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Tune in as I make pie for dinner this week on Sara’s Weeknight Meals.
Dinner is in the pan with my easy-to-make Dinner Pies – savory meat and vegetables enclosed in a hearty crust. This week, on Episode 416: Savory Dinner Pie, we’ve got BLT Pie, a twist on the popular sandwich, plus, use my speedy Pizza Dough recipe or store bought dough for…
Pie crust: When I am baking a single pie crust for filling, how can I keep it from shrinking?
Helen asked the Kitchen Shrink how she can keep a single pie crust from shrinking when it is baked without a filling. The first step in preventing pastry shrinkage is to make your pastry with very cold fat, very little water, and a gentle touch. You will find a lot…
Fried Chicken Salad
Makes 4 servings Hands-on time: 15 minutes Total preparation time: 40 minutes The chicken in this salad isn’t really fried. It’s soaked in buttermilk, breaded, and sauteed. It is, however, evocative of fried chicken. It’s juicy. It’s crispy. It’s delicious – and it’s much less caloric than actual fried chicken. I learned…
Blog: Meringue Issues
Normally I would have posted this in the kitchen shrink part of my website but I thought the topic of weepy meringues was such a burning issue that I should feature it as a blog entry. The answer comes from one of my good buddies and an important mentor, Jean…
Fellow Sofi Awards Judge, Jerry James Stone interviewed me and made the Paneer from “Home Cooking 101.” See his video here.
Fellow Sofi Awards Judge and Blogger, Jerry James Stone interviewed me and made the Paneer from “Home Cooking 101” (page 50). We discussed how easy it is to make homemade cheeses and all the delicious things you can make from them. You’ll find his video here.
New videos have just been added to my You Tube collection. You can find them here.
New videos from my six seasons of “Sara’s Weeknight Meals” have just been added to my You Tube collection. You can find them here.
Kitchen Shrink: How do you clean burned-on fats from baking pans and keep them clean?
The other day I got a question on my web site from Aletha who is having trouble cleaning burned-on fat from a baking pan. She wondered how to clean the pan and then asked how I keep my pans clean. I’ll answer the second question first. I have had some…
I joined SFA President Phil Kafarakis to announce Sofi Awards winners. Find them here.
On April 19th at noon EST, winners of the 2017 Sofi Awards were announced from One World Observatory at the top of One World Trade Center in New York! I was one of the Judges and joined Specialty Food Association President Phil Kafarakis to announce the Gold, Silver, Bronze, and New Product Winners!…
On the Road: Here’s my Heritage Radio Interview from the Charleston Wine and Food Festival.
While I was at the Charleston Wine and Food Festival from March 3rd to 5th to do a demo and judge the biscuit battle, I was interviewed by Caity Moseman Wadler of Heritage Radio. We talked about “Home Cooking 101,” what I learned from Julia Child, and the changing food world. You can listen here.