I’ll face it. I have before grabbed a damp kitchen towel and dropped my cookie sheet, spraying the floor with delicious cookies. I am not too proud to admit it. “Use an oven mitt doofus”, you may be saying (rightfully) right now. But the reason I didn’t was because my oven mitts were so worn through that my finger stuck out if I didn’t tuck it in quite right. Time to get serious. So I did. I got two that…
I’m a big fan of simple ingredients and the lemon while one of the simplest of ingredients, yields one of the most complex and interesting flavors you can add to a dish. While the white pith, between the outer peel and the juicy center, isn’t my favorite to cook with, the exterior zest should not be missed when you are juicing citrus. Some recipes only call for juice, so I zest the lemons first using my beloved Microplane and smash…
Some of my favorite kitchen tools are the most straight forward. Just like a t-shirt and jeans, these things just work. Plain and simple. A mortar and pestle can get you out of having cabinets full of electric gadgets and doo dads that are hard to store and hard to clean. Anyone with a small kitchen will appreciate the storage dilemma of a food processor, blender, mixer, etc. and all of the blades and parts that go with them. While…