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4 Innovative Cocktail Mixers, Cubed
These mixers get the ice, ice, baby, treatment By Maryse Chevriere, Editor This article originally appeared at The Daily Meal Freezing Bloody Mary mix into ice cubes to use in an innovative, modern take on a Bloody Mary. It’s the kind of idea you can’t help but look at and think, “Damn, that’s clever, why…
Chef 101 Humpday: I got my Wok-On!
We haven’t used a wok since our old kitchen in our old house because we had an electric stove in the new one. (And, to clarify, that “we” was just Eddie over our old gas stove.) I never could figure out how he did it. But, with my NEW gas stove, and my NEW wok,…
Recipe Sunday: Let Chef Dawn Walker cook for you!
I met Chef Dawn Walker of DawnsDinners.com in 2009. Yes, it was only a year ago that I started cooking for my family, and writing the Chef 101 Wednesday-Humpday articles. Before that Chef Dawn cooked for my family on a weekly basis. I loved driving to her place and rummaging through her freezer for creamy…
Recipe Sunday: Roasted Figs with Red Wine-Fig Sauce
From October 2005, Food and Wine magazine: ACTIVE: 15 MIN TOTAL TIME: 40 MIN SERVINGS: 4 FAST VEGETARIAN HEALTHY Ingredients 20 purple figs (about 1 1/2 pounds), stems trimmed 2 tablespoons melted unsalted butter 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar 1 cup dry red wine 2 mint sprigs 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half Ground…
Chef 101 Humpday: Why don’t we eat Corned Beef every day?
I’ve avoided making Corned Beef so far in my one-year journey into cooking because St. Paddy’s Day hadn’t come up yet! But now that it has how is it that I don’t remember it ever tasting this good (mom?) when I was a kid? Was it the Orange juice that softened it? The 12 hours…
Meet Sangria’s more devilish brother, Sangrita: A traditional south of the border aperitif
For the curious imbiber interested in a devilish alternative, meet Sangrita, Sangria’s mischievous south-of-the-border brother. Sangrita – meaning “little blood” – is the traditional non-alcoholic aperitif originating from Guadalajara, Mexico. Served in a small shot glass it is typically made from a combination of fruit juices (such as orange, cucumber or papaya), mixed with fine…
Chef 101 Humpday Recipe: Teriyaki (homemade!) Chicken Wings
I’ve never considered making a homemade sauce that I can buy in a bottle. I mean, gee, do people make Ranch Dressing or Ketchup or Pickle Relish or Soy Sauce, or fill-in-the-blank, dressings on their own? Of course, Chef EDDIE Bushman makes reduction sauces, Bearnaise and Hollandaise from scratch…but we ran out of his recipes…
Chef 101 Humpday Recipe: Lemoncello Martini Sans Sugar-Sweetness
I don’t do sweet. Now and then I may have a port, or dessert wine, or even a sparkling wine with strawberries. But my palate doesn’t do sugary sweet cocktails. This recipe, is in accordance with that, and for all other adults that are like-minded. I’m also a purist, or at least I’m striving to…