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Q & A: How to Heat Oil for Sauteing

6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Building Block Techniques

Kitchen Tip (+ a Little Kitchen Wisdom) At a recent Cooking Get Together we were preparing to saute onions for a healthy risotto.  As always, the recipe said, “heat oil until hot but not smoking.”  That directive led one of the participants to ask: Q. ...

The “Good to Better Cooking Continuum” at 11,000 Feet

5-New Kitchen Thinking, 6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Opinion and Editorial, Uncategorized

You’d think cooking might fall off the priority scale in a bare bones hut, at 11,400 feet above sea level, in the middle of winter.  Actually, cooking, meals  and food conversation were a good 50 percent of the fun on a recent altitude adventure.  In fact, it...

Cooking Fear? Part 4

6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Opinion and Editorial, Uncategorized

Prescription for Perfectionism: Limiting Exposure and Sticking to a Comfortable Creative Zone Yesterday’s post talked about relaxing our expectations. That can be hard to do on a jam-packed schedule. One thing that can help: Limiting our exposure to things that fan...

Cooking Fear? Part 3

6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Opinion and Editorial, Uncategorized

Prescription for Perfectionism–Relax Previous posts opened the subject of cooking fears and where they might have come from. My theory: Blame the Olympics! In fairness, however, the Olympics aren’t really to blame. They are just a symptom. The perfectionism,...

Cooking Fear? Part 2

6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Opinion and Editorial, Uncategorized

Yesterday’s post raised the topic of cooking fears and whether Olympic-inspired perfectionism, complexity and audience intolerance were at least partly at fault. Let me connect some dots to make sense of that claim. There’s good evidence that the food world is...
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