Category Archives: Cooking

Here you’ll find everything about cooking that isn’t actually a recipe. Tips, techniques, gripes, whatever.

Food for Thought: An Introduction to Korean Cooking in Recipes

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

  Serious Eats recently published a long and unusually comprehensive article by Sonja Swanson, a Korean food blogger and former editor of Time Out Seoul. An Introduction to Korean Cooking in Recipes is a guide to getting to know the … Continue reading →

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My Quarantine with Trader Joe

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

There were fewer dining-out options than usual during my trip to San Francisco last week, causing me to stock up for quarantine with Trader Joe. Tried a number of new products with some hits and a few surprising disappointments. Let’s … Continue reading →

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Chilling and Grilling for Father’s Day

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

We did our grilling for Father’s Day a few days early because of some planned travel. The results were good, so we’re passing them along. The numbers refer to the keys on the photo above. 1.The basic plan: we took … Continue reading →

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Cure COVID with cabbage?

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

The other day I needed something healthy and crunchy to go with the last of my Instant Pot Thai Roast Pork. So I pulled a half head of cabbage out of the refrigerator, shredded it on the coarsest side of … Continue reading →

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My first porchetta

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

A whole pork belly had been languishing in our downstairs freezer for way too long. With no big gatherings on the horizon, it was time to make my first porchetta. And it proved surprisingly easy and successful. Porchetta is a … Continue reading →

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Let’s have a pupusa party!

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

Looking for something fun to do with your COVID co-confinees? Have a pupusa party! Making a serviceable pupusa turns out to be quite a challenge. But, though your early attempts will be comically inept, you’ll get better with practice and … Continue reading →

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Comfort Classics: Texas potato salad

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

When you run across a bag of potatoes you bought in the early days of the pandemic, and they’re starting to sprout roots, it’s time to make Texas Potato Salad. This is a true comfort classic that goes with any … Continue reading →

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Baking sourdough bread during the pandemic

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

Lots of new folks are finding their way to Burnt My Fingers these days, and many head straight for our post on how to make sourdough bread in your Instant Pot. But it’s a bit of an (intentional) misdirection because … Continue reading →

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Comfort Classics: Better-than-Mounds-Bars

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

Our Cashew Nut Clusters really are better than Mounds Bars! You get the same holy trinity of dark chocolate/coconut/nuts but without the corn syrup and preservatives, and we up the game by using high quality dark chocolate, cashews instead of … Continue reading →

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Let’s make Chinese takeout at home!

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

In upstate New York, almost all Chinese takeout places are currently closed. A local paper surveyed them* and found that most were unable to get standard ingredients, like egg roll wrappers, that are shipped from the NYC area. Hopefully that … Continue reading →

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