Cooking-Tips

8 Simple Commonsense Cooking Tips
Do you get lumps in your white sauce?When making white sauce (b?chamel) or any sauce that requires slow cooking to thicken try using an egg whisk instead of a spoon to stir and you can increase the temperature (not too much though) to speed the process up and you wont get any lumps in it. Read more →
A Beginners Guide to Chinese Cookery
IntroductionWhen I first ate Chinese food in the UK in the 1970s, it was really quite unappealing. Everything came in a gloopy sauce and seemed to taste the same, due to the overuse of monosodium glutamate, supposedly a flavour enhancer but in reality, nothing of the kind. Read more →
A Bushel a Day
Growing a vegetable garden has been a part of my life as far back as I can remember. It was an essential part of survival for my ancestors. How well we ate during the winter months depended on how much the garden produced. Read more →
A Cookie Assembly Line: Efficient Cookie Baking for Busy Cooks
As a busy working mother, I?m short on time, especially during the holidays, but baking Christmas cookies is a family tradition I?m unwilling to give up. Read more →
A Deep Frying Guide to Turkey
Deep frying has been producing tasty food for many years, but one of the new fads to come about with deep frying is cooking a whole turkey this way. Many people are foregoing the oven method at Thanksgiving and going with the deep frying method ? Read more →
A Delicious Companion to Good Health: The Olive Oil Story
?The? patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don?t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. Read more →
A Few Tips and Tricks for Using Vanilla Beans
If you watch any of the cooking shows on the Food Network, you?ve probably seen chefs on these shows scraping a vanilla bean to use in some fanciful dish. Read more →
A Flurry of Feathers
If you trespass on land that you do not own, chances are you will get asked to leave. I own my land but I share it with the wildlife that has always occupied it. Read more →
A Guide to Thanksgiving Turkey - Serving Size, Thawing, and Roasting
As Thanksgiving approaches and you begin to prepare for your Thanksgiving turkey dinner you may be having questions about how much turkey you need per person. Read more →
A Meat Smoker Produces A Strong Flavor
A meat smoker is a terrific tool for those of us who enjoy barbequed food. Most smokers will monitor the temperature of the flame, making any necessary adjustments to guarantee the meat is not over or under cooked. Read more →

Aphorism

Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to -- eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. it's on the menu constantly for both parties.


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