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The Perfect Mashed Potato Mash, Potato Mash, Spud Mash.Which ever way you say it, it conjures up images of comfort food.Smooth creamy mash with; sausages; chops and gravy; peas and gravy; mum’s stew…. The list goes on.But as with most things in life, not all Potato Mash is created equally.If it is too runny, too floury, too lumpy or too tastel ...Entertaining and Cooking - Cooking Foods To Please Your Guests When entertaining there are many factors to consider. For instance, do you have enough room for entertaining? What is the desired attire? In addition to these you also need to adequately plan you meal. You will want to serve foods that are not only tasty but also go well with each other. Some characteristics to consider when planning the me ...Preparing Lobster Tails Lobster, once the food of poor farmers, is now considered a special treat for many. Although some people prefer the meaty claws, I think that lobster tails are the best tasting part of this delicious creature. A great meal of lobster tails might seem like a gourmet feast to your guests, but they are actually quite easy to prepare. Add a little ...Freezing and Thawing Meat Why would we care about thawing and freezing meat? Have you ever wondered why your frozen cuts do not turn out as juicy as you would expect? You would expect cooking and baking tips. Would it surprise you to know the answer could be your freezing and thawing practices.The right storage temperatures help extend shelf life and control th ...What is in Your BLT? The traditional BLT that is, a Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato sandwich is hard to beat. Think back, can you remember eating a warm BLT on white bread with a thin layer of mayonnaise, the real stuff not that fat free flavor free product we seem to use these days, with crisp bacon, cold ice berg lettuce and tomatoes so juicy your shirt catches the dr ...More Cooking Tips To Help You In The Kitchen There are plenty of simple things that you can do to help make cooking more manageable. Here are some tips that can really help you in the kitchen:- Are you trying to boil water in a hurry? Take the pot you plan on boiling the water in and place it on the stove, empty, on a high temperature setting. Begin running water in your sink and ...Creative Cooking in the Wintertime It is so fun to cook and bake in the winter when it's cold and the days are shorter. In northern California where I live, our temperature ranges from 35° to 105° (more or less). The seasons change abruptly; and sometimes, it's physically challenging to keep up with the climate changes.Every Fall, I renew my love for cooking. I love to fin ...Make These Dinner Rolls Yourself It takes more than one day to put together a Thanksgiving dinner for a crowd. There are many things you can do ahead of time to make the dinner a great success. I generally bake pies the day before. The night before is when I get everything ready for the dressing if I am making turkey. Frozen dishes I make a week in advance. Salads and condiment ...Eating Healthy with a Meat Grinder While it may be surprising, owning your own meat grinder can help you in your pursuit to live a healthier life. According to the USDA, the average American in 2000 consumed 300 more calories than the average American in 1985, a 12% increase, including a 24% increase of fat calories. The average daily fat intake was 81.4 grams and saturated fat i ...Cook Once, Eat For Days In today's fast paced world, cooking a family meal can be a challenge. Fast food seems to be the normal "quick fix" for supper. Although a good home cooked meal can never beat greasy hamburgers.Making menus can help with the planning process to ensure you'll always have something home cooked on the table, although time to make meals is st ...Never Burn The Bottoms of Your Cookies Again! If you are like me, you love to bake cookies, but hate the all-too-familiar problem of burning the bottoms. During the past couple of years, I have discovered some techniques that have ended my burnt cookie bottoms frustrations. I know these techniques will work for you as well. Happy baking!Oven TemperatureThe fir ...Having Fun Cooking What’s the secret to having fun cooking? Is there a magic bullet that solves all the problems in the kitchen? Maybe, Maybe not. However, two undisputable elements of fun cooking are speed and quality. In other words, making fast cooking great, makes cooking fun!Having fun cooking is the key to being able to cook dinner every day for y ...Beginners Guide to Creating Restaurant Dishes Many people shy away from attempting to cook restaurant style dishes at home, purely because they believe they don't have the skills or that the dishes are going to be overly complicated to get right. While some dishes from restaurants are undoubtedly quite difficult to master for some people at home, there are also a great deal of everyday sort ...Turkey Tips for Thanksgiving Cooking Thanksgiving Dinner is now easy task and I am sure the Harvest of 1641 was no exception for the Plymouth Pilgrim Colony. You think you have your work cut out for you, they had 90 Indians show up and the feast lasted three days. There are many things that you need to know about preparing a large feast even you are only have 9 Indians show ...Prime Rib Roast Different cuts of meat require different methods of cooking. Some should be cooked in liquid while others should not. How tender the finished product is depends on how it is cooked. A less tender cut of meat such as round steak is covered and cooked with liquid for longer than you would fry or grill a t-bone steak. I tend to get really perturbed ...Competition BBQ Brisket Selection and Preperation Beef brisket comes from the front shoulder of the animal; this is the muscle it uses to pick itself up off of the ground. It is arguably the toughest piece of meat to cook properly as there is a thin line between good and bad brisket.The tendency is to overcook, which may give you a great taste, but the texture would be “fall apart” tend ...Drying Herbs Many herb growers state that dried herbs that are grown in summer, have better flavour than those that are grown in winter, or those indoors. The best way to enjoy the benefits of herbs all year round is to pick and dry them when they are at their finest. Most herbs are very easy to dry, and will continue to retain their flavour and aroma. ...Cast Iron Dutch Oven Seasoning - How to Get Your Dutch Oven Ready For Use Seasoning your cast iron Dutch oven is required before its first use, so make sure that you have accounted for this after buying your Dutch oven.The steps are pretty simple, but take some time. You won't even have it completely seasoned after the first time, but will occur as you use your Dutch oven. Cast iron Dutch ovens ...Grow Your Own Produce For Fresh Cooking There’s nothing like cooking with fresh produce and what better way to have them readily available then to grow your own kitchen garden! A kitchen garden not only gives you good fresh produce but it also adds a bit of interest to your yard. It can be as simple as just a few herbs or you can go all out and grow vegetables too.Fruit, vege ...It's Time To Step Up To Barbeque Smokers For those looking for information on how to get started with barbeque smokers, you can start with your basic water smoker. If you have little experience they are ideal since they are fairly inexpensive, easy to handle, and still give terrific flavor to your meat. You will notice that the smoking will give your food that extra zest not available ...Basic 6 Spices The six spices that you should always have on hand. Not to insult salt and pepper, but they do have their limits.Whether you have a lifetime of experience in the kitchen, or just starting out, every cook would benefit by having these basic six spices in their spice rack. Used separately to enhance a light gravy or soup, or blended togethe ...How to cut a cake Have you ever wondered how to cut a cake? I have had a lot of practice. When I turned 16 and requested a Spider Man sheet cake I busily honed my cake cutting skills by making concentric rectangles and then served up the master piece. My family all refused to eat stating lack of presentation skills. Since that time my skills have, thankfully, ...What Vegetables Can I Freeze? Did you know that you can freeze witloof? Neither did I. In fact, I had no idea what witloof was. After doing a little research, I discovered that it is a type of herb, useful in salads. Even if you won’t be freezing your witloof, there are lots of other vegetables that you can freeze, which makes for easy cooking or snacking.**• Asparagu ...How to Make Sandwich Rolls with Your Bread Machine For that next picnic or family outing, consider making sandwich rolls with your bread machine. They are quick and easy and so much better than what you buy from the stores.Take any bread machine mix. Mix according to the package directions but set your machine on the “dough” setting so that the machine will mix your bread for you, let i ...Sweet Gourmet: Baking Chocolate Guide Several types of chocolate may be used when baking cookies, pies, cakes, bars, and other sweet treats. The amount of cocoa butter and sugar can affect the texture and taste of chocolate—from bitter to very sweet. Below is a quick guide to the most popular kinds of chocolate used in baked goods.** UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE – Unsweetened chocol ...Making New York Style Cheesecake Recipes Your Own So you've done your research on the Web or through cookbooks and finally, after much trial and error, you've settled on one recipe that not only produces the results you want, but provides the taste you've looked for. You've made it a dozen or so times, and are fairly confident you know the ins and outs and all the potential pitfalls.Don' ...The Stockpot and The Ore Boat I not only inherited my ways with food from the women in my past. My father was an accomplished chef. He was head chef on the salt water for a few years, but preferred to sail the great lakes. When his boat would come to port for supplies I was invited by the Captain to spend a day on the boat with my father. The time I spent on that boat were e ...Cooking With Eggs We use eggs in so many recipes. They are a staple in the kitchen.An egg can be cooked alone – boiled, poached, fried, scrambled. Or used as an ingredient in baking, batters and cakes. Alternatively use an egg to thicken sauces or to add air to lighten dishes.The egg is truly amazing. And without it – well our menus sure would be du ...How To Render Lard and Why I Do It The lard you can render from the fat of one pig is far superior than the stuff that has preservatives added. I am not a fan of chemical anything in food. I prefer my food to taste as pure as possible without artificial add-ins. Granted that food stuffs containing preservatives will last longer than those that I call natural. My feelings are, if ...Pyrex Mixing Bowls - A Kitchen Favorite Pyrex mixing bowls typically come in sets of 3 with a small, medium and large bowl that sits snuggly inside each other. Pyrex has been around for almost 90 years. Over 75 percent of households in America own at least one piece of Pyrex.Like so many things we use today, the original idea led to the present glass dishes we know as Pyrex. Be ...
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