Kitchen Basics

Homemade Egg Noodles in a neat pile next to two egg yolks
Kitchen Basics

Perfect Homemade Egg Noodles

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If you have a proud Italian in your life you’ve inevitable heard, “My nonni made the best pasta ever! No, seriously, you don’t understand.” Yeah, we probably don’t. My gran gran never made homemade egg noodles, but, then again she wasn’t Italian. She did make salsa capable of burning your […]

Plate of roll cut sauteed carrots next to carrot leaves
Kitchen Basics, Sides

The Best Sautéed Carrots

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Excellent: the dialogue in The Philadelphia Story, any summer in the PNW, new socks, and properly sautéed carrots. Something magical happens when coconut oil and carrots meet. They become friends, but like instantly finishing each other’s sentences, friends. Time to sauté some carrots. LET’S GET COOKING INGREDIENTS carrots coconut oil […]

Chicken Stock with carrots, celery, and garlic
Kitchen Basics

Better Chicken Stock

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In the face of uncertain markets, one stock remains a sure bet: chicken stock. And when you’re making it at home, it’s flavorful, money-saving, and saves the planet! [I made that last one up, but, change my mind.] Time to get our chicken stock on! INGREDIENTS chicken carcass [or whole […]

Homemade Whipped Cream - SO easy!
Dessert, Kitchen Basics

Homemade Whipped Cream

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Canned whipped cream? Sure, if you like 14-ingredients when 3 work even better. Next time your friends are over, break out your hand mixer and rub their faces in your culinary prowess. You’re welcome. LET’S GET COOKIN’ INGREDIENTS whipping cream vanilla extract maple syrup This whipped cream begins and ends […]

Roasted Garlic
Kitchen Basics

Roasted Garlic

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It’s all about the roasted garlic. Roasting your garlic is like putting an REI sticker on your 4Runner, feeling guilty after finishing the entire tub of ice cream by yourself even after your wife told you to stop, or wondering why it’s called Laffy Taffy when no one’s laughing. Somethings […]

Soft Homemade Tortillas Without Lard
Kitchen Basics, Sides

The Best Tortillas No Lard Required

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Ever make homemade tortillas and thought “I should have just bought some at the store.”? Well, these aren’t those tortillas. My Hispanic step mother has been making these for years. Did she know I’d poach the recipe and plaster it all over the interwebs? Probably. Ingredients AP flour baking soda […]