Equipment
18 December 2009 by
Jean Johnson
Ah, yes, I remember my own trip to Mexico as a food writer. Here's one of my photos:
So Mark Bittman's recent NYT piece on Mexican markets was a nice reminder of my own cruise-arama. Here he's talking about how Mexican women get fresh veggies on the table pronto--but he ...
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25 April 2009 by
Jean Johnson
Havoc rip 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 ...
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25 April 2008 by
Jean Johnson
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Microplanes do such wonderful things to food. Use a petite one to grate nutmeg over your latte in the morning. Or nab the grande sized tool for zesting citrus and turning Parmesan into the stuff of the goddesses.
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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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15 August 2007 by
Jean Johnson
If you hang around long, you'll find that measure free cooking doesn't require spendy equipment--or much equipment. There are, though, a few things that I find indispensable, and one of them is a nice deep mortar and pestle. As you can see in the image, the mortar is simply clay ...
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