Home Chef Cooking Tips

Basic knife skills are one of the most important things to learn when you first start learning to cook. Not only are knife skills necessary for properly preparing ingredients for recipes, but they also make cooking much safer since there’s less chance that you’ll cut yourself.
When I first started cooking, since I was mostly self [...]

This is what happens after a long day at work when you promised your kids you’d make sweet potato fries when you get home. They don’t forget, & you tend to get silly.
The result – how Stonehenge was really built, if the world was inhabited by Mr Potato-Heads instead of people.
Sweet potato fries are a [...]

Photo by DennisSylvesterHurd
Rice cookers are not vegetable steamers that can also be used for rice.  They are a highly specialized appliance that can prepare any type of rice perfectly, and all you need to do is add the ingredients. Rice cookers will also keep the rice warm once it is fully cooked, and even reheat [...]

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There’s a reason this is the first post on this page, and the title says it all – I love my Kitchen Aid stand mixer. My KSM90, in Empire Green was the first small appliance I purchased back in the early 90’s and almost 20 yrs later, it still mixes, beats, and kneads [...]