by David Salerno | Jul 5, 2023 | Blog, Cooking Tips and Tricks
Some of you may know that I grew up in New Jersey with a family of Italian American heritage. With this background something that you learn, or at least have an understanding of, is marinara sauce. I never had someone to pass a recipe down to me, but I can tell you...
by David Salerno | Jul 3, 2023 | Blog, Cooking Tips and Tricks
If you’ve been reading these long enough you know my philosophy with knives; Get a good chef’s knife, get a paring knife, get a bread knife. This will cover 95% of what you’ll need to do in a kitchen. Everything you add after will simply do the jobs...
by hungerintervention | Jun 23, 2023 | Blog, Senior Community Meals, Volunteers
In this month’s volunteer spotlight we’re meeting Sydne. Sydne joined our volunteer team last year after retiring from her career in nursing. Today she helps with meal prep for the Senior Community Meal every Wednesday morning, and serving at the East African Senior...
by David Salerno | May 2, 2023 | Blog, Cooking Tips and Tricks
How and why would you use these to thicken a soup, sauce, or stew? I still have nightmares thinking about calling 30 seconds out from a meal being delivered to the pass and knowing my sauce would never thicken to the right consistency in time. A good...
by David Salerno | Apr 4, 2023 | Blog, Cooking Tips and Tricks, Culinary Anthropology
Al pastor tacos come directly from Lebanese immigrating to Puebla, Mexico. Without going down a huge historical rabbit hole, these immigrants left due to the fall and disintegration of the Ottoman empire. If you’ve ever seen the way the meat is cooked for the...
