Home-Cured Holiday Ham – First You Brine, Then You Brag

Home-Cured Holiday Ham – First You Brine, Then You Brag

Pork Tips and Techniques

There are many reasons for making your own holiday ham, but the best one of all, may be the most superficial. After the holidays, as people are standing around the water cooler, bragging how great their glazed carrots were, or how amazing the cranberry sauce came out, you can say, [...]

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Pan-Roasted Chicken Breasts – Less Time, More Skin = Better Breasts

Pan-Roasted Chicken Breasts – Less Time, More Skin = Better Breasts

Chicken Sauces Tips and Techniques

Cooking up a few chicken breasts should be a fast, easy, and delicious experience, but for many people it’s actually a slow, hard, and disappointing one. There are several reasons for this, and hopefully this demo for how to pan-roast chicken will eliminate them. The most important [...]

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Poached Pears “Belle Helene” - Why Escoffier Really Created This Dish

Poached Pears “Belle Helene” - Why Escoffier Really Created This Dish

Dessert French Cuisine Tips and Techniques

They say Auguste Escoffier created this dish in honor of the opera, La Belle Helen, but we chefs know the real reason. How else are you going to use up bruised pears in such a delicious and beautiful way? Okay, so maybe that wasn’t his motivation, but as you’ll see in the video, [...]

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How to Make Your Own Prepared Horseradish – Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

How to Make Your Own Prepared Horseradish – Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

Dips Sauces Spicy Tips and Techniques

Every time I use horseradish in a recipe, I get e-mails from people asking me how they can make it at home. They mention they can get the fresh root, but can’t find anything already prepared in the jar, which in some cases is hard to believe – like when the email originates from [...]

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Homemade Dill Pickles – Naturally Fermented, Whatever That Means

Homemade Dill Pickles – Naturally Fermented, Whatever That Means

Pickles Tips and Techniques Vegetables

This is going to be an easy post, in that I know virtually nothing about fermenting pickles. The only thing I know for sure is how to make them, and for me, that’s enough. If you make a simple salt brine, add some spices, and submerge Kirby cucumbers in it for about a week, you get [...]

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