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Cake Decorating With Fondant
There are many ways to make a good covering layer on a cake for cake decorating, but one of the most popular is cake decorating with fondant.
Originally used by British Cake decorators it is quickly becoming the standard for U.S. cake decorators. It is very versatile and fairly easy…
Quick and Easy Dinner Recipes - Always 30 Mins or Less
Fighting traffic to pick up the kids just to chauffeur them to soccer or a piano lesson and then making it home just in time for your spouse to stroll in from work and plop down at the table stating he is hungry. Or maybe you are a single parent…
Cooking, Using Food Substitutions
Remember the kitchen's Golden Rule, that when preparing a particular recipe, you should read through it once and then gather all your needed ingredients and place them in your reach as you are putting together the ingredients. In this way you are not surprised half way through preparation that you…
How to Become Vegetarian
Are you wondering how to become vegetarian? Are you concerned that a vegetarian diet will result in lack of energy? Do you think it’ll be tough to find enough to eat—or that it won’t taste good? Are you concerned –as many are—that without a meat based diet you won’t get…
Copycat Recipes
Copycat recipes are some of my favorite types of recipes. But what are copycat recipes? you may be asking. Well usually copycat recipes are recipes that are quite simply meant to be like the original. Most copycat recipes are imitations of original restaurant recipes that most people are familiar with.…
Olive Oil Health Benefits
Other than adding flavor to your food, many people have wondered what are some of the health benefits that olive oil provides. Olive Oil Heath Benefits are many and just to name a few I have covered some of the ways this oil helps in maintaining good health.
Health Benefits…
How to Cook for A Vegetarian - Tips on Accomodating for Your Vegetarian Friends
If you're a meat eater, you may find it daunting to come up with vegetarian meal ideas. However it really is not that difficult to cook easy, tasty and filling meals for vegetarians once you know a few basics of what vegetarians expect and want.
Vegetarian food by definition is…
Cooking With A Pressure Cooker
Pressure cooker food hasn’t exactly been considered gourmet fare for the past few years.
Young gourmands have preferred more sophisticated methods of food preparation—but with a new emphasis on down home dishes and economical ways of cooking, food cooked in pressure cookers is gaining a new, enthusiastic following. Everything old…
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Or Evoo
If you are a true fan of the "food network" channels then you are already more than aware of all the hoopla centered around extra virgin olive oil, frequently referred to as "EVOO".
How did a liquid which stems from something so small get to be SO big? And what's…
Pressure Cooker Cooking
You’ve just been given a pressure cooker as a Christmas gift by your great aunt Beatrice, and you’d much rather have had a check.
You have no idea what the heck this big pot with the strange lid is for, or how to use it. You really don’t cook all…
Cooking For Kids – Save Your Sanity And Your Money
Cooking for kids is nothing like cooking for adults. Most adults are more open to trying new dishes and flavors. Kids are picky, picky, picky. One sure thing is that if a kids likes a dish, they REALLY like the dish and want it all the time. One battle I…
Table Manners: Do's And Don'ts
Over the years table manners have been greatly important. The crème de la crème always had the best of these essential manners while others simply ignored them and ate on. Obviously this sort of cycle has changed. Today, it’s either you have it or you don’t. You can imagine how…
Cooking Is An Art
Several things cross my mind when I hear the word ‘art’. Right since childhood, a very different sense of understanding has been instilled in us when it comes to art. Making several artistic pieces from clay or card papers, creative origami, painting landscapes, etc. always accounted as art. And it…
Kitchen Knife Sets - Why Most Of Them Are Useless
There are a lot of kitchen knife sets out there on the market and so many people fall for the idea that they need a set of about 30 different knives if they want to be able to produce good food in their kitchen. This is completely the wrong idea…
August Escoffier.The king of chefs,The chef of kings.
How August Escoffier Created The Modern Restaurant
August Escoffiier is cited as the main framework behind way we cook and eat in todays
Kitchens & Restaurants.
His vision and culinary clout made a completley different system from the old shambolic way things were being done behind the scenes and out…
Why You Need Paring And Peeling Knives
Paring and peeling knives are some of the smallest knives in a knife set. As you may have already thought, small knives help trim, cut and carve small food items. That is a pretty general description of these versatile knives. A larger explanation will help you understand all the uses…
Kitchen Gadgets - Making Cooking Easier
Kitchen Gadgets
In this modern day era there are many gadgets to make life a lot easier when cooking in the kitchen
Flavour Shaker
This a great substitute for the old fashioned pestle and mortar. I think it was invented by Jamie Oliver. It consists of two halves which screw…
Substitutions In Baking
You're in the middle of baking and run out of a key kitchen staple - what to do? Before you run off to the store or give up in the middle of your recipe, learn about the chemical reactions and are key to the baking process. Once you learn the…
Making Sushi Beginners Tips - Three Common Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
Just started making sushi? Then you are going on a fun journey and hopefully these three making sushi beginners tips, will help you avoid some common mistakes along the way.
Though this isn’t one of the tips, it is exceptionally good advice. The easiest way to make sushi for a…
Camp Cooking
Cooking at camps has proven impossible for many people. Some tend to overcook/under-cook the food, some simply can't cook without modern cookware while others get really sick after putting their camp cooking skills to test. However, cooking tricks never stop being advanced today, just like these simple but effective camp…
Bbq Grills: Gas Or No Gas
BBQ GrillsThere are many types of bbq grills to choose from and picking one out is basically up to what you wish to do with your grill. Generally there are two options: charcoal and gas. If you go with a natural gas grill you will need a propane tank to…
Preserving Fresh Apples For Winter Use
Apples have got to be one of the most versatile of home grown fruit and every year they offer families a really good food source in sweet or savory recipes. Preserving fresh apples for winter use can be as simple as wrapping them in paper and storing in a garden…
Is Butter Best
As a young girl growing up in the country, I vaguely remember my grandmother churning butter. The large barrel held a lot of milk. Making butter was a labor of love that took patience and strength. I can still see in my mind the large, golden, soft chunks of butter…
Making Homemade Sausages And Burgers With Food Prep Machines
I've spent hours trawling through the supermarkets looking at ingredients on food packaging to see if the end product and hence my meal will be tasty and nutritious. It's so disappointing when you sit down to eat burgers or sausages and the taste just doesn't match up to your expectations.…
How to Make Aioli Using Two Methods
Aioli is effectively a garlic-flavored mayonnaise. It is a condiment that can be used in many different styles of food preparation. For example, it can be used to coat a boneless chicken breast or filet of fish before it is dipped in flour or breadcrumbs. Then this can be pan-seared…
Sausage Meat Too Soft - Sausage Making Supplies
Sausage making is art but the quality of sausage being made and how it will end up tasting also depends on the quality of sausage making supplies used. A person can be an expert at using a sausage stuffer and meat grinder, they may be able to stuff 20 pounds…
Malakoff Cheese Recipe, the Swiss Mercenary Food Of the 1850s
The Malakoffs are a Swiss dish that consists in Deep fried Cheese Sticks. The name comes from the "Fort Malakoff" that defended town of Sevastopol throughout the Crimean War between 1853 and 1855. The Battle of Malakoff is the major battle fought between French-British forces against Russia on the 8…
How to Start a Charcoal Grill Without Burning Your Eyebrows
Firing up the grill on those warm evenings of summer is a great way to get together with friends and family for a delicious, tasty meal.
Getting your Charcoal grill might seem intimidating at first but really it’s not that hard. By following these easy steps you’ll be enjoy a…
Paleo Diet Food List Pt1
Hello Everyone! I thought a good way to start off on today's topic would be to talk about the paleo diet food list. I guess you probably want to know what kinds of foods more specifically you will be able to eat on the diet. Now as we talked about…
Gas Grills Dallas Tx: How To Choose The Right Wood For Smoking
If there’s one thing people who cook on gas grills Dallas TX know, it’s that nothing tastes better than grilled meat. They also know that if you cook meat with smoke, you get the added dimension of mouthwatering, smoky flavor and aroma. If you’re getting ready to purchase your gas…