How I managed to live without a crock-pot, I will never know…but that is a digression into life before cooking.
Winter days are for hibernating, contemplating, and in general slowing down. Seasonally this is the time to eat warming, grounding, slow-cooked foods. The crock-pot was made for winter, and it truly makes winter dining [...]
Yes, it’s quite possible to become excited about kitchen appliances. One of my essential appliances is a fuzzy-logic, rice cooker with a manual button for rice porridge.
For one thing, the rice cooker ‘thinks’ for itself. So if I’ve added too much water or not enough, it will adjust temperature and heating time to create rice [...]
This is a first in a series I will be presenting on experiments in the kitchen. In Chinese Medicine, we see food, the stuff we chew, swallow, and digest as the first and most important line in medicine. What we eat has a cumulative effect on our overall health, so it’s important to [...]
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