Apartment Therapy Tagged: technique

Playing with Your Food: How To Make Carrot Flowers!

Carrot coins? Yawn. Matchsticks? Too much work! Next time you're making a stew or miso soup or gingered carrots, take a few minutes and make carrot flowers. It's simple, not too much extra work...

Technique: Muddling

Many warm weather cocktails use fresh ingredients such as herbs and fruit, and often, muddling is required. To muddle means to press the ingredients against the side of the glass with a muddler....

Cooking By Feel: French Ingredients and Flavors

French cuisine is perhaps the one kind of cooking where almost all of us feel uncomfortable off-roading it without a recipe. Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and other chefs of the last fifty years have pu...

Tip: Getting A Good Caramelized Top On Crème Brûlée

Recently, a friend of ours asked us, What do you think is one of the sexiest foods? Our response: Crème brûlée. We get so much pleasure in cracking that caramelized sugar top to ...

The Celluloid Pantry: Garlic Prep and Goodfellas (1990)

[Beginning this week, we'll be rerunning some favorites from The Celluloid Pantry while Nora enjoys a writer's residency at The Ragdale Foundation. We'll be back with all-new posts October 9.] Every ...

Survey: How Do You Prep Your Garlic?

After all the lively back-alley trash-talkin' yesterday on The Celluloid Pantry about gangsters and the fine art of garlic-chopping, we thought it was time for a survey: ...