Tag: cooking
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Cooking Up Faith: The Model from the Mold
When Joe and I were engaged, we were gifted a cooking class at a pretty fancy cooking school. We attended the class with about six other couples. Upon arrival we were shown a finished product of what we would be preparing that evening. The one thing that stood out the most was a potato with…
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Cooking Up Faith Series: Let That Simmer
If you’ve ever made soup, sauce or chili from scratch, often a recipe will say, bring to a boil and immediately reduce to a simmer. This is to get the dish heated up to boiling to ensure the remainder of the cooking happens just below boiling—a simmer. If you aren’t familiar with simmering, it’s usually…
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Cooking Up Faith: Balance the Bitterness of Onions or Life
Onions are an ingredient I cook with often. Whether sloppy joe’s, soups, sauces, fajitas, kabobs, salads or dressings, they are kept in supply in our house: sweet, red, yellow, shallots, scallions. I use them all. A little known fact about onions is that their smell, bitter taste and propensity to make you cry comes from…