Archive Category: 'Food'

• 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. 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: 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 [...]
• 19 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! Corn On The Cob [...]
• 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). There 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 Maraschino 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 [...]
• 50+ 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 [...]
• Watermelon Carving Tips: Today’s feature is from the National Watermelon Promotion Board with these Easy Watermelon Carving Tips: Carvings & Fun Ideas Following These Tips Will Make Carving Easier, Safer and Give You More Professional Results The tips include: Have the watermelon at room temperature before you start carving since the cuts will be easier to make. Refrigerate after carving is [...]
• Cooking Tips {Vegetables} Timeless Wisdom Collection: The Timeless Wisdom collection has been a regular feature on Tipnut where we take a look at the methods and techniques used decades ago in cookery and homemaking. Today’s list will be the last bunch of Timeless Wisdom tips published on Tipnut for awhile, but they’ll be back! These tips are from the 1930’s (and a [...]
• 27 Pasta Salad Recipes To Try: Summer’s finally here and that means plenty of BBQs, picnics and potluck suppers to enjoy–and pasta salads! This week’s Recipe Hit List is a collection of pasta salad recipes I’ve found around the net, plenty new ones to me and hopefully you’ll find a few favorites for your recipe box too. Enjoy! 27 Pasta Salad Recipes *Note: Descriptions [...]
• Pie Crusts & Pastry: Baking Tips: Everyone wants to make that perfect “melt-in-your-mouth” pastry that the family will brag about. Follow these simple but important rules and a light, tender pastry will result. Tips For Making Pie Crusts & Pastry Have all ingredients as cold as possible. Measure accurately. Handle mixture lightly and carefully. Use just enough water to bind mixture. Bake at correct temperature. Good Pastry has [...]
• Kitchen Quick Tips {Eggs} Timeless Wisdom: These snippets of kitchen tips come from articles and booklets published in the 1940’s & 1950’s. Each quick tip is about eggs and how to best use them. Many you probably know but you might pick up a new trick or two with this batch. The Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut [...]
• 16 Homemade Salsa Recipes & Canning Tips: This week’s Recipe Hit List is a collection of homemade salsa recipes, some are canning recipes while others are for refrigerating & serving fresh. There’s a mix of recipes that use garden fresh tomatoes and ingredients while others use canned tomatoes. I also added a few resources at the bottom that are packed with info [...]
• How To Freeze Fruit: Buying fruits in bulk when they are in season and then freezing them is a great way to save money on groceries (when they’re at their lowest price), this also lets you enjoy your favorite fruits year round. Freezing fruits is a method of food preservation that is much quicker than canning and no fancy [...]
• 101 Homemade Jam, Jelly & Marmalade Recipes: This week’s Recipe Hit List is a whopper! Here are 101 hand-picked recipes featuring homemade jams, jellies & marmalades made from fruits, berries, herbs, flowers and produce harvested from early Spring right through to Fall. The collection includes a mix of tried-and-true traditional favorites, many featuring a flavor twist and others that are quite interesting [...]