Knife Skills Archives - Culinarily Yours

Knuckle Up

February 22, 2018 Comments are Disabled

An important guideline, when using a knife, is to keep your fingertips out of the way. For some reason, our natural instinct is to hold our food stationary for cutting, with our fingertips exposed and in harm’s way of a knife. When you “knuckle up” […]

Chicken, Knife Skills, Leftovers, Uncategorized

Small Dice

February 7, 2018 Comments are Disabled

My homework for tonight, as assigned by Chef Husband, was to take the smoked chicken breasts from last night and prep them for lettuce wraps, specifically cutting them into a “small dice”. Knife skills are one of the hallmarks in cooking, with “knife cuts” focusing […]

Knife Skills, Salads, Salads, Techniques, Techniques

Stack then Cut

January 20, 2018 Comments are Disabled

As I watched Chef Husband prepare our Chef Salads last night, I learned a new trick that he said was old school. A quick way to prep the meat and cheese for the salad is to layer the sliced meat, then sliced cheese, then sliced […]