The Cook Counts To
25 April 2009 by
Jean Johnson
This post is for one of the women at the last cooking class I did. I was talking about how much it streamlines cooking when you keep things you use a lot out handy. She wanted to know what was out on my counter.
Well, here it is--at least this is ...
Posted in Equipment, Flavor, Getting on a Roll, Measurefree Cooking, The Cook Counts To, Work Area & The Stove | 10 Comments »
22 November 2008 by
Jean Johnson
Thanksgiving Breakfast complete with Cottage Cream and KBJ's Cranberries is such gorgeous food--as delicious as it is healthy and affordable.
Indeed, that's what measure free cooking is all about. But a cookbook without measurements and prescriptive rote directions is so unprecedented that people tend can get wrapped up in the ...
Posted in Breakfasts, Fall, Family, Friends, & Love, Fruit, Getting on a Roll, Holidays, Innocent Sweets, Measurefree Cooking, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, The Cook Counts To, Vegetables, Vegetarian | 2 Comments »
18 December 2007 by
Jean Johnson
This shot was at breakfast per the cup of black coffee and bowl of cereal. Then there's a tray of winter squash ready for the oven and a basket of kale from the garden waiting for all manner of magic along with a beautiful lemon.
Clearly my stove is nothing extra, but it does ...
Posted in Celeste and HH, Family, Friends, & Love, Measurefree Cooking, The Cook Counts To, Ultrafast, Work Area & The Stove | Add a Comment »
15 October 2007 by
Jean Johnson
It's mid-October but the kitchen garden still giveth. Today there was broccoli, roasting ears, a couple small lonesome zucchinis, and a cartload of Anaheim chiles. Seemed like dinner to me.
All it took was a douse of water (which in truth was some cinnamon tea left in the teapot) in ...
Posted in Beans, Culti-Multi Food, Dinner, Equipment, Fall, Flash Cooking, Fresh, Lunches, Measurefree Cooking, Salads, Seasonal, Spices, The Cook Counts To | Add a Comment »
2 September 2007 by
Jean Johnson
Measure free cooking is speedy but that doesn't mean we have to miss the ride as I explain in Cooking Beyond Measure, page 77. . . Fresh garlic can usher us into the moment if we let it. The humble aromatic a doorway into the peace of the cosmos. Even ...
Posted in Fall, Flavor, Fresh, Playing with Your Food, Scratch Cooking, Spring, Summer, The Cook Counts To, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter | Add a Comment »
22 August 2007 by
Jean Johnson
Of all the tomatoes I grow, Brandywines take the blue ribbon. So they are the ones I turn to time and again for that wonderful Italian creation: slabs of home grown tomatoes interwoven with slices of fresh mozzarella and dressed simply with sweet basil in some form or another.
My approach ...
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9 August 2007 by
Jean Johnson
This dish wouldn't work any time except when the apricots are at their prime. Just ask my friend Olive who enjoyed this with me one balmy Portland August evening. All it takes is a few plump softies along with room temperature blue cheese to pull this heavenly dessert together.And that's ...
Posted in Cheese, Desserts, Family, Friends, & Love, Innocent Sweets, Seasonal, Summer, The Cook Counts To, Ultrafast, Vegetarian | 1 Comment »
