Tag: pepper

Today’s Lunch: Risotto

Simple, creamy, delicious, satisfying, savory, spicy, vegetarian, meat, dairy, fish, main, side, lunch, dinner. Risotto can be anything you want it to be, because risotto is a method of preparation, n... Read More

Preparing and Cooking A #2 Chuck Roast

In my meat chart, I indicate that a #2 is meant for braising and other long, slow cooking methods. While this hunk of meat still walked the earth as part of a cow, this particular muscle group was res... Read More

Today’s Lunch: Cacio e Pepe

There are times when a surfeit of ingredients in a dish weave an intricate pattern of  textures and flavors on your palette in a magical gustatory experience. Each bite proffers its own unique se... Read More

Kitchen Scale

Over the years I’ve had several different kitchen scales. The first one I remember was a cheap spring-driven one that almost never got used. It sat on the shelf with the glasses, and sometimes w... Read More

Salsa

[poll id=”2″] It’s always fun to take the same ingredients and turn them into very diverse products. In my Sauteing & Frying II class, it was almost the same mise en place for ea... Read More