Archive for the 'Chicken' Category

And You Thought Salt Was Simple

We use salt in our daily lives all the time without much thought. It’s just one of those things we have on the table and throw around freely. When we are cooking, however, the salt we chose can make a noticeable difference in the final result. Yes, there are many choices […]

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

I Like Mine in Brine!

I’ve gone on and on about the different ways to smoke meat. Finally, I am going to have to pick one and write about it.
So here we go.
First of all, I am most familiar with using a brine to cure and flavor the meat. In a bit of research about what is out […]

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

What Causes Meat to Spoil?

What could be worse than finding a cut of meat you had big plans for is partially or totally spoiled?
You weren’t supposed to bring a list, it was a rhetorical question.
Whether it makes your top list of worst disappointments or not, it’s certainly not what we bargain for when we pick up a cut from […]

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Chicken of Deceptive Elegance

Hi, everyone. I’m new here, but I promise not to poison you. I love to cook (or so my 800 cookbooks tell me — at least, they did before I sold about 200 of them off. 800 is ridiculous. 600, somehow, is sane. Never mind.) but I don’t always have the sort of time required […]

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007