them (or use them since he rarely cooks). We call them the heirloom spices. I buy most of my spices from our local food coop and only get what I need for the next 3-4 months. That keps them fresh.

Agreed. I’m glad i’m not a tea drinker because servers definitely react that way. I agree that you should be able to order and recieve your tea without feeling as if you are asking the server to do rocket science. It...

I used canned whole tomatoes, but did break them up with a wooden spoon. Just adding that this is the Basic Tomato Sauce in all three books (Molto Italiano p. 71, Babbo p. 220, Simple Italian Food, p. 84). Ingredients are extra...

cutting the grass to a rich dark chocolate stout would would sip by a warm fire with your loved one. Since this the season of giving, it might be helpful to people who want to gift those of us who enjoy the zymurgical science to...

because as people who know me know, I can be a stickler for “tradition” some times, but there has to be a point to it. I eat sushi with my fingers because it’s easier, not because it’s “more...

the chill as an excuse to finally follow Grandma Gertrude’s “rolled cabbage” recipe to the letter. For years I’ve been winging it pretty successfully based on memory alone, but recently my mom gave me...

back, not food, so when I got divorced I gladly stopped the process. It probably would have been less trouble to make a reasonable sized batch. I’ve dug out the old cookbook I got it from. The original recipe is called...

In today’s NY Times, there was an article on recipe deal breakers. That got me thinking... do Chowhounds have deal breakers? Maybe not even just recipe deal breakers but about food in general? I guess apart from not have...

My fiancee and I really enjoy cooking together. We’re both decent cooks and do enjoy our food, from shopping to prep to eating. Since we’re looking for a place one of her provisos (which I agree with) is that there be...

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend on the home cooking board. When people discuss gnocchi, they pay attention to the quality of the ricotta. Much attention is paid to the subtleties of roasting chickens. Generally, people are...

steak, pizza of late, marinara, indian food except for nan which i cant make like them at home since i dont have a tandoor oven.

I don’t think that’s odd at all — kitchen food prep surfaces were made of wood long before most of the other materials being used today. I think it’s a much softer, warmer look than the granite/stone so...

, you may as well chuck it and start again because the sushi will not taste good, there is a surprisingly thin line between too mushy and a little crunchy. So I would say that has been my biggest problem. I always bought tuna...

ditto on the Rogue river blue. I found it at Whole Foods Sacramento and it was the same price as the French roquefort.

there are so many Food & Drug hurdles to jump in the dairy industry. I think people are using the term “buffalo” mozzarella just to distinguish the difference between the many seal wrapped mozzas and the ones packed...