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Even with boots, chilly weather, and blog posts about pumpkins, to me, it’s not officially fall until I make a batch of butternut squash soup. For one thing, it’s easy, filling, and oh-so healthy. But the soup’s gorgeous, saturated orange color? The way it warms you from the inside out? Fall. Totally fall. Butternut squash [...]
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Saturday night, home from the grocery store and happily settling in to a re-stocked kitchen, I suddenly realized I had four count ‘em FOUR heads of garlic. Joe and I love to cook with garlic, but getting through four bulbs would take a while, by which time they’d probably dry out. My solution? I made [...]
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In college, Joe and I had a housemate whose then-girlfriend would stay over on weekends, and wake up each Sunday and make him fresh cinnamon muffins. Never one to have a sweet tooth and certainly NOT a sucker for baked goods, there was still something about that warm, comforting aroma on the weekends that really [...]
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It hasn’t come in as an official MMT question, but one thing I repeatedly encounter when discussing cookery with friends and family is the reliance on store bought stock. It seems like there’s a lot of mystery (and perhaps fear?) when it comes to making stock, which is funny, because unless you’re being graded on [...]
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Dicing an onion is literally THE first knife skill we covered in culinary school, probably because you end up chopping a lot of onions during your time as a student, and also because the technique is applicable to lots of other items — think potatoes, carrots (with a few extra steps), and more. But, one [...]
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As promised in Tuesday’s episode, here is a list of things I like to have on hand at all times in both fridge, freezer and pantry. If I’m out of several of these, I know it’s time to get my butt to the store, pronto. See the list:
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Has this ever happened to you? It’s just about dinner time. You open up the fridge, and things look pretty barren. You have a few leftover eggs that have a couple of days left in them, a nubbin of cheese, and some weary looking vegetables. Totally time to call in for takeout, no? Not even! [...]
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