Navigating your way to perfectly cooked recipes can be compared to taking a short road trip. The recipe is your map. If you follow the directions, you can be reasonably confident that you will get the desired results. However, recipes, just like maps, make a lot of assumptions! A map assumes that you have aContinue reading “Navigating Best Practices: Cooking with Oil”
Category Archives: Kitchen Tips and Hacks
Navigating Cooking Oils
Learn how the right cooking oil can mean the difference between achieving a beautiful sear or coughing in a smoke-filled kitchen in this 3-minute video.
Navigating Cookware
Navigating your way around cookware can be confusing, frustrating, and expensive. Let Jane, your Kitchen GPS guide your way to choosing the right pans for your recipes.
Kitchen Tips & Hacks: Cooking with Vinegar
Learn the Fab Five Vinegars that you want in your pantry.
Kitchen Tips & Hacks: Easy as Pie!
Making pies should be fun, not stressful! This kitchen hack makes it easy to bake delicious pies for holidays, special occasions and just because you want pie.
Kitchen Tips & Hacks: Easy “Hard Boiled” Eggs
Learn the secrets to perfect hard-boil eggs (spoiler alert – don’t boil them!). No more green yolks and rubbery whites. Plus, a never-fail technique to flawlessly peel eggs.
Kitchen Tips & Hacks: Got (evaporated) Milk?
Evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk are not interchangeable products. They may sound a lot like, often look alike, and sit next to each other on store shelves. It’s easy to get confused! However, they are very different. Each has it’s own set of qualities and serves a different purpose in a recipe.
Kitchen Tips & Hacks: Flour Power
It’s FLOUR POWER time! Sift through the differences between cake flour, bread flour, self-rising flour, and all-purpose flour. What makes them different? Are they necessary? Are there substitutions?
Kitchen Tips & Hacks: Curses, foiled again!
Don’t be foiled by parchment paper, wax paper and aluminum wrap. All are useful but not always interchangeable. Learn when to use what.
Kitchen Tips & Hacks: Excuse my French!
You don’t have to speak French to implement a simple system to eliminate 95% of kitchen disasters! This five step formula will greatly enhance your cooking success ratio while making it a lot easier. It’s all about getting organized before you start cooking or mise en place.