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White Bean & Greens Minestrone Recipe Ingredients 2-3 Tbsp          Olive Oil 1 medium        Onion, diced 1-2 stalks         Celery, diced 1 medium        Carrot, small diced 2 cups              Canned Cannellini Beans, drained 1 sm. bunch  Dinosaur Kale, rough chopped 2 cups              Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes 8 cups              Vegetable Stock or Chicken Stock ¾ cup              Arborio Rice…

Carrot Ginger Coconut Cream Soup Recipe This soup recipe is a great one for both the beginning soup maker and the experienced one alike. Since we are all spending more time in our home kitchens right now and often tasked with creating meals using ingredients from our pantries, this recipe is relatively simple and yields…

If you’ve ever taken a class at Kitchen on Fire, you will often hear us talk about the benefits of Bone Broth. While you may have only started to hear about Bone Broth in the last few years, it has been traditionally used in cultures around the world for hundreds of years. We now have…

Sweet Potato Fries Chef Olive is back in his home kitchen (staying safe!) to share this cooking demo of an easy and tasty sweet potato recipe. Sweet potatoes are often relatively easy to find (even during a global pandemic) and they last in your pantry for some time. Additionally, there are many ways to prepare…

Homemade Mayonnaise Homemade condiments not only taste delicious, they are often better for you, more cost-efficient and don’t require a trip to the grocery store—a true benefit during these unprecedented shelter-in-place times. Homemade mayonnaise is versatile and can be incorporated into many dishes to enhance flavor, texture and add that extra level of deliciousness to…

Food of the day: Eggs Eggs are always a wonderful food to have on hand in your kitchen. Not only are the possibilities of how to prepare them abundant, eggs are a relatively inexpensive source of protein and are packed with many other vital nutrients. Both the egg whites and yolks are full of vitamins,…

Serves 4 Ingredients                                                             4 cups Chicken Broth 1 cup White Wine 1 1/2 cups Sugar Snap Peas, trimmed 1 Tbsp Olive Oil 1 1/2 cups Green onions, sliced 1/2 cup Carrot, diced 1 cup Arborio Rice 1/4 cup Dry Sherry 1/4 tsp Salt & Pepper 1 Tbsp Fresh Oregano 1/2 cup Parmesan, freshly grated…

Companies across the globe are seeking new and effective ways to build up an efficient team. A simple internet search would surely turn up results on team dinners, sporting events, and trivia nights. However, an often overlooked team building activity is a cooking competition. From a team building cooking class to a full-on competition, there…

Bringing together a new team has challenges that can be hard to beat. Over time, companies have found various methods to break the ice amongst new coworkers. One method that deserves a lot of credit is a team building cooking class. It may not be a common approach to eliminating work tension among team members,…

Let’s admit it, bringing people together who don’t know each other as a wedding party can be awkward. We’ve all been to stiff wedding dinners and dances where the bridesmaids and groomsmen clearly don’t feel comfortable around each other. Sure, bachelor and bachelorette parties are great occasions to foster bonding on each side of the…

Have you ever gone to a family reunion where it was tough to get the conversation going? Your mother’s cousin’s step-father might have similar interests to your own, but getting to the point where communication flows and is easy can be a challenge for many. This is often especially true when the reunion is simply…

Ingredients For the Ganache 3 ½ oz Semisweet Chocolate ¼ cup Crème Fraîche (or sour cream) 2 tbsp Butter For The Cookies 1 ½ stick Butter (12 tbsp) ½ cup Sugar 2 each Large Eggs 1 ¼ cup AP Flour 1 tsp Salt Unsweetened Cocoa powder for dusting Directions Preheat oven to 325°F. One hour…