Cal and Christa DeMercurioToday was the day. In my progression of sautée practice, I moved on from a slice of bread to a generous handful of navy beans. The trick seems to be, not to feel it in the wrist …
Have Pan Will Flip
Seriously? Seriously. I’m watching TV and working on flipping a piece of bread in a little sautée pan. No beans yet. There’s a rhythm to be found, almost like a locomotive, chugga chugga, chugga chugga. Until next …
Jumping Beans
Sautée: a French term meaning tossed (from sauter to jump) or the Latin term saltāre meaning to dance (from salīre to spring). Sautée has always been intimidating to me. To take a heavy hot pan and to move …
Mushroom Duxelles
Mushroom Duxelles sounds very fancy and complicated; however it is quite the opposite. As Chef Husband turned up the heat on the stove, he would pass me the baton (knife) to rough chop the mushrooms. …
