Do you have a great cooking tip? Why not host a “tip swap” party so you can share all the tips with your friends? Have each friend bring over a list of their favourite tips as well as the items needed to demonstrate them. You could spend the evening exchanging and demonstrating cooking tips and […]
One of the best cooking tips you can learn how to use is how to buy the best ingredients. In a lot of cultures, the right ingredients dictate what you will have for dinner. Especially when it comes to fruits, vegetables, meats, and seafood, high quality produce will make everything taste better.
Learning how to purchase […]
Homemade gifts are all the rage lately. Most people already have what they need, and gift certificates just aren’t personalized enough. A great gift idea is to create a recipe book or file box filled with recipes to give away as gifts. Do you have an apple pie or pasta salad recipe that people just […]
You see a commercial for the latest in cooking gadgets. Perhaps it’s a garlic peeler. Or maybe it is a special device to core an apple. And since you eat a lot of apples or cook with garlic all the time, you may be tempted.
But when it comes down to it, if you know what […]
What do you do with all of those great cooking tips you find? Most of us read them and forget about them. But, a lot of these tips can help you save time and money in the kitchen. Tips such as how to crush garlic, preventing lemon seeds from getting in your food, and what […]
Everyone has a few things that they are especially good at cooking. Even if you don’t know a lot about cooking, chances are there are still some things that you make really well such as salads and sandwiches. Most people just make their specialty without thinking about what truly goes into it. They don’t write […]
How many times have you asked the question, “What’s for Dinner?” Well, sometimes you have it all planned out. Other times you don’t. On the days when you don’t, that’s when people tend to make bad food choices and also waste unnecessary time in the kitchen or shopping blindly for ingredients you may or may […]
Do you avoid cooking anything complicated because you don’t understand how to follow recipes? Maybe the problem isn’t with you. Maybe the recipe simply is not written well. How many times have you tried to follow your aunt’s recipe for apple pie, only to get stuck at the crust?
The problem is, most people do not […]
A good set of knives is easily the most important thing that you could have in the kitchen. That and a large cutting board. A lot of people buy the least expensive knives they can find. If you want to learn how to cook and be as efficient as possible in the kitchen, skimping on […]
Top chefs seem to really have it together when they are preparing meals. When we see cook, they don’t scramble around the kitchen looking for last minute ingredients. Everything always seems to be where right in front of them
The French have a term for this – mise en place. This basically means “preparing the ingredients”. […]