Check the Pantry
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Produced at the KBBI studios in Homer, Alaska, Check the Pantry looks at food and cooking through the building blocks - ingredients. Host Jeff Lockwood examines one ingredient each show in all its facets, from history to cultural importance to how it's produced to, most importantly, how to cook it. For episodes before the most recent twenty, visit https://www.kbbi.org/programs/check-pantry

Ghee

It's time to brown some butter - Jeff Lockwood goes into the kitchen to get his Maillard reaction on, and then make a couple of Indian dishes using th...
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Sweet Potatoes

It's time for a trip to the culinary mind of an eight-year-old, Webster Martin, who joins host Jeff Lockwood (and Webster's mom, Lisa Asselin, who han...
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Brussels Sprouts

One of the stars of the winter table, Brussels sprouts take the spotlight in a three-course dinner that features them in two different preparations. J...
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Green Bell Peppers

Green bell peppers make a nice springboard to cooking up the New Orleans brunch classic grillades and grits. Host Jeff Lockwood expounds at length on ...
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Coffee

For many of us, coffee is utilitarian, the tool that knocks us awake in the morning. For Justice Sky, of Ano Kissaten Coffee Roasters , it's much more...
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Turkey

With a worldwide pandemic raging, getting together for a big meal is a terrible idea. Finding ways to shrink Thanksgiving classics down? Fantastic ide...
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Hens

There comes a time in a hen's life where she's not laying too much, and you have to make some decisions. One of the options, the one Jeff Lockwood cho...
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Milk

Milk is much more than a drink - it's an important ingredient, contributing fat, texture, and flavor to many different foods - meatballs and quiche am...
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Carrots

Harvest means carrots, and carrots mean cake! Jeff Lockwood spends the hour making carrot cake (using a slight adaptation of this recipe ). Produced b...
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Yeast

Jeff Lockwood visits Alaskan brewing legend Lasse Holmes for a tour through the beer-making process, which, at every step, keeps coming back to yeast....
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