Cooking-Tips

An Impressive Dinner Party Dessert for Around $10
Ingredients:1 litre (2 pints) fresh gelati, from a specialist gelati store like Gelatissimo in Sydney (about $8)1/2 pack Sara Lee Bake at Home cookie dough (about $4/pack but half can go in the freezer ? Read more →
An Old Friend - Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker is an icon that many of us have grown up with through the years. Betty Crocker is synonymous with cookbooks and cake mixes. I can still remember seeing the picture of good old Betty on the box of those delicious cake mixes. Read more →
Asaf0etida (Ferula Foetida): Devil's Dung
Devil?s dung sounds like a less than appetizing ingredient to add to your recipe, but when a pinch is used judiciously, it is sinfully good. Asafoetida is native to Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Read more →
Avocados the Perfect Fruit for Guacamole or Milk Shakes?
The avocado is a pear shaped fruit that can also be known as an alligator pear. Avocados are grown in warm temperate climates with the average avocado tree producing around 120 avocados a year. Read more →
Bacon Pre-Cooked Vs. Traditional
I have never met a person who didn?t like bacon. It has all the qualities of a choice food, it is crispy, it is salty, it can be sweet and you can never have enough. Read more →
Bacteria and Food-borne Diseases
Types of BacteriaBacteria are all around us, in the air, water, ground, on our skin and in our bodies. They are classified in a variety of ways, but for our purpose we can categorize them in a more basic way. Read more →
Bakers Tips
Yeast CheckingTo find out if your yeast is good, first dissolve 1 tablespoon of sugar or other sweetener in warm water with 2 cups of liquid and then add your yeast. Read more →
Baking Bread and Your Freezer
There's a lot of bread in our freezer. In our exuberance, we often bake more bread than we can eat in a day or two. What isn't given away goes in the freezer. Read more →
Baking Bread in a Dutch Oven
Dutch ovens were made for baking. In the hands of a practiced baker, a Dutch oven will create beautiful breads and desserts. (Though some of us tend to burn breads in a Dutch oven. Read more →
Baking Perfect Breads, Cookies, and Desserts
We're all looking for that perfect pie, or cookies, or loaf of bread. It doesn't always happen. In our experience, there are four reasons that account for most of the less than perfect products. Read more →

Aphorism

Come up to me with a doughnut or a bag of chips. That would be perfect.


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