Archive for February, 2008
Another one of the things I want to talk about here is something that I’ve become fascinated with in the last few years… Spices. Like herbs, spices are used in cooking to impart different flavors to the food that they’re cooked into. They can range from mild to potent, sweet to hot and peppery. A [...]
February 21st, 2008 | Posted in Food Info, Spices | Comments Off
Mint is more than just a popular flavor to mix with chocolate and candies. It’s an herb. Specifically there are a couple of main varieties of mint. Spearmint and Peppermint. Spearmint has pointed oval leaves with serrated edges, a deep green color and the flavor is cooling without being pungent. Spearmint is used in a [...]
February 20th, 2008 | Posted in Food Info, Herbs | Comments Off
Having had an occasion to think about it recently, I have to say that there’s really only one thing that can be a downside to learning all sorts of new stuff about food and cooking… and that is what it can do to the number you see when you step on the scale. Now honestly, [...]
February 19th, 2008 | Posted in From The Cook, kitchen talk, Odds & Ends | Comments Off
Simple Daily Recipes is one of those food blogs that I’m going to be going back to. It’s loaded with a wide variety of recipes from desserts to main courses and just about anything in between. There’s another feature that I want to start using here as opportunity permits and that’s some really good pictures [...]
February 18th, 2008 | Posted in Cooking Blogs, Recipies, Reviews | Comments Off
Because I saw some Kohls coupon codes and spent some time looking around the Kohls website for a while I ended up paging through their Kitchen & Dining section. I think it was about a little over a year or a year and a half or so ago when we discovered the food network and [...]
February 17th, 2008 | Posted in Chefs, Food Prep, Food TV, From The Cook, kitchen talk, Odds & Ends | Comments Off