Apartment Therapy Tagged: cooking basics

Cooking Basics: Very Easy Pickling

We love pickles, and we especially love the variety of flavors and vegetables being used to make them these days. But we've tended to shy away from making them at home, thinking that pickling requires...

Basic Techniques: How to Trim the Fat Off Meat

Like many of you, we've been recently buying more whole cuts of meat to use in braises and to stretch our food dollar a little further. These often come with a fair amount of fat and gristle still att...

Technique: How to Sweat Vegetables

Whenever we come across this instruction in a recipe, we can't help imagining little cartoon onions and carrots eying a soup pot with beads of sweat running down their faces. Fortunately, the reality ...

Cooking Basics: Knowing When To Deglaze a Pan

Before we really got into cooking, deglazing was definitely not a part of our vocabulary. We also assumed that the brown gunk adhered to the bottom of the pan indicated another burned dinner - not the...

Pie vs. Tart: What's the Difference?

Our Pie Bakeoff is in full swing (have you entered your best pie yet?) For the next few weeks we are running posts each day with recipes, tips and inspiration, and soon we will begin posting entries f...

Food Science: The Anatomy of a Pie Crust

While you're busy dreaming up delicious pies to serve at your holiday dinners - or submit to our Best Pie Bake Off! - we thought we'd give you a tour of the part of the pie that sometimes gives us tro...