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Kitchen Tip: Mise en Place

Food, How-To

Share:TwitterFacebookPinterestTumblrGoogle+StumbleUponemail I’m going to be up front with you here. Most of the time, when I’m finished cooking, my kitchen looks slightly as though it’s been ransacked. When I try to clean as I go, I get distracted from…

Kitchen Tip: Knife Skills

Food, How-To

Share:TwitterFacebookPinterestTumblrGoogle+StumbleUponemail Every budding chef needs a chef’s knife, which has a broad, tapered shape and a fine sharp edge. Every chef also needs to learn a few basic knife skills (are you thinking about the scene in Julie & Julia…

Baked Sweet Potato Fries

Worknight Dinners

Share:TwitterFacebookPinterestTumblrGoogle+StumbleUponemail Growing up, the only sweet potatoes I knew were served with Thanksgiving dinner, smothered in marshmallows and brown sugar. Then I learned about baked sweet potato fries. Now I’ll take a sweet potato over its whiter, starchier counterpart just…