Equipment
25 April 2008 by
Jean Johnson
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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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 ...
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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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