To make up for taking Thanksgiving from me last year, my MIL gave me Easter this year. I've never cooked Easter dinner before. My in-laws always have baked ham, which I'm a little sick of. I'd like to do lamb,...
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When I started to go through the earlier stages of my love faux chefdom (I’m a good cook, but I know it’s faux chedom. Jean-Georges has nothing to fear from me), I swear, I could not get enough ingredients into...
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Whether it's out of habit, obstinacy, or a simple lack of mastery, it seems every cook has at least one technique they do their own way. Not just among friends, either. Most professional chefs seem to have at least one...
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What are your secret (or, not so secret) shortcuts in cooking? Do you do everything from scratch except for that one little trick? What is it? Mine is Annie Chun's Pad Thai sauce...no experimentation of my own with the million...
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i bought a book call the great curries of indian. and on page 106 it called for 4th line it calls for chille past..up above there is no chile past. is it when you add the yogurt and cayenne together?...
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What one piece of advice would you share with a beginner cook? Thinking back to what may have been helpful to you...was it a specific cookbook? Shopping for ingredients? Being fearless with seasonings? Safety & sanitation tips? Utensil & cookware...
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When I woke up and wandered into the kitchen this morning, I realized there was an open bottle of sauvignon blanc, with about a glass's worth of wine still in it from last night. It had been sitting out, unsealed,...
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Did you win a cookng contest? Accomplish a new technique? Create a spectactular feast? Impress a SO? Teach someone else how to cook? My most memorable was at age 8 when I won several blue ribbons at the county fair...
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Recently I made roasted brussel sprouts for dinner with friends. One of my guests asked how I cooked the brussel sprouts, and I was telling her that after I put them in the oven, I waited until I could smell...
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When cooking from a recipe, I'm a weigh & measure type person. I'm just plain awful when it comes to adding a pinch of this & a dab of that---meaning poor recipe results. Dorie encourages us to "play around" with...
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