When I went to an Asian grocery store, I was overwhelmed by all the ingredients I saw there. At that point, I had been living in San Francisco for a year and a half working with asian dating on their mission to bring people together, and I thought I had a pretty good idea of [...]
So what makes a good wine recipe? Come on now this is not really a very difficult question. If you fancy yourself a decent cook at all then you should be able to figure this one out for yourself. Cooking up some food and cooking up some wine are very similar processes … just as [...]
Rice cookers and steamers are among the most versatile small appliances you can purchase. These little appliances are not just another fad tool that will end up in your appliance graveyard. They are very useful and can be used cooking many other foods than just rice. Most do that task very well making perfect rice [...]
Not every loaf will come out picture perfect, but that’s OK. Live and learn. If one of your modified bread maker recipes fails to rise properly, it’s still just as tasty when you dip it in that bowl of stew. Just make a note or two on how you might adjust the ingredients next time. [...]
I have been doing some more crazy experiments with making my own wine recently, and you know one thing I have found is that as fun as it is to change recipes up a little bit and see what you can come up with, more often than not then end result is far worse than [...]
