I was making pie dough the other day and while preparing the dough a common term used in baking jumped out at me. I realized how confusing this term must be to novice cooks and especially to non-native English speakers. It’s actually a phrasal verb and is idiomatic: to cut in or ‘cutting in.’ This […]
Must Have List of Kitchen Utensils with Names, Pictures and Uses
There are a couple of things I don’t like in the kitchen. I don’t like overly heavy bowls that are hard to store and just awkward. I don’t like pouring things into colanders to drain. I don’t like getting out a cutting board when I only have to do a little snipping. With that in mind, […]
There are No FDA Approved Knives or Cookware
The FDA does not approve knives. The FDA does not approve the material knives are made from. The FDA does not approve “food grade” stainless steel or aluminum. If a kitchen knife or any other piece of kitchen equipment meant for food preparation or contact claims to be FDA approved or made from materials which […]
How to Make Perfect Over Easy Eggs
Before you learn how to make the perfect over easy fried eggs, you need to know exactly what over easy eggs are. There is certainly a lot of confusion about the different ways of cooking fried eggs. So much so that I created a post explaining all these terms including over easy, over medium, over […]
Best Cereal Box Prize Ever: Free Long Distance Calls!
As much as the TV cartoons influenced my devotion to Cap’n Crunch — which has waned but never truly wilted — there were also free prizes in the boxes which were a bit more high-quality (to a kid’s mind) than other cereal-box prizes. They’d have comic books and all sorts of great things. One famous […]
Once and For All, Bell Peppers Do NOT Have Gender!
An image of green bell pepper lobes making an extraordinary claim seems to never stop making the rounds on Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook. The written message on the image claims that you should flip over bell peppers to check their gender. The ones with four bumps are females and the ones with three bumps […]