Oh, summer! The season for backyard parties that center around the grill. It's so much fun (if it's not too hot!). Dump cans or bottles of beer in a cooler filled with ice, …
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Kitchen Tools
For the Fluffiest and Smoothest Mashed Potatoes, Use a Food Mill
It was Biba Caggiano whom I first saw use a food mill. She had a show on Discovery Channel a long time ago and, when making tomato sauce, she always pureed fresh tomatoes with …
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Color Coded Cutting Boards: Are They A Necessity?
Growing up in Asia, I have always used solid wood blocks as chopping board. Later, I switched to bamboo. Plastic was a last resort. Today, plastic cutting boards are color …
For Our Wedding Anniversary, I Got A Severin Raclette Grill!
We love communal eating here at home. We do hot pot, fondue and tabletop grilling although not nearly as often as we'd like. And now, we add another communal cooking tool—for …
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Holiday Gift Ideas for the Serious Cook
December is almost upon us! Most of us are looking forward to the holiday break and hosting or attending family reunions. Central to these reunions is giving and receiving …
Brewed Coffee, the French Press Way
How do you start your day? What's the first thing you reach for? The newspaper? Toast? Or coffee? I'm a coffee person. I'm a zombie without it. I usually have two cups before …
How To Use a Kitchen Thermometer
There are various kinds of kitchen thermometers in the market. Some are digital, others are analog, prices range from cheap to expensive, but they are all categorized …
Egg Timer: the Gadget for Cooking Perfect Soft and Hard Boiled Eggs
I like to think that, when cooking eggs in the shell, there are three stages: soft boiled, medium boiled and hard boiled.Soft boiled eggs have fully cooked egg whites …
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Kinds of grill, temperature control and the distance between the food and the heat
Normally, monsoon season should be in full swing by June. Not this year though. It's mid-June and while we get showers now and then, the days are still mostly sunny and humid. …
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Getting the Best Out of Your Slow Cooker
I'm late in the slow cooker game. Not for lack of a slow cooker (I've had one for years) but because my first experience cooking meat in it didn't turn out so well. The beef …
You need at least one kitchen spider
I’m not talking about the insect. I don’t like insects in my kitchen, spider or otherwise. I’m talking about the cooking utensil that you’ve probably seen before in Chinese …
How to choose a blender that’s right for you
We've murdered a lot of blenders in this house. From the first Osterizer that I bought before I became a mommy to the Tefal that I got when Alex was fitted with braces and had …