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The Most Common Cooking Mistakes [
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The creative cook can often cook her way out of a kitchen error, but the smart cook aims to prevent such creativity from being necessary. Here are 25 ways to be smarter every time.
Blog Post & Recipe:
Wintery Spring Rolls Recipe
Here's how this works. Each roll has a slather of ginger onion paste, a couple crunchy lettuce leaves, some mushrooms, tofu, and a bit of cilantro (or other herb of your choice - mint, basil). Roll tight, and you're set.
Blog Post & Recipe:
Stifado, Greek Rabbit Stew
Stifado uses a lot of olive oil, so it is smooth going down. This moistens the rabbit as well, which is braised slowly until it is about to fall off the bone. You can pull the meat off the bone before serving, as I do, or just leave the pieces in the stew. The Greeks typically leave the pieces as-is. The spices give the stew zing without heat, and the tomatoes, which are obviously a post-1492 addition, add a bit more sweetness as well as needed acidity. There’s a reason stifado is such a strong part of Greek cooking.
Blog Post & Recipe:
Mrs Beeton’s Spiced Beef
The outside cures becoming firm but leaving the inside very soft perfect for cold cuts and canapes.
Blog Post & Recipe:
How to cook perfect yorkshire puddings
The single most important thing to remember about yorkshire puddings is that the fat must be smoking hot before you begin cooking – you need a good sizzle as batter hits dripping.
Blog Post & Recipe:
The Nasty Bits: Sweetbreads
Sweetbreads, to clarify, are a culinary term that refers to two very different organs—the thymus glands and the pancreas, the latter which is often called the "stomach sweetbread," though of course, the stomach and the pancreas are different. [...] You can sauté or pan-fry the sweetbreads with whatever flavors you like. This time, I used mustard seed and turmeric, sautéed with plenty of onions and chili peppers, for a vaguely Indian preparation that tasted nice with fragrant basmati on the side.
Sweetbreads Sauté
Blog Post & Recipe:
Whole-Wheat Pita Bread
This recipe, adapted from Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, yields an easy and pleasing dough to work with. Store leftover balls of dough (individually wrapped) in the freezer, then thaw and cook to order.
Blog Post & Recipes:
Sear, Sauce, and Serve: Mastering High-Heat, High-Flavor Cooking
The visual might not be enough to get you in the restaurant (I’ve never been), but it is instructive on the basics of sautéing: start with a sturdy pan and high heat (no worries, you don’t need the dancing flames); add seafood, vegetables, or meat (or all of the above); sear and toss; and then finish with a splash of booze or a sauce. That’s the formula, but there are a couple of smaller but equally important steps.
Sautéed Steaks and Chops ... Brandy and Dried Cherry Pan Sauce
Blog Post & Recipes:
11 Lentil Recipes We Love
Overlooked by many a supermarket shopper, protein-rich lentils are faster than other types of dried legumes to prepare, and they easily absorb your favorite flavors from other foods and seasonings. As a result, you can never really run out of ways to make them.
French Lentils With Roasted Roots, Caramelized Onions And Thyme ... Lentil And Sun-Dried Pesto Salad With Roasted Peppers ... Green-Lentil Curry ... Lentil Soup With Kielbasa And Kale ... Lentil Coconut Soup With Lentil Apple Salad ... Lentils With Red Wine And Herbs ... Lemony Lentil Salad With Salmon ... Lentil And Almond Burgers ... Lentil, Cilantro And Chili Salad With Warm Cauliflower Florets ... Squash, Chickpea And Red Lentil Stew ... Black Lentil And Bell Pepper With Mint Salad
