Blogs Posts on "Cupboard"

Tonka beans, a Pantry Special (Recipe: spice snap cookies) by The Perfect Pantry on Nov 17, 2009Pantry Specials are great ingredients that find their way into my pantry from time to time, but not all the time. In this occasional series of short posts, you'll find information and recipes for foods that might not be on your local supermarket's sh...

Panko (Recipe: panko and mustard crusted fish) by The Perfect Pantry on Nov 10, 2009Before our first visit to Japan, in 1986, Ted and I tried to memorize one hundred words we thought we'd need -- please and thank you, taxi, toilet, bank, subway, where, how much. Shrimp (ebi) and train station (eki), both on our list of necessary wor...

Powdered buttermilk (Recipe: pear spice cupcakes) by The Perfect Pantry on Nov 1, 2009When you drive toward my town from pretty much anywhere, you pass a mall or two. Big box stores, little box stores, grocery stores and discount stores. Drive-through doughnuts, drive-up banking. Hardware, software, sportswear. It's hard to believe th...

Chickpea flour (Recipe: salmon tikka) by The Perfect Pantry on Oct 27, 2009Ten things I know about chickpea flour (you'll be glad to know them, too): Chickpea flour is, simply, ground up chickpeas, or garbanzos. In recipes you'll see it called besan or gram flour, ceci flour or chana flour. A nutritional powerhouse, chickpe...

Cupboard happiness by Fun and VJs on Oct 26, 2009It's amazing what a difference three extra shelves can make to your life. Jason finished the inside of the linen/broom cupboard - I can now store my bedsheets/bedspreads, the boys can easily help themselves to a towel and the loo paper ha...

Linguine, spaghetti (Recipe: pasta with clams and vegetable sauce) by The Perfect Pantry on Oct 20, 2009A favorite post from the archives, updated with a new recipe, photos and links. Don't forget our free cookbook giveaway; leave a comment on any post before 11:00 p.m. on October 23 to be eligible to win. One noodle, two noodles, red noodles, blue noo...

Wine you'd be happy to drink, and a cookbook giveaway (Recipe: Grandma's beef brisket in the slow cooker) by The Perfect Pantry on Oct 18, 2009Question: Why should you cook with wine you'd be happy to drink? Answer: So you can drink the leftover wine! That's a good reason -- a great reason -- but it's not the only reason. When you apply heat to wine, the alcohol and water evaporate, leaving...

Small project - cupboard by Fun and VJs on Oct 16, 2009Jason recently started his DIY repair on the cupboard in the sunroom. I'm finally getting shelves and the major cracks in the VJs have been closed. Woo hoo! Finally, there will be a place to neatly store the linen and at least a small semblanc...

Carnaroli/arborio rice (Recipe: three mushroom risotto) by The Perfect Pantry on Oct 8, 2009My grandmother called her refrigerator "the frigidaire", and tissues "kleenex". Though both were brand names, she meant them in the lower-case sense. The brand became the generic. I can't remember when I first saw a package of "risotto" in the superm...

Brazil food: manioc, mandioca, cassava (Recipe: farofa with liver and onions) by The Perfect Pantry on Oct 6, 2009The third in an occasional series of posts over the next few weeks about Brazilian food and ingredients we discovered during our visit. On a day filled with magical experiences in the village of São Gonçalo do Rio das Pedras -- a second unsuccessfu...