6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Building Block Techniques
After a recent post on storing your slow cooker, one reader asked why we didn’t include any ideas for using a slow cooker. So here is one from Lauren, our long time volunteer adviser and the class assistant in our New Kitchen Cooking School. I had always slow...
6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Building Block Techniques, Seasonal Eating
Cooking vegetables gratin-style is a delicious option–in the winter. Because a gratin is baked an hour or so, it’s tough to even think about making one in the heat of summer. Hence the slow cooker version in this recipe. Of course in cooler weather, you can also...
7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Building Block Techniques, Gluten-Free/Wheat-Free Eating, Uncategorized
Skillets Are Great Way to Get Good Food Fast An earlier post described a friend’s go-to trick for making tasty, healthy food fast: melanges. For me, it’s skillet dishes, hands down. Why Skillets? Learn to make one and you can vary it a hundred ways,...
6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Building Block Techniques, Uncategorized, Waste Not-Want Not
Affordability A couple recent posts delved into affordability and how to make quality meat affordable. One solution to the high price of meat, of course, lies in making vegetarian meals once or twice each week (or more.) It’s no secret that beans are cheaper...
6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Building Block Techniques, The Right Equipment for Healthy Cooking
An earlier post explained several ways to cook dried beans. While desk cleaning recently, I ran across an article with more bean-cooking tips. It’s by John Broening, the owner of several seasonal and local restaurants in Denver and long-time Denver Post...
6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Building Block Techniques, Gluten-Free/Wheat-Free Eating, Uncategorized
Transform throw away crusts into kitchen gold The previous post talked about “breading,” an easy building block cooking technique used to create dozens of different, interesting dishes. Get ready to start experimenting with this technique by making your...
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