Welcome to the kitchen!
Recipes We Cook In Our House
Recipe Websites
Other good recipe sites:
Best Books on Cooking
- Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, Michael Ruhlman (2009)
Misc Recipe Notes
Conversions
Convert an ingredient’s volume to weight at King Arthur’s website
| Dry Measurements | ||
|---|---|---|
| 16 tablespoons | 1 cup | 250 ml |
| 12 tablespoons | ¾ cup | 175 ml |
| 8 tablespoons | ½ cup | 125 ml |
| 5+2⁄3 tablespoons | 1⁄3 cup | 75 ml |
| 4 tablespoons | ¼ cup | 50 ml |
| 2 tablespoons | 6 teaspoons | 30 ml |
| 1 tablespoons | 3 teaspoons | 15 ml |
| Wet Measurements | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 gallon | 4 quarts | 8 pints | 16 cups | 128 oz |
| ¼ gallon | 1 quarts | 2 pints | 4 cups | 32 oz |
| 1⁄8 gallon | ½ quarts | 1 pints | 2 cups | 16 oz |
| 1⁄16 gallon | ¼ quarts | ½ pints | 1 cups | 8 oz |
Fry Oil
The temperature needs to be between 350° and 375°F
Alcohol Cooking
Alcohol takes 15 minutes approx. to boil out of a dish.
Medium-Soft Boiled Eggs
- Use cold-from-the-fridge large eggs, which take exactly 7½ minutes minutes to cook. Maintain a gentle boil.
- Dunk in very cold water to instantly cool. Crack top and blow inside. Roll eggs to crack and peel.
Noodles Serving Size
- 70g per adult
- 35g per child
Food Preservation
- Store green vegetables inside of wrapped tin foil (Celery, Lettuce). They will last much longer in the fridge this way.
How To Season Cast Iron
- Preheat oven to 450°F
- Put 1/4 teaspoon of oil (canola, sunflower, avagado, vegetable) in pan and rub with a clean paper towel all around
- Rub with a second clean paper towel until there are no streaks, runs or spots
- Bake pan for 1 hr
Degrees of chopping
How to properly cut (Wikipedia)
