Essential Knife Maintenance #KitchenProfessor

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them – Masaharu Morimoto. So today, to take care of these soulful tools that we so lovingly buy after much research and sometimes after leaving a big gaping hole in the pocket, Doug is giving us all a few very useful instructions on essential knife maintenance. Doug blogs at The Kitchen Professor, and while his degree is honorary (bestowed upon him by his wife), he has enjoyed cooking his whole life. He loves using old cast iron, BBQ,and loves adding the small, special touch to a recipe …

Rosemary Hot Oil Treatment & Petoskey and Pine

A few weeks ago, Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm created a panel of bloggers to try out artisnal handmade bath products from a company called Petsokey and Pine. She asked if we would like to try the product and asked us for an honest opinion. The company gave the bloggers the choice of picking up the soap for trial and once we sent in our choices, they promptly shipped it with a sweet handwritten note and a lip balm.  I was really excited to try the soap because I loved the sound of Orange Tea …

10 spicy ideas for a Superbowl Sunday

This is the first time ever since I moved here to Colorado, that our Denver Broncos will be fighting it out in the Superbowl. It took me a while to get warmed up to watching a game that is called football but where the foot part of the body is used only to kick or run. For the rest of the world football usually means soccer and I did arrive here from the rest of the world. Having been a sports enthusiast most of my life, It only took a little while for me to get hooked to the game, …

Roasted Butternut Squash – How to

There are some things that don’t change much. I find the smell of a dish, or the way a certain spice is crushed, or just a quick look at the way something has been put on a plate, can pull me back to another place and time. I love those memories that seem so far away, yet you can hold them and carry them with you, even forget them, and then, with a single taste or hint or a smell, be chaperoned back to a beautiful moment.” ― Tessa Kiros That beautiful moment for me is the very first time …

The Perfectly Boiled Egg

  Eggs! The miracle food that saves this mom on days she is not very organized. And saves her during those times when she hears the door open and the “Mom I am hungry” rather than “hey Mom Guess what!”  And on those days too when the mom wants to work the yard or sit and knit and just plain does  not want to cook. On those days, the ever pleasant eggs come to my rescue. Don’t want to cook ? No problem. The “lil me” who is now a TerriFIC (ble) Tween can cook delicious omelets  ever since she was 7  …