How-Tos

Cool articles on how foods work, what you can do with them, etc.

Drury Lane Muffin Collection

What’s the “DruryLane™” secret to great muffins? Find out, in this introduction to a suite of recipes sure to bring your baking to A+ game!

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Chet’s Char: Groovin’ Gravlax

Lox of Love Gravlax has a “lox” on smoked salmon. It puts the deli into delicious. Well, at least Google Keywords will be happy with that corny riff! Meet Chet's Char. Char is a fish that is very similar to...

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Plating Tips – Chili Mac Attack!

  Presentation at home is a thing. Thinking outside of the box for some fun in the way that your plating looks can take even the most basic foods and give them a little new life.It's particularly good "A-game" plating when...

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Green Heroin: How to Buy Addictive Hatch New Mexican Chiles

Updated 2023.05.12THE COOK’S TOURI have something to confess: I am horribly, horribly addicted... To Hatch green chiles!  I'm not alone. There are hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans (That square state next to Arizona that the weather man stands in front...

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Baksheesh Popcorn

  Why would I call this riff on my house popcorn a bribe (baksheesh)? Everyone who cooks for a family knows that there are a few things that will win over that person stuck doing chores or honey-dos that aren't always 'fun.'  The...

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Why Avocado Oil is Going to be Your Go-To Cooking Oil

Avocado oil is a "fruit" oil as avocados are, well, fruit, like olives.Its culinary use is the single biggest "discovery" in cooking fats in a generation that will revolutionize the way that you cook.High in monounsaturates like olive oil,  Big Green's...

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Cooking Perfect Eggs: Go Low And Slow

REVISED 03.06.21 - 90% of us, pro and home chefs alike, have cooked eggs, one of the most common foods on the planet, wrong. For generations! The often rubbery rubbish, coated in burned fats which we turn toxic, from the sandy-yolked...

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Risen Fried Eggs

  Fried EGGS THAT RISE SOFTLYBefore you begin, take a minute to read my article on Perfect Eggs, and the science that 99.95% of chefs, pro and home, ignore that will transform your egg dishes!Even fried eggs benefit from low and...

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Kashmere Ketchup

 Authenticity Ground Zero is making one of the most commonly used condiments in the United States, and found around the globe in one form or another: Ketchup.Kashmere Ketchup is my smooth, soulful, tangy way of honoring The Kashmere Stage Band,  heart...

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