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Setting The Scene For Braise Cooking School

Setting The Scene For Braise Cooking School

Since I’m not in class this week, let me give you a little breakdown of what the Braise Culinary School classroom is like, so you can really play along at home. First off, the textbook. Look at this tome! It is huge; full of every possible tip, trick and recipe […]

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One Bad Yogi Is One Great Teacher

I try and I try to do yoga at home by myself. There is plenty of space and I know all the sequences, right? True, but that does not take into effect the piles of laundry that attract my Shiny Object radar, nor the fact that I always slack when […]

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What To Do With Extra Zucchini

How did your zucchini plants do this summer? I had a plant take over the whole garden. Oops. I do that every year. At least this year our CSA hasn’t given us a ton, too. If life hands you zucchinis (zucchin-I?) don’t make zucchiniade. Instead just wash your pile, shred […]

Braise Cooking School Week 1 – Knife Skills

Braise Cooking School Week 1 – Knife Skills

Wow. I consider myself to be an above average home cook. A professional I am not, but I’ve been known to make a tasty gourmet meal or two in my day. I even took two college courses in cooking for restaurants! Alas, four minutes into my first class at Braise Cooking School and […]

Changing Your Flight Plan

Changing Your Flight Plan

Today’s the day. The sentimental day where we turn to people we’ve met since this day last year to relay where we were on this day in 2001. (For my new readers, I was still in SC, out on a walk with a CD walkman on with nary a family […]