I just wanted to make an easy meal after a long day of gardening and computering. Just a little soup and salad–but we have no dressing. Was I going to have to futz and fuss with a homemade salad dressing before I could sit down and eat?
Herbs & Spices
Using Herbs and Spices: More on Flavor Families
Here’s the great thing about herb and spice flavor families. Find one you like and you’ve got an easy springboard to creative fun, as in this recipe for Eggplant and Garbanzo Stew with Spicy Coriander Flavors.
Is it OK to use the garlic and ginger that comes in jars?
Those little jars of prepared garlic and ginger are so completely convenient! No fussing with paper-thin garlic peels, no paring gnarly knobs of ginger or endangering fingers on the ginger grater and no garlic-smelling hands for the rest of the night. But is it OK...
Comfort Stew: Beef Daube Provencal
A classic, no-fail stew. Make it in the slow cooker or on the stovetop, and learn several tricks for a more tender and tasty stew. Cooking School notes included as well as modifications.
Mary’s on Fox 31–Quick Tricks for Fast Gourmet Green Beans
We all know that Thanksgiving can be a huge undertaking. To keep from getting overwhelmed, it’s nice to plan a couple dishes on the simpler side. This recipe incorporates four tricks for easy, gourmet flair.
Kitchen Coach on TV–Whips Together an Appetizer with a Difference
Kitchen Coach Mary Collette is doing a Holiday Cooking series for Fox 31 in Denver. Her first appearance was last Friday, November 21, when she and host Ken Clark made an appetizer tray featuring a Rosemary Yam Butter appetizer Tray. Yum.
Herb and Spice Resources—A Beginning List
A couple of resources that might prove helpful for an herb and spice adventure. They feature recipes that are indexed by spice, making it easy to find new ways to use those herbs and spices on your experimentation list.
Using Herbs and Spices: Continue the Adventure
Go ahead and get hooked on using herbs and spices. In tough economic times, it’s an amazingly cheap thrill–especially using herbs from a kitchen or outdoor garden. And once you begin seeing common herb patterns, you can begin exercising your own creativity.
Getting Adventurous Using Herbs and Spices—Part 2
If you’re ready to start using herbs and spices more adventurously, or just at all, here are
Seven More Rules of the Road for a Successful Spice Adventure
Getting Adventurous Using Herbs and Spices
Ready to start using herbs and spices more adventurously, or just at all? Here are Six Tricks and Tips for a Successful Spice Adventure
Using Herbs and Spices–Outside the Comfort Zone
If you want to begin using more and/or more interesting herbs and spices, the most important step is taking the plunge. Don’t get persuaded to hunker down in your comfort zone by a possibility of un-success that’s really pretty small and hardly disastrous.