Archive Category: 'Food'

• Quick Tips: Baking Short Cuts: Kitchen too cool for the yeast dough? Should be 80 to 85° and no drafts. Set covered dough in cabinet (or oven) beside pan of boiling water. When water cools, re-heat. Dough sticky? So it won’t be difficult to knead without using lots of flour: After mixing, turn dough onto lightly floured canvas; cover with mixing [...]
• Tempting Crockpot Recipes: I’ve been hunting for slow cooker recipes this past week, here are my top picks that I found online. Enjoy! Recipe Hit List: Tempting Crockpot Recipes Chicken & Vegetables With Herbs: Chicken legs, mushrooms, pearl onions and herbs smothered in sauce, yum! Recipe found at Better Homes And Gardens. Slow Cooker Sweet and Sour Chicken with Rice and [...]
• Crockpot Cooking Tips & Tricks: If you don’t like the taste or texture of the meat from simmering in its juices, set the meat on a layer of vegetables (like potatoes, onions or carrots) or set it on foil balls high enough to keep the meat out of the juices (see directions on this recipe for the foil ball method). Spray [...]
• Recipe Hit List: Eggs For Breakfast: Looking for a nice brunch or breakfast recipe for this weekend? This week’s Hit List features 10 breakfast recipes I’ve found around the web this past week, each dish featuring eggs. Recipes are easy to prepare with no fussy ingredients, all look delicious! Recipe Hit List: Eggs For Breakfast Baked Eggs, Toast and Bacon in One Package: [...]
• Homemade Pancake Syrup Recipe: Ingredients: 1 cup-sized chunk brown sugar 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar 1 cup white sugar 1 cup water 1 tsp. maple flavoring Directions: Boil until temperature is 200°F on candy thermometer. Cool and serve. Storage: Keep in airtight container. Source: The Creative Cook’s Recycling Book by Ruth Johnson Tip: If you prefer a thick syrup, keep refrigerated. Also see Perfect Fluffy Pancakes and Easy Raspberry Butter Recipe (great [...]
• 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 [...]
• Homemade Cookie Recipes: After the earlier tip today (Tips Guide For Making Homemade Cookies), there could only be one batch of recipes for this week’s Recipe Hit List–Cookies! Here are a dozen tempting cookie recipes–I’m confident there’ll be a recipe or two in here that will tempt you to get out the mixing bowl and cookie sheets … Recipe [...]
• Tips Guide For Making Homemade Cookies: Here are a bunch of tips I’ve collected from several old cookbooks that will help you fill the family cookie jar with tasty treats. You’ll find a tip list for baking cookies plus a a selection of storage tips for your freshly baked homemade cookies. I’ve also included a Basic Refrigerator Dough Recipe at the bottom with [...]
• Handy Substitute Recipes For Baking: Cake Flour Recipe: If you’re running short on cake flour and need it now, here’s a tip for making your own: Add two level tablespoons of corn starch to a one cup measuring cup, then fill with bread flour. Sift three times then use as needed. Self Rising Flour Recipe: In a one cup measure, place [...]
• 7 Easy Freeze-Ahead Shortcuts: Today’s feature is from WholeLiving (Martha Stewart) with Freeze It Week, Day 3: 7 Easy Shortcuts: Freezing ready-to-heat meals is one way to cut down the time until dinner; keeping certain must-have at-the-ready foods in the freezer is another. Read on for our ways (and some of our friends’ ways) of bringing convenience to kitchen life [...]
• 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 [...]
• Make Ahead Casseroles: Recipes: Where did the summer go? Fall’s here and suddenly, BAM, things are crazy busy. I’ve been in the mood for meal planning and make ahead / freezer casserole dishes. Here’s a whopping 10 recipes that have caught my eye this past week…Good Grief I’m Hungry, these all sound so tasty! Recipe Hit List: Make Ahead Casseroles Make-Ahead [...]
• 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 [...]
• Recipe Hit List: Cool Summer Treats: The weather’s been very hot here this past week so all I’ve been interested in is cool, refreshing summer treats…here are the recipes I’ve found around the net that caught my eye (there are some neat ideas found in this bunch): Limonada, Lemonade or Limeade: If you love freshly made homemade lemonade (or limeade) but hate [...]
• Mayonnaise Plus: 19 Quick Recipes: Add some zip to mayonnaise with these 19 Quick & Easy recipes…use as dressings for vegetable or fruit salads, many would be good for veggie dips too. Feel free to lighten the load by using low-fat mayo! Mayonnaise Plus Into 1/2 cup ready-to-use mayonnaise or cooked salad dressing, stir one of these: For Green or Vegetable Salads: Cheesy Mayonnaise: 1/4 [...]
• Recipe Hit List – Tasty Main Dishes: Here are this week’s recipes found around the net that have caught my eye, enjoy! Summer Eggs: Quick & easy meal with a half dozen green, red and yellow peppers forming the basis of this dish, from Have Pinny Will Cook. Pizza Breadstick Casserole: Use a box of Pillsbury’s refrigerated Parmesan breadsticks to make this easy hot [...]
• Green Goddess Dressing – Recipe: According to Wikipedia, Green Goddess Dressing was possibly the most popular dressing before Ranch dressing was invented. Here’s the recipe I have for it from an old community cookbook: Green Goddess Dressing Ingredients: 1 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup sour cream 3 TBS tarragon vinegar 1/2 cup heavy cream 1 clove garlic, crushed fine 2 TBS parsley 1 TBS lemon juice salt and freshly grated pepper [...]
• 25 Cooking & Baking Tips – Timeless Wisdom Collection: These tips for cooking and baking are from a large collection of tips I’ve gathered together from a variety of books and magazines from the 1940s and 1950s…most of these are quite unique I think since I don’t recall coming across them before. 25 Cooking & Baking Tips Sift flour as it is being emptied into the [...]
• Recipe Hit List – Assorted Goodies: Judging by the page views, last week’s Recipe Hit List was a hit with readers here on Tipnut. I’ll be sticking with a once-a-week list format to feature recipes that catch my eye and since I normally don’t have a lot of room on Tipnut to feature all the fantastic and oh-so-tempting recipes I come [...]
• 2 Tasty Recipes To Shake The Salt Habit: Salt Free Seasoning Shake Recipe #1 1 TBS garlic powder 1 tsp basil 1 tsp thyme 1 tsp parsley 1 tsp savory 1 tsp mace 1 tsp onion powder 1 tsp black pepper 1 tsp sage 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper Salt Free Seasoning Shake Recipe #2 2 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp basil 1 tsp oregano 1 tsp lemon peel powder Directions For Both: Simply mix together the ingredients from either [...]
• 10 Strategies to Masterful Food Preparation in Minimal Time: Today’s feature is from Dumb Little Man with 10 Strategies to Masterful Food Preparation in Minimal Time: Many people feel swamped with the immensity of their daily tasks, and often cooking is seen as a ‘luxury!’ The good news is that sitting down to a home cooked meal even on the busiest of days, isn’t impossible. [...]
• Recipe Hit List: Tasty Frozen Treats: Here’s a selection of frozen & fruity treat recipes that have caught my eye this week, each of them are guaranteed to be welcome on a hot summer’s day! 30 Days of Summer Drink Recipes: Good Housekeeping’s list of 30 different special frozen drinks and smoothie recipes to sip this season (found via Lifehacker). Easy Homemade Slushees: [...]
• Party Punch Ice Ring Directions: Here’s an easy way to jazz up the punch bowl with a fruit filled and flavored ice ring. Make sure to use a mold which can be placed in the freezer. Directions: Fill mold half full with half a 6 1/4 oz. can of frozen orange juice, thawed, and half a can of water (mix the juice and [...]
• How To Make Strawberry Jam: Small Batch Making For Beginners: Today’s feature is a nice video that walks you through step-by-step how to make a small batch of strawberry jam–this is perfect for beginners! But that’s not all, the site that created the video also has plenty of pdf downloads to get your preserve-groove on (good for both beginners and pros)! If you love the idea [...]