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  • Recipe Ingredient Spotlight
    Ingredient Spotlight
    When I was a student at the CIA, I loved looking at the giant containers of spices in each kitchen – seemingly huge compared to those tiny bottles normally purchased at the grocery store. When I did a costing assignment, I was floored to see[...]
  • Recipe Ingredient Spotlight: Pasta
    Ingredient Spotlight: Pasta
    Pasta is a great food for the apartment kitchen. Even though Matt doesn’t like it as much (I know, right? Doesn’t seem possible…), I find myself whipping it up in all sorts of situations. Why? Well, there’s the obvious[...]
  • Recipe ingredient spotlight: yeast
    ingredient spotlight: yeast
    Does yeast scare you? Do you start to break out in a cold sweat when you read the sentence “dissolve the packet of yeast in warm water”? Have you never attempted to make bread from scratch because of your phobia? Do[...]
  • Recipe ingredient spotlight: lemon
    ingredient spotlight: lemon
    Currently, I’m really digging: the Alison Krauss and Robert Plant album fresh honeycomb from Savannah Bee Company on…everything garage green screens fresh fennel a sweet t-shirt from 1996 that I just found in the[...]
  • Recipe ingredient spotlight: butter
    ingredient spotlight: butter
    What makes your pancakes so gloriously golden and crisp around the edges? Butter does! What takes your grilled cheese sandwich to the whole next level? Butter does! What makes your chocolate chip cookies so[...]
  • Recipe Ingredient Spotlight: Vinegar
    Ingredient Spotlight: Vinegar
    I love vinegar for many reasons. I love it’s flavor – I truly believe that most of the time, when you taste a dish and you think “Huh, something is missing”…that missing ingredient is acid. It’s tart, tangy, and[...]
  • Recipe ingredient spotlight: vanilla
    ingredient spotlight: vanilla
    Fact: I’m a self-professed, die-hard chocoholic. I keep a secret stash of the good stuff (lindt dark sea salt, baby) in a kitchen drawer and have been known to smear nutella on just about anything edible. Fact: I don’t[...]
  • Recipe Ingredient Spotlight: Chili Oil
    Ingredient Spotlight: Chili Oil
    Grocery stores continue to surprise me. I can now find an array of not just flavored oils, but specifically chili oils in the aisles. Not just for spice freaks, a good chili oil has amazing pepper flavor – something to truly prize. Add it[...]
  • Recipe Ingredient Spotlight: Olive Bar
    Ingredient Spotlight: Olive Bar
    The olive bar is one of the many loves of my life…and I don’t even like olives very much! Not only can you find more varities and better quality olives than those in glass jars on your grocery store’s shelves, you can get just[...]
  • Recipe Ingredient Spotlight: Bread Flour
    Ingredient Spotlight: Bread Flour
    I love making bread. As a result, I cannot sing the praises and importance of bread flour enough. It’s great for all my favorite loaves, and also for pizza doughs and yeast-raised pastries. Bread flour has a higher gluten content (and less[...]