How to Make Vegetable Stock

Vegetable stock is usually the first step one takes on their long journey toward becoming a chef, and I was … Continue reading How to Make Vegetable Stock

Homemade Miso Soup

This might be the easiest soup to make from scratch that you’ve ever encountered (as long as you have the … Continue reading Homemade Miso Soup

Thanksgiving, whether Americans realize it or not, is when we celebrate food. As such, Thanksgiving is the closest thing to … Continue reading Our Newlywed Thanksgiving: cooking a Thanksgiving dinner for two

In this post, I’ll teach you how to make a mornay sauce, which is more commonly just called cheese sauce. … Continue reading How To Make Cheese Sauce From Scratch

Shellfish, like crab and lobster, aren’t as daunting to cook as you might think. We picked up live crab and … Continue reading How to Cook Dungeoness Crab

Ever the ambitious home cook, my fiancé usually manages to think of something delicious that she doesn’t quite know how … Continue reading Homemade Lasagne: using pre-cooked pasta sheets, assembly, and cooking techniques

Just like everything in cooking (and in life), you need to do simple, right. Don’t be fooled, there is no … Continue reading The simple, ultimate way to cook Swordfish

Kids, this one’s important. Sometimes in life, you come across large pieces of meat offered to you by friends. You … Continue reading How to handle big pieces of meat

I had no idea I was making pancakes differently than maybe most people, until my fiancée brought it up while … Continue reading Perfect pancakes

The other night, my fiance and I were throwing around dinner ideas, against the backdrop of “it’s late,” and “I’m … Continue reading Easy, Scratch Tomato Sauce: Impossible to Mess Up!