Here’s a list of some of the more commonly-used but lesser understood cooking terms to make your time in the kitchen easier. And don’t forget to link up with your own Thursday {Thirteen}.
A la king - An American dish of diced foods, usually chicken or turkey, in a cream sauce with pimientos, mushrooms, green peppers and sometimes sherry
Aging - A process for tenderizing meats by keeping them at a temperature between 00C and 20C for a period of time. This allows enzymes to break down the tough [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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