Entries tagged with 'how-tos'
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André Soltner, former chef-owner of Lutèce and the dean of Classic Studies at The French Culinary Institute, helps you bone up on your omelet skills in this video from Time Out New York, after the jump. A trick new to me: using white pepper instead of black—to avoid the specks....
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What do you do with tomatoes that are a tad past their BLT or caprese salad prime? Ketchupify them. Nick Kindelsperger of The Paupered Chef, and our regular Dinner Tonight contributor, followed a recipe by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. "It's almost good enough to eat with a spoon."...
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[Photograph: theogeo on Flickr] Things are about to get competitive in the kitchen and it's not a Top Chef Quickfire challenge. It's time to start hypercooking. Hypercooking is defined by The Food Section as "an environmentally conscious way of cooking that seeks to maximize the impact of the energy used during the cooking process." Hypercooking is the kitchen version of hypermiling, in which drivers change they way they drive and use specific techniques to go as far as possible on a gallon of gas. In the Big Green Cookbook Jackie Newgent offers hypercooking tips and recipes, such as one for cookies that finish baking in the residual heat of the oven. Try these tips, after the jump, to save...
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[Image: lucylou.livejournal.com] Why are pickle recipe comics so great? Because they tell you to "stabbity-stab" cucumbers and warn you of "specs-fogging steam" when boiling a big pot of pickling spices. Lucy Knisley drew this after whipping up her own batch of full-sour pickles for the first time. The recipe requires pickles to lounge in their pickly juices for 24 to 36 hours, during which you are encouraged to talk to them ("C'mon! Be pickles!") according to step seven. [via notmartha.org] Related Are Pickles a Burger Condiment? Where To Find Fried Pickles on the East Coast Pickle Juice [Talk] The Year of the Pickle, and Other Jewish Food Astrology...
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[Flickr: L. Marie] For a unique ice cream treat, Evil Mad Scientist shows you how to make ice cream gyoza, ice cream-stuffed cookie dough pouches formed in a gyoza press, with chocolate sauce on the side. I think I'd prefer a greater ice cream-to-dough ratio, but ice cream, chilled cookie dough, and chocolate sounds like a winning combination. Related How to Make an Ice Cream Smore'wich How to Make Drumsticks From Scratch Curry Carrot Ice Cream How to Make Mini Ice Cream from Creamer Cups...
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Why eat a hot dog when you can transform it into a wind instrument? All you need is a freezer and a drill. Simply pop the wiener into the freezer and "once it is rock hard" (the video's words, not mine) slip a paper pattern on top with the strategically drawn holes and drill through them. The video reassures any anti-food wasters that excess wiener dregs, a natural byproduct after drilling, can be saved for future uses. The meatflute tutorial, after the jump....
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I have been growing a beard lately. Mostly out of laziness. I am just plain tired of shaving. I kid myself that I am saving time by not engaging in the daily ritual of lathering and scraping because the longer my beard gets, the more time I seem to spend trying, unsuccessfully, to keep food out of it....
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Photograph from Muffet on Flickr On Wisebread Linsey Knerl discusses her Five-Day Freeze cook-ahead technique. It's her way of cooking and freezing food for future meals without having to spend two days straight in the kitchen. So basically advocates doing a half hour to hour's worth of extra cooking while you're prepping that day's meal: We have some amazing batch cooking (or make-ahead) tips here on Wise Bread. I’ll share those with you later in this article. What I’m aiming to discuss, however, is how to achieve the same level "cook now, eat later" zen, without the horrid hangover that occurs when you shop for an entire month’s worth of food, cook for 12 hours straight, and then collapse...
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Photograph from morning_rumtea on Flickr Farmers have been purposefully leaving edges of their fields unharvested and fruit unpicked for the less fortunate since biblical times. Today, groups around the country are translating that idea and encouraging us to do the same--by picking the fruit from your neighbor's tree. Photograph from Muffet on Flickr Urban fruit-harvesting groups started in places where there are abundant fruit trees, such as California. But groups are now popping up all over the U.S. and the world. All of them have one thing in common: making use of food that would otherwise go unused (i.e., rot on the sidewalk). Some groups gather wild food that's growing in a public space, such as a traffic median;...
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New to us, via Neatorama, comes panda bread. It's sure to make the hearts of panda lovers everywhere explode with rainbows. Or, if you've ever wanted to eat pandas, this can be your socially safe panda-eating outlet. Basically, it requires strategic folding of various colored doughs (green tea, cocoa) to form the ULTIMATE panda in baked form. Make sure to check out the original Japanese recipe to see other examples of panda cakes, some of which I'm sorry to say look like mutant strains of panda. Because nothing says "I love you" like a panda cake. Related Rubik's Cube Sandwich What's the Prettiest Dessert You've Ever Seen?...
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