Rachael Ray Just Gave Two Good Tips in One Episode That I Don’t Want to Forget
2 parts chicken stock to 1 part beef stock approximates veal stock.
Rubbing cutting boards with coarse salt while washing them gets flavors and smells out. Oddly enough, I was reading a Julia Child cookbook this morning in which she recommends washing your hands like this to get garlic and onion scents off them.


May 5th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
[...] As I started to make it, I wondered why beet cake has fallen to the wayside, while carrot and zucchini have manage to thrive. I eat beets somewhat regularly, usually roasted and chopped, but once I started grating my beet, my reddening hands gave me one answer. No ordinary scrubbing would clean them. For better or for worse, I remembered this tip that I apparently didn’t forget, and applied it to my red hands — it took several rounds of salt and scrubbing to make them clean again. [...]