Q: I don't have a picture, but I am OBSESSED with Giada De Laurentiis' pepper mill on her show. It' s a simple wood cylinder. It looks like a modern Dansk style and would fit perfectly on this wall (p...
At the farmer's market in San Rafael a few weeks ago, I was delighted to make an unique discovery. These might look like red bell peppers at first glance, but look closely at the bottoms; they're poi...
Here's a pungent ingredient we recently picked up from a Thai market. Have you ever cooked with it? ...
Yes, yes, yes. We know this jalapeño pepper corer is a uni-tasker. But some uni-taskers are that way for a reason: there's no other way to get the job done. So we want to know, is this particular uni...
We pulled in the last batch of chili peppers from our garden this week and noticed several peppers had funny whitish brown marks on their sides like in the picture above. What's going on? Find out aft...
Pepper makes its way into just about every dish that passes through the kitchen so make sure you're using good quality pepper. After all, the good stuff doesn't cost more than lesser pepper. You don'...
While we're talking about leaving things out on the counter, here's another ingredient that sits on ours: Kosher salt and pepper in little dishes next to the stovetop. This is one of the first things ...
Between a bumper crop of hot peppers from our garden and the hoards of sweet peppers in our CSA, we've got peppers coming out our ears! This weekend, we have plans to roast the whole lot and store som...
"Roasting" in this case is a bit of a misnomer. We might better call this technique "charring"! In either case, roasted peppers are a delicious addition to salads, frittatas, and a whole lot more. He...
Are you a fan of hot and spicy foods?! With our own chile peppers almost ready to be picked, we started getting curious about what makes peppers spicy and why some peppers are "hotter" than others. R...
'Tis the season for fresh peppers of all kinds. From hot to sweet, purple to green to orange, peppers are here....
Hi! At our recent Austin, Texas, farmer's market, I scored an amazing deal on a basket of jalapeños. I planned to share them with friends but still have a bunch left over, and I was wondering if any...
Remember that perfect peanut butter jar? There are new photos of it in action - we're even more convinced now that it's a good idea. That and more below... ...
It might seem strange to start a salad recipe by talking about a sausage. But when a friend gave us some beautiful homemade links, we immediately thought of the classic Tuscan sausage and cannellini b...
A question of pepper mills, from reader Robyn: I am perplexed by the assortment of different pepper mills out there. I am a fairly serious cook and my peppermill gets a workout (I have a terribly j...
Our bent for the old-fashioned is completely satisfied by this Vermont Marble Crank Peppermill. It's made of copper finished stainless steel, 8 inches tall, and quite heavy, we imagine. It's practica...
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