Archive Category: 'Food Tips'

• How to Clean and Chop Herbs Quickly: Today’s feature is a video showing how to wash bunches of herbs quickly and then how to chop them: Basically the tip is to hold onto the stems then dunk the bunch of herbs up and down into a bowl of water and swish around like a washing machine. Shake off excess water then stick the [...]
• Storing Garden Crops: Cold Storage Tips: Home storing of the less perishable vegetables for winter use has almost become a lost art. Cabbage, turnips, radishes, beets, carrots, Brussels sprouts, celery, potatoes and apples may be stored in cool and moist surroundings. Onions require a cool and dry atmosphere; and pumpkins, squash and sweet potatoes need a dry place where it is relatively [...]
• 20 Freezing Quick Tips: Timeless Wisdom Collection: Here are 20 quick tips for freezing that I’ve collected from a variety of 1950s articles and books. This will be the last collection of timeless wisdom tips for awhile, I hope you enjoyed them! 20 Quick Tips For Freezing Food Items Cream can be frozen for future use. Place enough cream for use at one time in [...]
• How To Meal-Stretch A Chicken: Today’s feature is from The Simple Dollar with The Frugal Whole Chicken (or, Waste Not, Want Not): A whole chicken is an incredibly frugal deal that provides the materials for several meals if you’re sensible about it. Here’s the game plan for turning a whole chicken purchase into several delicious meals. The Suggestions: Meal #1: The Chicken Itself Meal [...]
• How To Wrap Meat Like A Pro: This tutorial is perfect timing if you’re bulk buying and stocking up the freezer this fall, here’s how to wrap meat nice & air tight for freezing. It’s important to wrap properly to preserve the quality of the meat and protect it from freezer burn or your grocery investment is shot. Lotsa pictures! How To Wrap [...]
• 20 Canning Tips – Timeless Wisdom Collection: These tips for canning are collected from the 1940s and 1950s, most are quite practical but one is truly a piece of old-timer wisdom that I couldn’t resist including (you’ll know which one when you see it!). I’ve also included a section “Canning Arithmetic” from that time period, it provides a guideline for what canned [...]
• Cookbook Lingo: 101 Cookery Terms & Definitions: Bain-marie: A French double boiler or a large open vessel half-filled with hot water in which saucepans are placed to keep contents nearly at boiling point. Bake: To cook by dry heat in the oven. Baste: To moisten food while cooking with juices from the pan or other liquid. The liquid is ladled over the food to [...]
• 34 Handy Kitchen Measurement Hacks & Tidbits: Do you find yourself always scrambling to find out how much one stick of butter is? Or how many eggs you need to make a cup? Do you know how much 1 cup of uncooked rice makes? Here’s a handy chart you can print off to include with your other kitchen chart goodies (see: Recipe Ingredient [...]
• Infused Water Recipes: Refreshing Non-Alcoholic Summer Drinks: Today’s feature tip is from Bohemian Revolution with Infused Water Recipes – Refreshing Non-Alcoholic Summer Drinks. If you caught my tips earlier this year for How To Beat The Soda Pop Addiction–you’ll find these suggestions a great way to increase your water intake while cutting the soda without even missing it: Spanish cuisine brought us aguas frescas, [...]
• How To Cut A Whole Chicken – Video: Today’s feature is a YouTube video showing how to cut a whole chicken. Save money on your grocery bill by buying chickens whole then carving them up yourself–and it’s really not that hard! Here’s the video, it’s nice & quick yet covers the details well: Chicken Butchery 101 Butchery Basics: Cutting A Whole Chicken Into Parts Each [...]
• 15 Tips For Leftover & Surplus Food Items: Here are 15 Quick Tips for stretching out and using the last little bit of a food item instead of tossing the extra bit out. This is not only less wasteful–it saves cash! This page is a compilation of individual Quick Tips previously published that will be deleted from the Tipnut blog–they’ve been moved here all [...]
• Common Causes Of Poor Quality Pickles: Tip Sheet: If you plan on doing any cucumber pickling this year, here’s a tip sheet of common pickle problems and why they happen. I’ve also included a recipe for homemade pickling spice blend at the bottom. Shriveled Pickles Shriveling may result from using too strong a vinegar, sugar, or salt solution at the start of the pickling process. [...]
• 40 Cool Watermelon Carvings & Fun Ideas: Today’s feature is from the National Watermelon Promotion Board with Watermelon Carvings & Fun Ideas, these designs are amazing! You’ll find pictures and instructions for making the following carvings & designs: Americana Basket Artie the Airplane Baby Carriage Birthday Cake Cascading Basket Celebrate! Convertible Bug Fish Flower Flowering Garden Football Cake Football Helmet Heart Basket Jack-O-Melon Ladybug Rabbit Ribbon Basket Smile Southwest Salsa Bowl T-Rex Dinosaur Tea Pot The Peacock The Ship The Swan The Trophy The [...]
• Watermelon On Tap: How To: Today’s feature is from Evite.com with Drunken Watermelon On Tap: I know what you’re thinking: “What if I attached a faucet to a watermelon and filled it with spiked watermelon juice so party guests could serve themselves right from the melon?” Well, my husband finally turned that dream into a reality. After testing three different types [...]
• How To Turn One Stick Of Butter Into Two: Today’s feature is from Choosing Voluntary Simplicity with a tip for How To Turn One Stick Of Butter Into Two, I’ve also included another recipe plus tip below: Extended butter is easy to make. Just beat one half cup of lukewarm water into one softened stick of butter. If you use a mixer, start slowly to [...]
• Make Your Own Microwave Popcorn – Cheap!: Today’s feature is from The New York Times with Microwave Popcorn, Minus the Ripoff, plus there are a few more popcorn goodies included below: All you do is take popcorn — say, 1/4 cup — and put it in a brown paper bag (preferably the large lunch bags sold in supermarkets ), then fold over the [...]
• Homemade Herbal Teas – How To: Today’s feature is from Country Living with a packed resource for making Homemade Herbal Teas: Gardens, supermarkets, and health-food stores are filled with edible flowers, herbs, bushes, trees, even some weeds that, when steeped, make delicious and healthful hot brews. The article provides a great list (on page two) of edible & drinkable flowers, bushes, trees, [...]
• Smart Tip: Bulk Freezing With Individual Portions: Today’s feature is from Lunch In A Box with a super smart tip for freezing foods in bulk, yet still have easy access to individual portions, Speed Tip: Make Individual Portions In Freezer Bags… A standard tip for freezing ground foods or thick sauces in small portions is to first put the food into a [...]
• How To Make Chocolate Leaves: Chocolate leaves are so easy to make! Use them for decorating cakes, cupcakes, cheesecakes, add them to ice cream or make desserts more special with some chocolate leaves as tasty garnishes. Items Needed: Fresh herb leaves (washed & patted dry) Melted chocolate Small pastry brush or paintbrush Directions: Taking a clean pastry brush, paint the melted chocolate on the back of a [...]
• How To Make Yogurt: Today’s feature is from MakeYourOwnYogurt.com with a step-by-step tutorial on How To Make Your Own Yogurt: Why Make Your Own? Like most things homemade, yogurt you make yourself is just better: It tastes better It’s better for you (no preservatives, sugar or chemicals added) It’s less expensive There’s no packaging waste If you’d like your own copy of the tutorial, [...]
• How To Make Crockpot Oatmeal & Oatmeal In A Thermos: Wake up to a hot, healthy breakfast ready and waiting for you with a simple recipe for overnight crockpot oatmeal–or try an easy to prepare thermos full of oatmeal that is hot & ready when you get up. You can add all sorts of delicious good-for-you things like dried cranberries, blueberries, raisins, apple slices and more. [...]
• Garlic Tips & Techniques: Today’s feature is a nice pdf from Cooks Illustrated for Garlic Tips & Techniques (pdf): When buying garlic in the store, make sure to buy firm, tightly bound cloves. If your garlic has sprouted, it’s still all right to use in a pinch. Just remove the green sprout—it can make your dish taste bitter. Here we present [...]
• How To Roast Coffee Beans: Today’s feature is a DIY guide from Squidoo with The DIY Guide to Roasting Your Own Coffee!. Very cool and complete information provided, including The Green Coffee Bean Roasting Tutorial List: Dear Caffeine Seekers, Weary of overpriced, stale coffee beans? Wanna learn something cool? Love coffee? Curious about roasting your own coffee beans at home? Then [...]
• How To Make Ice Cream In A Bag: Today’s feature is from Kaboose with their tip Ice Cream in a Bag: Milk can become ice cream in five minutes! This homemade ice cream in a bag is a summertime delight for kids and adults alike. What you’ll need: 1 tablespoon sugar 1/2 cup milk or half & half 1/4 teaspoon vanilla 6 tablespoons rock salt 1 pint-size Ziploc plastic [...]
• Equivalents of Can Sizes: Can Size Measure 8 ounces 1 cup 10 1/2 ounces 1 1/4 cups 12 ounces 1 1/2 cups 16 ounces (1 lb) 1 3/4 cups     Can Size Weight Measure No. 1 10 – 12 ounces 1 1/3 cups No. 300 14 – 16 ounces 1 3/4 cups No. 1 1/2 or 303 1 lb – 17 ounces 2 cups No. 2 1 lb, 4 ounces 2 1/2 cups No. 2 1/2 1 lb, 12 ounces 3 1/2 cups No. 3 3 lbs, 3 ounces 4 [...]