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Twitter Tuesday: #kitchenpetpeeves 31 January 2012 9:20 am

Posted by Tracy in : advice,cooking,food snobbery,food storage,kitchen gear,kitchen mishaps,Twitter Tuesday , add a comment

So I just found out about the Twitter hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves and as @michaelnatkin (Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious.com) says:

If you are considering restaurant work, read this hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves – a hell of a lot of education in every 140 chars

I tell you, he only speaks the truth. After only a bit of scrolling, I found pretty much everything I might have tweeted myself (and they’re not all about terrible restaurant customers, either!) Here are some of my favorites (bonus: writing this post has distracted me from reading the whole thread and stopped me from retweeting all but a few of these):

Joshua Galliano @cookingkid
almost empty containers not consolidated into smaller ones RT @ad_it_up #kitchenpetpeeves empty containers in the walkin

This one drives me nuts even at home, even when I’m the one guilty of not bothering to free up fridge space! (more…)

What’s in my freezer? 15 May 2008 9:04 am

Posted by Tracy in : events,food storage,not even vegetarian,pictures , add a comment

So Chez Us asked a good question a little more than a week ago, and a day or two after that I finally got around to taking a picture of the contents of my freezer, and a day or two after that I got distracted by this little trip to the East Coast. (New York City, by the way, is still made of awesome.) While I was easily able to name three things without looking for the Vegan MoFo survey a while back, listing the full contents of my freezer is difficult even when I’m staring it cold in the face. Now, for my amusement (and hopefully yours as well) I’m going to attempt to respond to that very good question from all the way across the country, just by looking at those week-or-so-old pictures. Here goes!

The freezer, full as always.

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Ask TracyFood: Freezing cilantro? 9 January 2008 12:25 pm

Posted by Tracy in : advice,convenience,cooking,food storage,friends,geekery,seasonality , 1 comment so far

Hey Tracy,

I bought a bunch of cilantro and used like 1/3 of it and I don’t want the rest to go bad but there’s really not a lot I’m planning for it right now. Can I freeze it, and how would I do that best?

Thanks,
Penny (more…)

Ask TracyFood: storing basil for the winter 26 September 2007 11:59 am

Posted by Tracy in : advice,books,breakfast,food storage,garden,seasonality , 4 comments

Marcy (who remains ever so much better than Barbie) writes, very flatteringly,

Dear Tracy, the queen of food,

Winter came quickly this year. My basil plant was flourishing all summer, and now it’s starting to die (silly temperate climate. In CA, it lived all year long). Sure, I could dry the leaves. But could I freeze them
and continue to use them as fresh basil in recipes?

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