And be careful what you spend on As a nerd, I tend to place a great importance on things. It comes from spending my formative years with +1 swords of slaying and 1-up mushrooms. That being said, I don’t place a lot of importance on prefect kitchen gear. I use what what works for me, and [...]
Author Archives: Greg Turner
Make a plan for healthier eating habits
This week has been all about the menu plan and grocery list. Please forgive my singular, obsessive focus. It’s just one of those things that’s important to me. When I’m at the grocery store, I tend to shop by impulse: “Look! Chervil! Why, every house needs some chervil. And…and…Passion fruit! How have I survived this [...]
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A sample menu plan
One of the reasons I get to cook every night is that I spend several minutes Sunday coming up with a menu plan for the week’s dinners (I’ve also been cooking a while and don’t have to teach myself a set of new skills every day). Even if you’re a beginning cook, though, making a [...]
How to find time to cook? Make the commitment
The other day I unleashed a string of obscenities on my Tumblr blog after reading “How Do Working Parents Do It?” by Pete Wells. He’s a columnist, a working dad, and I called him a bad person. Given some thought, I don’t think Mr. Wells is a bad person. I don’t know him. But little [...]
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Mastering salt is the first step towards mastering food
“What’s the most important thing for a cook to know in your kitchen?” [Keller] paused, then said, “Seasoning.” “What do you mean, seasoning?” “Salt and pepper.” He paused again. “Salt, really.” “The most important thing for a cook to know is how to salt food?” “That’s right,” he said. -Michael Ruhlman, The Elements of Cooking [...]