Posts tagged with ‘onions’

When a new client reaches out to me for in-home cooking lessons, they’re sent a survey that helps me better understand their cooking challenges. I would say 1 out of 3 responses come back with the plea, “I need more ideas on how to cook chicken!” Since chicken is the most common protein cooked in American homes, it’s no wonder [...]

I know that the store-bought rotisserie chicken is a constant in the grocery cart of many families. It’s why every store carries them. A few Fridays ago, I found myself in my local Whole Foods when they announced their Friday special – $5 rotisserie chickens! No joke! You can’t even get a pint of strawberries for $5 at Whole Foods, [...]

If it’s a vegetable, I promise you I’ve tried to puree it into a soup with my immersion blender. And since we’re ingredient spotlighting broccoli this week, I think you can guess what recipe we’re featuring today: a pureed broccoli soup. Every week I place a head of broccoli in my grocery cart, so I’ve developed a pretty good rotation of [...]

We announced yesterday that we would be doing an Ingredient Spotlight on broccoli this week. Just because the Supreme Court won’t argue for broccoli, doesn’t mean that somebody shouldn’t. We’re kicking off our three-part broccoli recipe series with one of my favorite breakfasts, lunches, and dinners: the frittata. If you’ve never made a frittata, pick up a carton of eggs after [...]

I absolutely love the flavors of Thai cooking. For a long, long time though, I thought it wasn’t something you could easily make at home, so I had set it aside in my “Ethnic Food Only for Eating Out or Takeout” category (this is also where monster burritos reside). But then I had a friend make a red curry for [...]

This is our 3rd and final recipe in the Cauliflower Ingredient Spotlight series. In this last recipe, we wanted to showcase the vegetable in its purest form using one of our favorite cooking formulas the Sear and Roast and show you how meaty cauliflower can be, even on its own. Cauliflower steak? Maybe you think I’m trying to pull one [...]