Archive Category: 'Food'

• How To Dry Apples (Apple Chips): It’s easy to make your own dried apple chips and pieces, they can be added to cereals, homemade granola, baked goods (such as muffins and cakes), yogurt or they’re tasty as a treat all by themselves. I’ve laid out the steps to oven drying the apple slices but you could use a dehydrator too–just use [...]
• How To Cook Lots Of Hard Boiled Eggs At Once: Here’s a tip sent in by Barb for making big batches of hard boiled eggs at once. Actually, they’re not boiled at all so maybe “hard-cooked” eggs is a more appropriate title . Here’s Barb’s tip: Here’s a way to cook lots of hard boiled eggs without having to work with big pots of boiling [...]
• 10 Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipes: This week’s Recipe Hit List is a collection of recipes for homemade pizza sauce, these compliment last week’s list of pizza dough recipes perfectly! Pizza Sauce Recipes ol> Pizza Sauce: I don’t know about you, but I have found store-bought pizza sauce seriously lacking. I think the taste can be too overpowering and the seasonings just aren’t [...]
• Kettle Corn: Recipe & How-To Tips: Here’s a great video showing how to make kettle corn, the creator of the video (Scott Hargrove) makes it look oh-so-easy…but the best part is how yummy this kettle corn is. If you can’t watch videos on your computer, I do have the recipe and instructions below. How To Make Kettle Corn Recipe: 1/4 cup vegetable oil (peanut [...]
• 16 Pizza Dough Recipes: Tasty!: This week’s Recipe Hit List is all about making your own tasty pizza dough. Some time ago I collected a bunch of recipes for homemade pizza that included a few pizza dough recipes but I decided that there were plenty more goodies out there that needed to be shared, so here’s the list. Enjoy! Homemade Pizza [...]
• How To Dry Figs: If you’re lucky enough to have a fig tree or if you’ve come across a good deal on fresh figs at the local market, here’s an easy way to preserve them by drying. Dried figs are a very healthy snack and they can be added to baked goods (such as cookies, muffins and cakes), in [...]
• How To Make Flavored Compound Butters: Recipes & Tips: Today’s feature is packed with a how-to video, recipe card downloads and a twist to flavored butter that may be new to you. First, Chrisjob at Curbly shows us How To Make Simple, Delicious Compound Butters with this easy to follow video: Doesn’t the butter look so delicious? You can get the recipe details & recipe [...]
• 35 Banana Bread Recipes To Try: Yum!: This week’s Recipe Hit List is a whopping collection of banana bread recipes I’ve found around the ‘net. A few are the basic banana breads with traditional ingredients that promise to be deliciously moist & dense, others kick things up a notch with ingredient additions such as Cherries, Lemon, Mango, Peanut Butter, Ginger, Coconut, Chocolate, [...]
• Home Canning: Signs of Spoilage: Canning produce from the garden is an excellent way to preserve food and save money on groceries, but you do have to take care and watch for signs of spoilage or contamination before eating the food you canned. Here’s a handy list of spoilage signs to watch for. strong>Canning: Signs of Spoilage Jar seals have bulging lids [...]
• Homemade Chai Tea Recipe: Today’s feature is a gift-worthy idea from Pass The Torch with Why Mess With What Works? Chai Tea Mix: blockquote> We made chai tea mix last year for teachers, bus drivers, coaches, etc, and everyone LOVED IT! Since the kids have all new teachers this year, I figure if it ain’t broke… Many of the spices are [...]
• Pick The Perfect Color: Handy Food Coloring Tool: Today’s feature is from McCormick with this handy online tool for finding & creating the perfect color you want for food coloring: McCormick’s Color Creator: The Perfect Color Is Easier Than Ever Make any occasion more fun with color! Our Color Creator shows you how to get the color you want every time. This little tool is actually [...]
• 25 Green Tomato Recipes To Try: This week’s Recipe Hit List is a collection of various recipes for green tomatoes that I’ve found online. I chose traditional favorites like recipes for fried green tomatoes, chutneys, relishes, salsas, pickles as well as a few interesting recipes such as green tomato bread, green tomato soup and a spaghetti sauce! Plenty of dishes to [...]
• How To Make Sun Dried Tomatoes: Traditionally sun dried tomatoes were made by laying out freshly cut pieces of tomatoes in the sun to bake in the natural heat for days (the tomato pieces were first covered in cheesecloth). Nowadays, we use the oven. In just a few hours, you can have bags to freeze or jars of homemade sun dried [...]
• 10 Ways To Soften Hard Brown Sugar: It happens to the best of us: rock hard brown sugar. How to soften it? Ten easy tips below: Place the brown sugar in an airtight container with a slice of fresh bread placed on top. Seal and leave overnight. It should be soft and fresh again in the morning, if not just let it sit [...]
• 20 Zucchini Bread Recipes To Try: Zucchini fresh from the garden is bountiful this time of year and making batches of homemade zucchini bread is a favorite way to use up the harvest. This week’s Recipe Hit List is a collection of recipes I’ve found online featuring many different ways to make zucchini bread: Traditional, Chocolate, Pineapple, Spiced and a few [...]
• Homemade Pesto Recipes & Tips: The traditional way to make pesto is with a mortar and pestle but here are two tasty recipes (one for basil pesto and the other for rosemary pesto) that you can make with your food processor. I’ve also added a video showing you how to make fresh pesto with a mortar and pestle along with [...]
• 22 Best Burger Recipes: Recipe Hit List: This week’s Recipe Hit List is all about burgers–thick, juicy homemade burgers. Grilled, gourmet or popped in the oven–I’m always a big fan. There are A LOT of burger recipes online to choose from, but I hand-picked what I thought looked Oh-So-Good and were the best: mainly Beef but also Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, Pork and [...]
• How To Freeze Vegetables: Garden-good vegetables all year round–so wonderfully tasty, and so easy to freeze! Save money on groceries by stocking up now on fresh produce–the quality and prices can’t be beat when vegetables are in season (better yet if you grow your own!). You can freeze perfectly most vegetables which you’d cook before serving. Salad vegetables lose crispness [...]
• 20 Corn On The Cob Recipes: Today’s earlier post showed how to cook corn on the cob in a variety of ways, now here’s a collection of recipes for this week’s Recipe Hit List to kick things up a notch. Plenty of ideas here to jazz up this favorite side with flavored butters, cheeses and seasoned spreads–delish! h2>20 Corn On The [...]
• Corn On The Cob: Handy Cooking Guide: Fresh corn on the cob from your garden or the local farmers market is a traditional favorite for summer meals and barbecues, here are six different ways you can cook it (some surprisingly easy). I’ve included a couple videos to show the grilling methods (with directions listed for those that can’t view them). How To Grill [...]
• 30 Lip Smackin’ Barbecue Sauce Recipes: This week’s Recipe Hit List is a collection of homemade bbq sauces I’ve found around the net (for ribs, chicken, pork–you name it). here are some really interesting recipes in this bunch with ingredients like espresso, bourbon whiskey, cherry cola, blueberries but there are plenty with more traditional ingredients too. Some sweet, some hot & spicy [...]
• Home Canning: Definitions Guide: Acid Foods: Fruits, tomatoes, rhubarb and pimientos are acid foods. Botulinus: Bacteria found in the soil have been known to cause toxin to form in carelessly canned foods. No danger when clean, sound, unblemished fresh produce is selected, prepared and canned according instructions. Low acid foods should be boil 15 minutes before tasting. The 15 minute [...]
• Fancy & Garnished Ice Cubes: How To: Garnished & Colored Ice Cubes araschino cherries, one to each cube, are very appropriate for garnishing. They can be frozen in plain or appropriately tinted cubes. Lemon juice and lemon slices are also desirable additions. When fruits are to be frozen in the cubes, fill the tray one-third full with water, then partially freeze. Add the fruit [...]
• 55 Homemade Popsicle Recipes: Here’s a fun collection of homemade popsicles for this week’s Recipe Hit List, perfect treat to enjoy during the summer season! This list isn’t exclusive to popsicles, I’ve also included pudding pops, frozen yogurt & fruit pops. Many of these recipes are a lot healthier (and sometimes cheaper) than buying ready-made. How to pick just one [...]
• Sweetened Condensed Milk: Recipe Substitutes: The list of Handy Substitute Recipes For Baking has been updated and the sweetened condensed milk substitute recipes from that page have been moved here. Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk Substitute Recipes 3/4 cup sugar, 1/3 cup butter, 1/3 cup boiling water, 1 cup skim milk powder. Combine all ingredients in a blender and mix until all lumps [...]