by Chef Todd | Mar 24, 2017 | cooking basics
Simple cooking is the best cooking. There, I said it for the 1000th time! No matter where I travel, no matter with whom I speak, the people that know good food say the same thing. “Simple things are good things” In a fish market on Hawaii, the local fish monger...
by Chef Todd | Aug 2, 2016 | cooking basics
“When is my steak done?” People always ask me, “When is my steak done?” “When is my chicken done?” and “How do I tell when my food is done cooking?” I’m confident that everyone recognizes when they START cooking, but most home cooks aren’t...
by Chef Todd | Apr 13, 2016 | cooking basics
People are always waiving knives at me! For years, people came to my cooking school brandishing blades, gesturing wildly, and imploring me, “Is this a good knife?” A “good knife” has little to do with the size of the blade, the color of the...
by Chef Todd | Sep 2, 2014 | cooking basics
There’s a recipe out there that will ruin your ability to cook. It’s lurking in one of those many, many, many recipe books you’ve been collecting. It’s not camouflaged, it’s there in black and white with a nice color picture but you may...
by Chef Todd | Jul 17, 2014 | cooking basics
I’m asked a LOT of cooking questions, many of them about failed cheese sauce. Every day I’m reminded of the confusion that abounds about cooking when I open my email, chat with my WebCookingClasses members, go to my Facebook page, or contribute to a forum....
by Chef Todd | Jun 5, 2014 | cooking basics
I’ve been making my own barbeque sauce since I was a kid, it’s a really easy sauce to make, but it caused conflict in my household before I knew about home canning. I’d make gallons of my “New York Attitude” Barbeque Sauce and portion it into used plastic Wonton...