While it is not healthy to spend our whole lives waiting for things to happen, and in doing so miss everything that is going on, a certain amount of anticipation is natural, and healthy. Towards that end, here are thirteen things I am currently looking forward to or awaiting:
Utensils: Knives and a pot from Tony [...]
Carrying on from last week’s Thirteen, here are thirteen ingredients in my kitchen cabinets:
Tofu: Firm Silken kind
Instant Miso Soup: for the tofu to go in
Dried beans: green lentils, yellow lentils, chickpeas, etc…
Rice: long-grain, brown, wild and basmati
Coconut Milk: for making Thai rice
Cous cous: because you can’t always eat rice
Tea: Earl Gray, Djarleeing, Assam, White and [...]
Setting Up Your Kitchen
This week we are going to tackle one of the hardest, and most rewarding, aspects of changing your relationship to your food - changing your relationship to your kitchen. Let’s face it; if you are afraid to cook for yourself, you don’t have a very healthy relationship with food, do you? So, [...]
It is impractical to create a comprehensive list of every conceivable piece of kitchen equipment one might want, since every cooks’ needs are different. However, there are some basic pieces of equipment that are in pretty much every cooks’ kitchen. You should always buy the best quality you can afford, as many of these items [...]
Everyone has a kitchen full of gadgets, doo-dads and gee-gaws. As we have been getting ready for our yard sale I have gone through my kitchen tools with a very critical eye. Here are my essentials, the ones that I would take over any others:
WÜSTHOF Classic 8″ chef’s knife: One good knife that you know [...]
Everyone has those weird little victories that we never really talk about, but are what make up a good mood. Those silent victories that make us feel in control and more like ourselves and happy to be alive. Here are thirteen of mine:
Sharpening my kitchen knives
Eating the last of left-overs
Turning the ringer on my cell-phone [...]
It has been many years (since I was a child) since my family has had a garden, but this Spring (very soon now in South Carolina), my wife and I will be reviving the tradition and providing more of our own food by the product of our own hands. This has gotten me thinking of [...]
These are the ramblings of Jon Tillman.
