25 Kitchen tips
Posted October 31st, 2009For cleaning smelly hands after chopping onions or garlic, just rub them on a stainless steel spoon. The steel is supposed to absorb the odor.
Fresh coffee beans can also absorb nasty odors from your hands.
If you happen to over-salt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato. The potato will absorb the excess [...]
Indian cooking tips
Posted October 30th, 2009Add a handful of rice flour to bhajia batter for crisper and less oily bhajias.
Drain and keep any extra channa dal aside after cooking. Chill and then add chopped onions, chutneys, coriander, salt, chopped cucumber and tomatoes. Serve chilled as bhel with cups of steaming hot tea.
If batter of any bhajias tends to become too [...]
Kitchen tips and cooking tips
Posted October 29th, 2009You can use dried coriander and mint leaves in coarse powder form in vegetable curry or chutney, if fresh ones are not available. To keep them fresh for longer time, wrap them in a muslin cloth and keep in a fridge.
Put some boric powder in kitchen in corners and other places. Cockroaches will leave your [...]
The Benefits Of Slow Cooking
Posted October 27th, 2009Getting dinner ready day after day can become a tiresome and repetitious task that you may very well become tired of doing after a long period of time. There may be days when you simply don’t want to deal with having to get something ready for your family because you’re too tired or you don’t [...]
Cantonese Regional
Posted October 26th, 2009Easily the most well-known of the Chinese regional cuisines, Cantonese cuisine comes from the region around Canton in Southern China. Simple spices and a wide variety of foods used in cooking characterize Cantonese cuisine. Of all the Chinese regions, Canton (Guangdong province) has the most available food resources. Its proximity to the sea offers a [...]
Living a gluten free life
Posted October 25th, 2009Living a gluten free life has its challenges. You need to make lists of gluten free foods, gluten free diet foods if you’re dieting, you need to be aware of gluten free fast foods, and much more. So how does one cope in a gluten world?
Here are a few tips to help with the Celiac [...]
Benefits and uses of microwave owen
Posted October 24th, 2009High frequency electromagnetic waves, also called as microwaves are emitted when food is cooked in the microwave oven. These microwaves produce the heat and cook each and every particle of the food.
Microwave oven is a kitchen appliance which saves your cooking time and makes food tastier. Microwave oven consumes very less electricity and is easy [...]
Field Dressing A Wild Boar
Posted October 23rd, 2009After a successful wild boar hunting activity, you will need to field dress the animal. Field dressing is in fact the preliminary slaughter of the wild boar before taking it back home. For accomplishing the task you will need very good knife skills but also a strong stomach but let us face it, you cannot [...]
Microwave cooking tips
Posted October 21st, 2009For cut vegetables make sure pieces are of equal size for equal cooking.
If you are cooking an assortment of vegetables, arrange large or tougher vegetables (carrots, cauliflower, broccoli etc.) toward the outside of the plate and small or tender ones (peas, mushrooms, capsicum etc.) in the center so they finish cooking at the same time.
Never [...]
Healthy cooking tips
Posted October 20th, 2009Good nutrition is not a matter of selecting the “right” foods to eat. It’s also important to prepare these foods in ways that will maintain their nutritional benefits. Careful decisions about cooking techniques can have a profound effect on the nutrient content of the foods they prepare. These cooking strategies and ingredient substitution ideas can [...]