Check your spices for freshness
Do you have commercially-packaged dried herbs or spices still in their original containers? Manufacturers including Durkee, McCormick, and Spice Island have online resources that allow you to find out...
View ArticleSave Your Vegetable Scraps for Stock
There's a certain simple beauty that can be attained by taking things that would otherwise be wasted and turning them into something delicious. I have a middling-sized air-tight plastic container that...
View ArticleWhat To Do When You Have Extra Fresh Herbs
Image by Shawn AllenFresh herbs are wonderful, but you can't always use them before they go bad. Luckily, you have some alternatives.Option 1: Try to keep them freshThere are a few commercial products...
View ArticleBurning Things
Image by Julian BurgessI've been thinking about smoked food lately. This might be because I have several pounds of beef back ribs in my freezer. I was wondering what sort of wood to use to smoke them...
View ArticleRehydrating Dried Herbs
Sometimes, you need to make do with what you have.Sometimes, what you have is dried parsley flakes.There's no use crying about it. The parsley in your refrigerator went bad a couple of days ago. You...
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