I’m not sure what’s sexier: a laser thermometer, or cooking food without reaching a boiling temperature. Hm…. The other week I tried cooking chicken breast using the sous vide method – that is, under vacuum. If food is under vacuum, then the cooking temperature doesn’t have to be as high for the food to …
Category Archives: kitchen experiments
lettuce out!
We are attempting to grow organic baby salad mix from seed in an old wooden drawer that has been propped up on our apartment window sill. So far, little tendrils have shot up! Here’s to hoping that they continue to flourish so we can have some truly local salads this summer!
stock pizza.
While some people peep into their friends’ medicine cabinets to develop an overgeneralized conclusion of the owners’ character, I peep into their freezers. When we first started dating, Longer Hollow Legs had a steady supply of frozen pizzas occupying the frosty depths of his ice box. How this is a reflection of his psyche I do …
a stack of crepes.
In another life, I spent a summer waitressing at a crepe restaurant in cottage country. This was a year or so after a crepe restaurant would open up on a very busy intersection in the city I grew up in, and a few years before I would move to a city where yet another crepe …
seeds of change.
If the ginger doesn’t work out, at least I have little nibs of parsley that are starting to grow! It is amazing and humbling to watch the transformation of nature, especially when it happens in a little clay pot on my windowsill. Thanks Momma Earth!
wait and see.
Hot off the success of replanting store-bought green onions, I have stuck a nub of store-bought ginger root into some soil. We shall see if anything comes of it.
me so proud!
LOOOOOK!!!! In two weeks, the green onions that I replanted have grown to be almost their original size! I’m so happy and proud of them! I look forward to snipping them into salads and omelettes and the like, while whispering loving words to encourage them to regrow. Happy day!
spring is in our kitchen!
Or at the very least, spring onions (also known as green onions or scallions, if you please). In an effort to encourage growth and new things and all that fun spring-y stuff, I attempted to plant a bundle of organic green onions that I picked up from the grocery store! I made sure to choose …
wontons: wrapped, unwrapped.
When I was growing up, we would often eat out, Chinese style, for Sunday lunches. My parents would take my groggy brother and I to loud, gritty restaurants (loud/gritty = better food, naturally), and slouching in cracked vinyl chairs we would order giant bowls of steaming noodles and dumplings. Everything set before us would swim …
tea time expands time.
Playing around with tea blends is a good way to whittle the afternoon away in the kitchen. Here is a blend of chrysanthemum flowers, green cardamom, sliced almonds, fennel and cumin seeds. Steeped on its own or with a small strip of candied ginger dropped in to lend a touch of sweet spiciness, this blend …