Archive Category: 'Food Tips'

• 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, [...]
• 50 Quick Tips For The Kitchen: Strawberry Tip: Wash freshly picked strawberries & then take a wide plastic straw and insert it at the bottom of a strawberry–then push the stem out. This was previously published as a feature tip on Tipnut for Ask Your Neighbor – Helpful Household Tips. Measuring Tip: Rinse measuring cup in hot water before using syrup, oil, [...]
• 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 [...]
• How To Make Chocolate Dipped Spoons: Chocolate dipped spoons are easy to make and are a nice treat for your coffee, great gifts for coffee lovers! Here’s how to make them: Ingredients Milk Chocolate (use a bag of chocolate chips if you like) Dark Chocolate (2 squares or small handful of chips – used for decoration. Amount will vary depending on embellishments used.) White Chocolate [...]
• Pickles And Relishes: Points On Pickling: Use firm, good quality vegetables and fruits for making pickles. Some vegetables, such as cucumbers require soaking in brine before covering with vinegar. This soaking helps maintain the firmness and color of the vegetables during the pickling process. It also reduces bitterness. Cucumbers for gherkins should be placed in brine as soon after picking as possible. [...]
• 10 ReaLemon Juice Household Hacks Plus Bonus Recipe: Garden Grit Hand Cleaner: Splash some ReaLemon in your hands and scrub in hot soap and water. Gets the grime off lickety-split. Laundry Booster: Toss in a half cup of ReaLemon (plus laundry detergent) when washing whites. Also a good stain pretreater (for whites), just spritz on some ReaLemon and soak before washing. You could also [...]
• How To Tap Maple Trees And Make Maple Syrup: Today’s feature is a pdf report from the University of Maine How To Tap Maple Trees And Make Maple Syrup (pdf): A tree should be at least 10 inches in diameter, measured at 4 1/2 feet above the ground, before tapping. Trees between 10 and 20 inches in diameter should have no more than one tap [...]
• Quick Tip: Easy Jello Mold Release: Two easy ways to get a Jello mold to release itself cleanly from the mold: Cover the open side of the mold with a plate and then flip. Let it sit at room temperature until the Jello drops out itself (about 45 to 60 minutes before serving). Just cover with plastic wrap and re-chill if you [...]
• How To Choose A Good Watermelon: icking a perfect watermelon to buy can be a little tricky. It may look fine to the untrained eye, but get it home and it’s tasteless or worse yet–has a rancid bite to it. Here are a few things to look for when choosing a good watermelon: Look for the tell-tale “ripe spot”. It will be on [...]
• How To Crack A Coconut: Today’s feature is from Adventures in Thai Cooking & Travel with a page full of instructions for How To Crack a Coconut and more: Quick version: Hold coconut over a bowl in one hand such that the “midriff” rests in the middle of your palm, with the tip on one end and the eyes on the [...]