by Chef Todd | May 11, 2010 | Cooking, cooking tips
Cooking at home is certainly more cost effective than eating out. But in order to cook on a budget, it doesn’t mean that you have to buy cheaper food. Generally, cheaper food is less healthy for you, and everyday cooking should call for the most wholesome ingredients...
by Chef Todd | May 4, 2010 | Cooking, cooking tips
Have you ever wondered how a chef can be told to cook with a few ingredients and they can pull together a dish without using a cookbook? How is that possible? It’s possible because there are chef secrets that we use in cooking every day. They’re the same chef...
by Chef Todd | Apr 27, 2010 | cooking lessons, cooking tips, How to Cook
If you’re looking for easy cooking ideas, stop searching in recipe books! Instead, look at your cooking basics. One of the best basic cooking methods to employ for quick dishes is stove-top sauté. Sauté is a direct source, conductive cooking method that uses intense...
by Chef Todd | Apr 21, 2010 | Cooking, cooking tips
If you missed the live cooking webcast last night, you missed a tremendous evening of fun, food, entertainment and education in basic cooking methods…a virtual cooking guide. In fact, I showed everyone watching how basic cooking methods can help you make dinner...
by Chef Todd | Mar 17, 2010 | Cooking Courses, cooking lessons, cooking tips
If you have a love of cooking like I do, you’re excited about the days getting longer. Honestly, with the exception of cooking for the holidays, cooking in the winter seems more like a chore to me. However, cooking in the spring and summer is cooking for fun. In fact,...
by Chef Todd | Mar 16, 2010 | cooking tips, How to Cook, Science of Cooking
Daylight savings time is the practice of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Although it was originally designed to reduce electric usage, there’s controversy over whether it’s actually had this effect. Now, daylight savings...