It’s tough to maintain enthusiasm for anything when you’ve been doing it a while. I notice often the same menu items crop up again and again in what I’m cooking. It’s just easier that way. This week, though, I decided to branch out a little bit and serve up French fries in a method I [...]
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You should have awesome leftovers
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Get your kids into the kitchen (recipe: Mexican casserole)
Two nights ago my son helped out in the kitchen. He’s two and a half, and I’ve been including him in kitchen stuff forever. He first noticed, I think, at about three months. We cooked frittata together, and he was fascinated by the eggs. Before last night, he’d done a few things here and there [...]
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Black Bean Tacos
I love transferrable skills. It’s one of the reasons I do my best to talk about understanding food rather than memorizing recipes. If you understand food, then you can take an idea and move it across an entire spectrum of entrees. Like, for example, the idea of including onion in a recipe without really including [...]
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It’s not a failure if you end on a good note
Let’s get it out of the way: I’m sorry. I feel like such an irresponsible blogger, especially since I started with such promise, such lofty goals. Teach myself how to really cook, I said. Learn about food fundamentals through study, practice, and writing about it, the very act of articulation enough to instill in myself [...]
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