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My three essential cooking herbs
It’s time to regather my brain – which is still halfway to the beach – and share this herb primer featuring my three favorite green…
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Looking back at some of my favorite tips & tricks
I cannot believe that s&h is now over three years old and is home to over 600 posts! That’s a lot of cooking and a…
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What do fruit stickers mean?
If you’re curious, go visit Fruit Sticker where you can plug in the PLU number you find on produce and find out what it actually…
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Making our own cheese
Yes, making our own cheese is right. Thanks, Lyn, for the guest post! When K was recently in Seattle for a visit (which mostly turned…
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Fun facts: storing tomatoes
Thanks to Lyn and Jean for sending this through from America’s Test Kitchen – always great to keep learning new tricks of the trade! We’ve…
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Useful things – how to tell when meat is done
Over from Clotilde’s comes another gem on testing the doneness of red meat as described in The Butcher and the Vegetarian : “Put the tips…
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How to store ginger
The following useful note comes from Lyn – and I’ve often wondered about this myself since you never ever use all of the ginger knob…
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More on knives: paring knives
Whichever way you cut it (there I go with the puns again), knives are the essential cooking and prepping tool. Lyn has forwarded this information…
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Kitchen bragging
A short pitstop to brag about my new kitchen cookbook shelf, which beyond being amazingly useful, has also seen my London kitchen (or at least…
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Commonly mispronounced culinary words and/or items
Val (Hi!) pointed me in the direction of this list of Menu Minefields – commonly mispronounced food items. The comments are worth a read as…
