Notes on Cooking – Review and Giveaway – Winner!
October 22, 2009 | Written by Diana
Thanks for all of the great suggestions. Don’t be afraid to fail is one of my favorite, though if you have kids you’ll never forget the failures. Believe me, I know. I’m not allowed to make pumpkin lasagna again. Take out all of your ingredients first, Mise en Place – I believe. My dad did that and woe to anyone around when he figured out he was missing something. You had to walk to the store to pick it up.
Our winner is Deborah R. – She said to let the pie dough rest for 15 minutes before rolling it out. That’s one I will try next time I make pie dough.
Deborah R. , send me your postal information so that I can pass it on.
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Notes on Cooking – Review and Giveaway
October 14, 2009 | Written by Diana
Notes on Cooking – A Short Guide to an Essential Craft by Lauren Braun Costello and Russell Reich is a great cool little book with lots of cooking tips, hints, guidelines and rules, but not a recipe book at all. The book is small looking, but packed with pages and pages of sensible rules, some you may know and others might not occur to you.
My favorite rule is one that never occurred to anyone in my family growing up, but you hear over and over on food network and other cooking shows.
Let Meat Rest-After any meat is cooked, allow it to come to rest for at least ten minutes so that the internal juices redistribute evenly before carving. If carved immediately from the oven, all the concentrated juices run from the meat, making what could have been very juicy meat, dry and tough.
Here’s a rule my daughter has trouble with because she never leaves enough time:
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