I have many feelings about homemade pasta dough. I’ve owned a manual pasta press for over 8 years, but I didn’t know how to make pasta without eggs back then. It always felt like a big deal to make a batch of fresh pasta. You…
An easy pizza dough recipe should be permanently in your collection. It is flexible and can be made fairly quickly! Obviously use it to make a pizza, but the same dough can be used for a vegetable topped focaccia or folded up into a calzone.…
This simple weeknight tomato sauce can give you that wow, this is good! moment when you don’t have a ton of time – or tomatoes. This started out many years ago as a way to make jarred tomato sauce taste better and slowly morphed into…
An easy classic pie crust recipe should be quick and flexible. It’s a great base for many impressive meals, but unless you were raised making it, you probably buy it frozen at the supermarket. But I promise you, it is faster, easier, and cheaper to…
Recipes call for various different types of stock — chicken, beef, lamb, veal, etc. — and you can make all of those following these guidelines, but many restaurants exclusively use dark chicken stock for these applications.
Roux is a mixture of cooked flour and fat for thickening sauces, stews, and soups. It’s an essential part of European culinary tradition, as well as Cajun and Creole cuisine, and many others.
