Articles by Chef Todd Mohr
Spritz Cookies – It's All In The Bagging! -
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Chef Todd Mohr
Spritz cookies are my favorite cookie at the holidays. I don't make them any other time of the year, just as I don't watch "A Christmas Carol" or "The Grinch" in July. These cookies bring back strong childhood memories for me, mostly of my Mom's...
The Number 1 Method for Great Cookies From Scratch -
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Chef Todd Mohr
The idea of great cookies from scratch is what brings people back to their kitchens this time of year. Even people that don't bake for the other eleven months of the year, somehow find themselves back in the kitchen for holiday cookie time. Whether...
This Strawberry Pie Recipe Is a Great Method for Any Other Fresh Fruit Pie -
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Chef Todd Mohr
A strawberry pie recipe is really no different than a blueberry pie recipe, or a rhubarb pie recipe. Beside the obvious difference in ingredients, the methods behind making a fresh fruit pie are exactly the same. Unlike canned fruit, fresh fruit does not come...
Flaky Pie Crust or Mealy Pie Crust? Avoid Soggy Bottom Pies With The Right Choice -
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Chef Todd Mohr
Choosing a flaky pie crust or a mealy pie crust for you pie can mean the difference between pie pride and pie purgatory. It's not that you need different recipes for the two types of pie crust, you just need to employ two different methods....
A Chef's Potluck Party Tips to Make Them Jealous -
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Chef Todd Mohr
A potluck party can be a food nightmare. As a professional Chef and caterer, few things offend my culinary senses more than the holiday potluck party. With hot items going cold, badly portioned and picked-through platters, nacho dip next to brownies, and unidentifiable entrees all...
These Uses for Leftover Turkey Will Un-Clog Your Refrigerator -
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Chef Todd Mohr
Do you start thinking about uses for leftover turkey as soon as the meal begins or does all that food just get loaded into your refrigerator? Since thanksgiving cooking planning starts at your desk and not your stove, you may not have any food...
The Turkey Gravy Thickener that Grandma Ignored -
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Chef Todd Mohr
My Grandmother used cornstarch to make turkey gravy. My Mother inherited this procedure of dissolving cornstarch in water to thicken the drippings. Well, this generational laziness stops here! If your family is like mine, your elders will be sliding the roasting pan from the...
Cook Green Beans in Advance and Keep Their Vitamins Intact -
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Chef Todd Mohr
When you cook green beans this holiday season, will you open a can of condensed soup and let the beans bake for hours? Most people do. Baking vegetables over a long period of time reduces their nutrient value. Plus, if you are trying to...
Christmas Dinner Ideas Start with Appetizers Too Fancy For You -
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Chef Todd Mohr
Christmas dinner ideas come easy. Turkey, Ham, or Beef with potatoes and vegetables. However, how you START your meal can be a more perplexing problem. There are infinite choices of holiday appetizers to choose from. How do you find the right recipe? You don't...
apple cranberry sauce -
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Chef Todd Mohr
Apple Cranberry Sauce is something unique that you can add to your holiday table this year and avoid the gelatinous creature that slides from a can every holiday meal. I'm not crazy about cranberry sauce in the first place. Cranberries are very tart and...
Brining Turkey is Better Than Burning Down Your House -
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Chef Todd Mohr
Brining turkey is my favorite way to prepare my holiday turkey. People's biggest fear is that their turkey will be dry after cooking it. This is a reasonable fear, because "roasting" is a dry-heat convective cooking process. When roasted, your turkey is cooked indirectly through...
The Most Important Thanksgiving Cooking Tip of All -
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Chef Todd Mohr
Of the many Thanksgiving cooking tips I can give you, this is perhaps the most important. It can be the difference between a triumphant meal and an undercooked case of food borne illness. I get many questions on email about correct roasting temperatures. "What...
Thanksgiving Cooking Planning: Start at Your Desk, NOT Your Stove -
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Chef Todd Mohr
Are you anticipating holiday cooking stress already? Is Thanksgiving cooking planning getting you down? I fully understand, because even as a professional chef who has prepared food for thousands, I still feel the anxiety of cooking for family in my own home. Planning, shopping, preparing,...
Why this Vegetable Lasagna Recipe Changes Everything -
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Chef Todd Mohr
A Vegetable Lasagna recipe is easy to find on the internet. Everyone will have you cooking dry sheets of pasta, letting them cool correctly, then wrestling with the limp, soggy, wet sheets to create a layered Italian dish. I've taken a long hard look...
Apple Squash Soup Even YOU Can Make Right Now! -
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Chef Todd Mohr
An Apple Squash Soup is very easy to create, even without a recipe, if you know a few basic cooking methods. It can be difficult to identify some of those colorful squash at the market. If you don't know what type of squash you've bought,...
Corn On The Cob: How to Cook It Right -
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Chef Todd Mohr
Cook corn on the cob and you've got a uniquely summer time treat. Fresh corn from the field brushed with melted butter is a strong child-food memory for me, and can be one for your children as well. If you're lucky enough to get some...
Summer Demands an Easy Baked Stuffed Clam Recipe -
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Chef Todd Mohr
When I go clam digging and I am as successful as I was on this particular trip, my favorite clam recipe to cook is baked stuffed clams. Today, I'm going to share how I create this fantastic dish! Knife Skills First and foremost, all of...
You Need to Dig Deep for a Fresh Clam Recipe -
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Chef Todd Mohr
One of my favorite clam recipes is baked stuffed clams. But, to get the freshest clams, you have to go clam digging first, and then you need to open the 300 clams that you dug up. Heading out in a small boat to find a...
Peel Tomatoes in 2 Easy Steps -
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Chef Todd Mohr
In my efforts to help you understand how to cook healthy foods for yourself and your family, the most important thing to remember is that the most nutritious food comes from fresh produce. So go ahead, enjoy the summer harvest and the flavor of just-picked...
Spoiled Food Is Stinking Up Your Ability To Cook On a Budget -
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Chef Todd Mohr
Food is a constant expense. Every day, three times a day, whether eating out or cooking at home, you have to spend money on food. If you have to cook on a budget, you're probably very careful about what you bring home from the grocery...
