Archive Category: 'Cooking Tips'

• 45 Cooking & Baking Tips: A Collection Of Timeless Wisdom: Here’s a handy list of cooking and baking tips from the 1950s and 1960s that I’ve collected from a variety of vintage clippings. Each of the tips are from magazine articles or newspaper advice columns containing helpful ideas sent in from women sharing their tips with each other. I consider these tips as timeless wisdom, [...]
• Making A Herb Pot: Today’s feature is from the Herbal Farmstead with The Herb Pot: Every pantry should have one, the greens jar, herb pot or what I often refer to as the pantry pot. The much used container full of savory herbs, wild greens and cast away tops from the garden or plucked wild from safe byways or fields, [...]
• How to Turn Cheap Choice Steaks into Gucci Prime Steaks: Today’s feature is from Steamy Kitchen with the recipe tip How to Turn Cheap “Choice” Steaks into Gucci “Prime” Steaks: Massively salt your steaks 15 min – 1 hour before grilling. Notice that I didn’t say, “sprinkle liberally” or even “season generously.” I’m talking about literally coating your meat until you can’t see red. It should resemble [...]
• Once A Month Cooking: Tips & Resources: This is something I’d LOVE to develop more in our household, and some would say I’m a failure at it since I’ve been flirting with the concept for about six years now without fully participating on a regular basis–but I find it’s a worthwhile interest and pursuit no matter how much I can manage. Once A [...]
• Video: Removing Pin Bones from Salmon: Today’s feature is a quick video showing how to remove bones from salmon:
• Quick Fixins: Boil Hamburger: Until a few years ago, I never knew that instead of frying up ground beef–you could boil it. And it took me a couple more years to actually try it, lol. Can you boil hamburger? You betcha, but boiled hamburger doesn’t sound that appealing does it . It’s actually good though (at least my [...]
• Recipes & Quantities for Serving Large Groups: Sandwich Spread Recipe 2 lbs. chopped assorted meats 1 cup finely chopped celery 1 cup salad dressing 1/2 cup pickle relish (or chili sauce) 2 TBS finely chopped onion 1 TBS Worcestershire sauce 2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper Brown Sugar Sauce Recipe (for Cake) 2 lbs. brown sugar 9 cups boiling water 9 TBS cornstarch 9 TBS butter 4 1/2 tsp vanilla pinch of salt Bring ingredients to a boil. [...]
• Perfect Fluffy Pancakes: Today’s feature tip is from Minnesota Mama with her Instructions For Making Perfect Fluffy Pancakes–every time! I found a recipe for ‘Perfect Pancakes’ in a favorite cookbook of mine so I gave it a try. We didn’t know what we were missing! The recipe calls for you to separate the egg whites from the yolks and [...]
• Homemade Non-Stick Spray Recipes: Simple & Easy Cooking Spray Fill a pump spray bottle with olive oil or vegetable oil and use as you would commercial non-stick spray products. Homemade Non-Stick Spray 1/2 cup vegetable or olive oil 4 TBS liquid lecithin (found at health food stores) Mix ingredients well and store in a pump spray bottle. Recipe can be made in batches [...]
• Recipe Ingredient Substitutions & Equivalents Chart: Continuing with last week’s first attempt at providing a series of free downloadable kitchen charts, here is one for recipe ingredient substitutions. Ingredient substitutions are mainly used when baking or cooking dishes and you realize at the last minute you’re out of stock of the necessary food item. There may be a taste or texture change [...]
• Kitchen Measurements Equivalent Conversion Chart: Here is a printable copy of a recipe measurements equivalent and conversions chart that I designed to have at my fingertips when baking and cooking in the kitchen. There are Liquid Measures equivalents, Dry Measures, U.S. to Canadian, Recipe Abbreviations, Oven Temperatures, Fahrenheit to Celsius oven temps, and a bit more. Some of the numbers were [...]
• How To Bake Potatoes Fast + Recipe: Two different tips for cutting the time needed for baked potatoes. First scrub and clean potatoes as you normally do, then: Parboil the potatoes by boiling them in water for about 5 – 7 minutes. Drain, then dry with a clean tea towel. Bake in the oven as usual, you’ll find the cooking time cut in [...]
• One Pot Cooking: Recipes & Tips: Today’s feature tip is from Earth Easy and their information on One-Pot Cooking: One-pot cooking used to be the exclusive domain of bachelors, campers and college students just moved away from home. Meals were quick, simple and often right out of the box. The concept was great – just one pot to wash, but the meals [...]
• How To Microwave Fresh Corn on the Cob: Cooking times will vary due to cob size, amount of corn cobs cooked at the same time, microwave type and personal taste/preference, experiment a bit to see what works best for you. Tip: Try adding salad herbs or chopped chives to the corn when preparing, or make a separate dish with melted butter and chives to brush [...]
• How To Make Deviled Eggs: Fill deviled eggs easily with this tip: Prepare the deviled egg mixture according to your favorite recipe. Place mixture in a ziploc bag, snip off a small corner and squeeze filling into hollowed egg whites. No mess and fills the egg nicely! For a decorative deviled egg: Use a pastry bag with a nozzle to get [...]
• How to Clarify Butter: Sounds a bit intimidating for those of us that aren’t gourmet chefs or fancy cooks, but cooking with clarified butter is a great habit to get into if you fry or saute dishes, it doesn’t brown quickly like regular butter can. Clarified butter is melted butter fat with the milk solids and water removed. This [...]
• Darken Gravy Tricks & Gravy Enhancer Recipes: How to Darken Gravy: Last minute “in a pinch” fixes… Instant Coffee Granules Soy Sauce Dark Molasses Cocoa Worcestershire Sauce Gravy Enhancers like Kitchen Bouquet, Gravy Master Recipes for Prepare Ahead Homemade Gravy Enhancers: Kitchen Bouquet Copycat Recipe Ingredients: 1/2 cup brown sugar 2 cups water Directions: Cook brown sugar slowly in a pan on stovetop till it burns, stir slowly throughout entire cooking process. Once the brown sugar turns [...]
• 10 Frugal Leftover Turkey Recipes: Tip: You can freeze leftover turkey slices in freezer bags to use within the next month–just make sure you remove all air from the bags. Use the turkey carcass to make soups and stocks. Both can be frozen in sealed containers. Dice the cooked turkey and prepare turkey pies and freeze for future meals Hot turkey sandwiches are [...]