There are some cooking techniques I kick myself for having learned much later in life than I should have. Properly blooming spices is one of those techniques. For the longest time I just ...
Food Media we like: Cooks Country
Cooks Country and its sister show and publication America’s Test Kitchen from PBS are frequent entrants to our food media diet. Fronted for years by Chris Kimball and his bow-tie this TV show and ...
How to Make Better Coffee – Part 2, The Gear.
We already took a look at how to make better coffee without spending any money a few weeks ago. Now comes part 2 in our series on how to make better coffee. This time ...
Fresh Ground Pepper – Improve Every Dish Every Night
I am a bit of a self-admitted fresh ground pepper fiend. I love the stuff and when you start tasting it in its varied forms you learn a lot about it. One of the ...
How to make better coffee
How to make better coffee Coffee is life in the @TheRealCFOs kitchen, when you have kids, and you work full time you don’t just drink a cup of coffee, some days you hang on ...
FoodTV we like – The Mind Of A Chef
Originally aired on PBS and widely available to stream on Netflix – The Mind of a Chef, profiles one well known Chef per season. The show follows them as the experiment with and discuss ...
What is the Best Way to Grill Pork Tenderloin?
You will get a lot of different opinions on the subject of the best way to grill pork tenderloin – not all of them will be wrong. For us though the best way is ...
7 steps to cook a better steak
On the heels of last week’s news about the continued expected decline in beef prices it seemed timely to share a few Chief Food Officer’s tips on how to cook a better steak. Given ...
The Basic Necessity of Salt & Salting
We are always looking for ways to improve the food we serve to our friends and family, that is part of the lesson of this site by tracking those things we get better. Today we ...