, Thanksgiving Comments (0)
Capture the Flavors of Shanghai with Chinablue
In recent years, Shanghai has recaptured its pre-war stature of the most cosmopolitan city in the Far East. On the lifestyle front, Chinablue founder, Richard Wong, brings his vision of Shanghainese elegance and sophistication with new culinary food products, home furnishings, and future destination concepts that include retail locations, restaurants, and boutique hotels.
The Chinablue culinary product line was inspired by Richard's memories of growing up in Shanghai and his treasured family's recipes. The flavors of Shanghainese cuisine have been captured in his line of sauces, dressings, glazes, oils, and teas. Enjoy these uniquely Shanghainese blends of soy sauce, sesame oils, scallions and ginger, sherry, and black beans.
Chinablue Shanghai Glazes available online thru Sur La Table.
October 25, 2003 A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Cooking, Food Comments (0)
Dust Off Your Cookbooks
Photographer Heidi Swanson loves cookbooks and by her count, owns over 100 cookbooks. Since early this year, she decided that it was time to "stop buying, and start cooking". Her weblog, 101 Cookbooks, is her personal diary of trying new recipes from her cookbook library. Her writing about each new recipe experience may inspire you to look into your own cookbook collection and try something new. Every diary entry is categorized by recipe and cookbook, even down to the page number. Enjoy!
October 23, 2003 Cooking Comments (0)
