{"id":6079,"date":"2010-08-15T09:03:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2014-08-07T11:12:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:12:47","slug":"cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m certainly no chef, but I can follow a recipe.<\/strong> I don’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen, but I’ve had to pinch hit now and again. Every once in a while I like to venture beyond the safer fare (toast) and try something more challenging (homemade soft pretzels). I credit the number of flops I’ve had to my lack of experience but I have also found that preparing dishes isn’t just combining ingredients. Order, technique and timing have their place as well. It is chemistry after all. Thanks to Food Network’s know-it-all Alton Brown I can feel comfortable being one of the culinary illiterates out there and benefit by his superior knowledge and entertaining form of teaching. I may have learned a few new tricks but I doubt I’ll be given free-reign in the kitchen anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m certainly no chef, but I can follow a recipe. I don’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen, but I’ve had to pinch hit now and again. Every once in a while I like to venture beyond the safer fare (toast) and try something more challenging (homemade soft pretzels). I credit the number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3XRuE-cooking","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7545,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions\/7545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}