Author: Chris Perrin

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Valentine’s Day Roundup

Happy Valentine’s Day! Okay, that’s a bit premature, but there aren’t many shopping days left until you need to be armed with the perfect gift and an even perfect-er meal. If you need some amazing meal ideas, let me say that nothing does better than… (Click the link to find out!)

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A Tale of Two Em Chamas

The Only Thing Better Than One Em Chamas …is two Em Chamas. (Quick edit: I just found out Em Chamas is doing a special expanded Valentine’s Day with shrimp, lamb, scallops, and free dessert.  Just sayin’.) Okay, I know I’m not exactly breaking any huge news, but there are two Em Chamas in what the […]

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How to Boil Pasta

How to Boil Pasta By popular request, here is my treatise, my manifesto as it were, on the art of pasta boiling.  By the way, this post assumes dried pasta. Boiling (and making) fresh pasta is a wholly separate critter.

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How to Make Brown Butter

How to Make Brown Butter Okay, so in yesterday’s post How to Melt Butter, I talked about the fact that for the next several weeks, I am going to concentrate on going over culinary fundamentals.  I really want to cover the basics of cooking, and in doing so, equip all the home cooks out there with […]

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How to Melt Butter

Melting Butter Okay, so it’s been a while since I’ve blogged steadily.  I apologize.  I got wrapped up in a new project that should be really cool and really perfect for local food producers, but it also has eaten into my blogging time.  (It’s sort of pre-alpha right now.) Fortunately, I’ve had a lot of […]

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Farm to Market Pannetone

Farm To Market Bread Company Panettone Chef Jasper Mirabile is pretty good at giving challenges. Fortunately, I’ve managed to avoid the worst of his culinary conundrums for some time (which is no doubt his way of admitting that Velvetta fudge was just as awful as it sounds.)  Still, if I had any shock when Chef […]