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Best Way to Freeze Tomatoes for Cooking

August 25, 2015August 3, 2026Leave a comment

Now that autumn is just around the corner, I wanted to share a great tip about storing tomatoes. One year I planted 3 San Marzano tomato plants and I had so many tomatoes, it was impossible to cook them all. I was still getting baskets of tomatoes in late September, so I had to find a solution.

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Essential Guide to Storing Cooking Oils Correctly

June 17, 2014August 14, 2026Leave a comment

I have this question all of the time. Why do you put your vegetable oil in the refrigerator? When people see that I have my cooking oils in the refrigerator they wonder why. Well, I’m going to tell you my theory.

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Essential Kitchen Tools for Home Chefs

December 17, 2010July 22, 2026Leave a comment

When I was starting out, a good friend who was a chef, took me to a store in Boston called Silo and made my buy a set of pots and sauce pans. At the time, they seemed very expensive to this starting student, but he was 100% right. I’m literally still am using some of those pans and that was 40 years ago!

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