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Many recipes call for minced vegetables and herbs. Unless you’re a committed chopper, it can be annoying to cut things so small. Yet, there’s an easy way to create those tiny pieces—the way professional chefs do. Here, chef Jim Davis shows us the correct way to mincing onions. It’s well worth your time to…
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If your steaks don’t taste as good as restaurant steaks, it could be the quality of the meat. Or it could be your cooking technique. Restaurant chefs start with searing the seasoned steak in a cast-iron skillet or grill pan. Sometimes they finish cooking the meat in the oven. In this demonstration, the seared…
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If you’re making an angel food cake, meringue, soufflé or other baked good that requires the egg whites to be whipped separately, you need to do it correctly in order for your recipe to rise. Here are some tips from Lauren Chattman, author of one of our favorite baking books, The Baking Answer Book (for…
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A standard plate of meat and veggies gets a sprinkling of glamour with pomegranate arils. Get the recipe at PomWonderful.com. If you dine at fine restaurants, you may notice that garniture—the garnish on dish—makes a big difference in presentation. Garnishes can improve any dish, savory or sweet, plain or fancy—a tuna sandwich, filet mignon,…
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Today’s tip is from Chef Johnny Gnall. If you have questions or suggestions for tips, email Chef Johnny. Home cooks can get intimidated by the thought of trying new ingredients. There’s a time-and-money issue of experimenting with something that might not turn out well. But cooking is exploration. Sometimes explorers find that the trip yields…
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