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Help Kitchen Visual Guides

March 26, 2018 by Chris Leave a Comment

Help Kitchen Visual Guides

Fire up the color printer because we have 16 of our favorite kitchen diagrams. We need these because we never have all the ingredients, always wonder if that’s still good to eat, and what is the best wine to pair with string cheese. In all seriousness, tape some of these up on the inside of your cabinets for a fast answer to simple kitchen questions.

1. Easy Soups

Hold up, you may not need to run to the store to pick up dinner. Here are 10 soups you can make combining an odd can of beans, the last veggies in your fridge and seasonings that may have expired.

2. Spice Pairings

Did you know you can use Caraway with Cottage cheese?

3. A Guide to Cooking and Baking Substitutions

This one is super useful. We have made entire recipes using only substitutions.

4. Cooking Methods

Disappointed the torch method can’t be used for Grilled Cheese.

5. Guide to Flavoring with Spices

Another spicy visualization.

6. Conversion Chart

For when you find a recipe on a British Blog… Or when you’re anywhere else in the world and need to know what the American’s are talking about.

7. Kitchen Volume Conversion Aid

When you need to turn the volume up in the kitchen…

8. Healthy Oil Cooking Guide

If you watch Food Network, you may not know you can’t use Olive Oil for everything.

9. The Onion Breakdown

This is helpful in some dishes but I normally ignore everything except the Red Onion bit.

10. Egg Substitutions

If I don’t have eggs, I normally have bananas. The PB substitution is mind-blowing.

11. How Much to Serve at a Party

Cupcake ratio seems a bit low.

12. Veggie Cooking Cheat Sheet

You can’t throw in all veggies at the same time and expect it to taste good.

13. Perfect Cookie

All look good to me, but 7,3,6,5,4,8,2,1

14. How to Store Your Groceries

Have you stored a peeled banana more than a day? I’d like to hear the story behind that.

15. Real Good Cheap Easy Food

Lots of good recipes and note the shopping list on the sides.

16. Wine & Cheese Pairing

Everyone knows Boursin and Gruner Veltliner pair well, but you may not know cheddar and merlot are BFF’s

The Chemistry of Cookies – Ted Ed

December 21, 2017 by Chris Leave a Comment

The Chemistry of Cookies

‘Tis the season. Cookies are everywhere. They become a form of currency this time of the year. But why are they so good? There’s science behind what makes cookies so delectable and Ted Ed does a good job illustrating it.

Explore New Foods with your Family

March 2, 2015 by Karen 3 Comments

Our kids are pretty adventurous in the kitchen- at least for three year-olds. They are famous in our neighborhood for requesting goat cheese or brie at picnics. You give them American Cheese they’ll tell the host your cheese has no flavor. They know more about food at their age than I knew at thirty and maybe have eaten more fruit then I did by that age. Then, I met Karen. Your diet changes when your new girlfriend is a feeding expert. Expect to be introducing new foods. Now, as a family we took up the challenge and ran with it.

We’re doing a loose weekly experiment. Every week we bring home fruits and veggies completely foreign to us. Week one we did a coconut. We knew what a coconut looked like, but we had no idea eating it would involve a trip to the garage. rTt5qiP

After than we went to jicama. I picked it up at the store having no idea what it was. We googled the PLU code and youtube helped us figure out what to do with it. We loved it both raw, as a taco shell or topping and in smoothies.

Last night, we picked up something that was a sun drop? We believe it was in the honeydew family. Likely some type of hybrid. Not so much info on this one it we it was sweet and a nice compliment to a bowl of strawberries.

So far we’ve enjoyed the randomness of mother nature’s offerings. Completely different textures, tastes and methods of eating pushes our kitchen creativity. We explore as a family and immediately begin to put meals together around them. Without being too heavy handed new foods put an emphasis on health. It also keeps your meals fresh and different at least a few times a week.