Archive Category: 'Food'

• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• Summer Fruit Platter: Ingredients: 1 Whole Pineapple Assorted fruit pieces, ideas: Strawberries Watermelon Cantaloupe Pineapple Honeydew Melon Grapes Cherries Kiwi Orange pieces Dip: 1 jar marshmallow cream topping 1 cup sour cream 1 cup Cool Whip Directions: Cut a pineapple in half lengthwise and hollow out one half. Use this half as your fruit dip bowl and set in middle of platter. Cut the rest of the pineapple into chunks for serving. Make the dip by [...]
• How To Make A Chocolate Cake In 5 Minutes: Today’s feature is a fun tip from Dizzy-Dee with Chocolate Cake In 5 Minutes! Not sure if this is a good thing to know how to do since it’s soooo easy to whip up (and then gobble up) a sweet little cake whenever you crave some chocolate . Ingredients: 4 Tablespoons cake flour 4 Tablespoons sugar 2 Tablespoons [...]
• 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, [...]
• Monkey Munch Recipe: If you watch the tv show Jon & Kate Plus 8 on TLC, you know what monkey munch is . If not, this is a snack that both the kids and parents just love. Here’s the recipe for it: Monkey Munch 9 cups Chex cereal (any variety) 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/4 cup butter [...]
• 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 [...]
• Stuffed Mini-Pitas: Recipe: Pita Filling Ingredients: 1 cup sour cream 1 cup mayonnaise 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1/2 cup onion (minced) 1 can chopped water chestnuts (sliced) 1 package Knorr Vegetable Soup Mix Directions: Mix filling well. Store in refrigerator overnight. Cut small pitas in half & stuff with chilled filling, serve.
• Make Ahead Breakfast Casserole Recipe: Today’s feature is from The Pioneer Woman Cooks with a recipe for Sleepin’ in Omelette, if you’re on a diet or concerned about your arteries–keep moving and don’t look back! From the page: This is a delicious breakfast-or-shower-or-brunch-or-luncheon casserole that is not only flavorful, it’s disturbingly easy to prepare AND can be made up o 24 [...]
• Margarita Ice Pops – Recipe: Today’s feature is from Epicurious with a recipe for Margarita Ice Pops: For this clever riff on the “frozen” Margarita, try to use natural lime pops (sold at natural and specialty foods stores) rather than artificially colored and flavored varieties. Servings: Makes 6 servings Using ready made popsicles, all you need is 1/2 cup tequila, 6 tablespoons [...]
• Java Mop – Grilling Recipe: Coffee perks up many meats, including grilled pork chops, smoked pork picnic, and beef skirt steak. Ingredients: 2 cups strong brewed coffee 1/2 cup cider vinegar 1/2 cup water 2 to 4 TBS vegetable oil 2 TBS tomato based bbq sauce or ketchup 1 TBS smoked or sweet paprika Directions: Combine all ingredients, use a saucepan to heat the mop to a simmer. Use warm. [...]
• 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 [...]
• Use The Finger Test To Check The Doneness Of Meat: Today’s feature tip is from Simply Recipes with a neat How To – The Finger Test to Check the Doneness of Meat: This is one of those things that gets easier with practice. The next time you cook a steak, even if you are still planning to rely on a meat thermometer, press on the meat [...]
• How To Measure Flour: Today’s feature is from Cafe Fernando with How to Measure Flour, yes there is a technique to this for best results in baking: When I developed an interest in baking, one of the many things that confused me was how to measure flour. Instead of weighing the flour, most cookbooks I bought were instructing to measure [...]
• 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. [...]
• Raspberry Iced Tea Cooler – Recipe: Ingredients: 16 cups water 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 (12 oz) pkg frozen unsweetened raspberries (thawed) 1/4 cup lemon juice 4 tea bags (family size) Directions: Bring water to a boil, remove from heat, add sugar and stir until sugar has dissolved. Add the rest of the ingredients, stir well, cover then steep for 5 minutes. Strain then refrigerate the tea. Serve once the tea [...]
• Grilling Tips: 12 Ways To Kick Up The Flavor: Grill chicken with the skin on and rub seasonings under the skin, pull the skin off after chicken has cooked (if you prefer skinless chicken). This keeps the chicken moist and allows the seasonings to infuse the meat. For added flavor, remove steak from grill once it’s done then brush with some garlic parsley butter–yum! (substitute [...]
• Homemade Herb & Garlic Croutons: Ingredients: 3 cups dried bread cubes (about 1/2″ cubes) 3 TBS Extra Virgin Olive Oil 2 TBS butter 2 to 3 garlic cloves (minced) 1 tsp chopped parsley (fresh) 1 tsp chopped chives (fresh) 1 tsp chopped tarragon (fresh) Directions: In a large skillet heat the butter and oil (medium/high heat). Toss in the bread cubes and cook, stirring frequently for 3 to 5 minutes. Reduce [...]
• 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 [...]
• Kick Up A Casserole With Herb Crusts: Today’s feature is from The Breakaway Cook with Thyme Crust — Add Herby Crusts to Everything!: I’ve been hooked on crusts for a while now, and am on constant alert for new ones. My latest infatuation is with herb crusts, made simply by combining fresh herbs with small amounts of crusty bread, salt, and pepper. What do [...]