HOW TO SKIN A FISH FILLET
In the past week, I’ve heard two talk show hosts mention that they liked a fish dish and wanted to learn to prepare it but were at a loss as to how to remove the skin before cooking. Read more
Posts from the ‘Informational’ Category
Sep 25
Family Meal Planning Efficiency During the Week
In my last posting, I talked about the fact that in the fall, when activities start up, especially after school opens, schedules fill up so fast, even into the evening hours, that many people get really stressed. It takes time to adjust to new routines and frequently the first casualties are meals, most especially the family dinner. Read more
CHICKEN: TO RINSE OR NOT TO RINSE
About 5 yrs. ago all the chefs began touting “brining” poultry. My family has been “soaking” it in salted water, before cooking, for generations because salt draws the blood. Unlike other meats, residual blood in poultry toughens the meat and taints the taste. Read more
Basic Sauces Explained – Recipes for your favorite basic Sauces
A friend, who’s a really savvy cook, read me the riot act, via email, right after last week’s posting appeared. Quite rightly, he pointed out that I had confused sauces identity by incorrectly lumping them with gravies. Read more
Savvy Sauce Recipes – Advanced Sauce Techniques
Those of you who read last week’s blog on sauce recipes will have realized that sauces, in their classic forms, can be tricky, time consuming, possibly expensive, to make and certainly no friend to any type of diet. Read more
The Mediterranean Diet Explained – Tips and Recipes
Lately the Mediterranean Diet is very popular and highly recommended. Correctly titled, it’s not actually “The Mediterranean Diet” but rather “A Mediterranean Style Diet” because this is not a calculated, calibrated formula for eating specific items over a given time to achieve a set goal. Read more
Spotlight on Vegetables – Tips for a healthy summer food preperation
One steamy afternoon last week, I joined a group by the pool. One woman was describing her meal plan for guests the next day. Understandably, unwilling to cook in the heat, she had called a caterer. Read more
BEWARE RISING MEAT PRICES – Meat Buying Tips and International Meat Recipes
Sometimes it doesn’t feel good to be right. In fact, at times you’d rather be wrong and this is one of them for me. For nearly a year, I’ve been reporting predictions that meat, especially beef prices, were going to continue to go up. Just a few weeks ago, I warned that the usual pattern was to see them rise right after a holiday. Read more
