Posts Tagged ‘utensils’

Cooking Utensils – Very Basic – Item 3 – Knife Sharpener

07/10/2010

Assuming you already have a fork, spoon, knife, plates, some kind of frying pan and a basic pot of some sort, there are only 3 things that  a real cook needs.   This is the third.  See other posts for items 1 (chef’s knife) and 2 (cutting board).

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Cooking Utensils – Very Basic – Item 2 – Cutting Board

12/17/2009

Assuming you already have a fork, spoon, knife, plates, some kind of frying pan and a basic pot of some sort, there are only 3 things that  a real cook needs.   This is the second.  See other posts for items 1 (knife) and 3 (knife sharpener).

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French Onion Soup – Like it used to be – Famous-Barr

12/07/2009

It used to be that people would go to standalone department stores to shop.  Call them the old downtown department stores, if you will.  Some of these most likely still exist in some of the larger cities.  After hours of walking around in these cavernous multi-floor stores, people naturally became hungry.  It was the custom that most stores had some sort of cafeteria available where people could stop their empty stomach from talking back, rest their weary feet and most likely, to the store owner’s delight, keep them in the store.  In each cafeteria, no matter how average all the other food was, there was usually one specialty that became a must for every shopping trip.  This recipe is one of the musts served at the old mid-west Famous-Barr department stores.

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Cooking Utensils – Very Basic – Item 1 – Chef’s Knife

12/05/2009

Assuming you already have a fork, spoon, knife, plates, some kind of frying pan and a basic pot of some sort, there are only 3 things that  a real cook needs.   This is the first.  See other posts for items 2 (cutting board) and 3 (knife sharpener).

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