Category Archives: kitchen tips This is a huge admission, but to be honest, I have never made gnocchi before. In culinary school we all served a stint in the Italian restaurant Caterina de Medici. We spent fourteen days there, seven in the kitchen and seven in the dining room where I very dramatically set my hand on fire while […]  As soon as I feel the first nip in the air I start planning what fall soups I’ll be making, to me fall=soup! I love soup, and I love Autumn, so I am feeling pretty happy at the moment. Last week I stopped at the grocery store on my way home from the gym. […]  Everyone loves mashed potatoes, but do you like yours smooth or lumpy, smashed or mashed and silky? Chances are good that if you’re my age, your grandmother had a potato ricer, and you remember her mashed potatoes as creamy and silky. When I was growing up (in the 1960s) instant mashed potatoes began appearing, and […]  Here are ten cleaning hacks and tips. OK, maybe they’re not all “hacks” because I’m not exactly sure what qualifies as a hack… If you cook a lot, you make a lot of messes, and it can be a challenge getting things clean. Before you toss that stained Pyrex, the pot […]  If the last time you had creamed corn was from a can, July is the perfect month to make some real creamed corn, and forget that junk! I have always loved creamed corn, and then while visiting a good friend sat I down with his copy of Thomas Keller’s amazing and wonderful Ad Hoc at Home, […] |
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