Tuesday, November 15, 2016

So You Think You Can Cook? Taste These Tips!

So You Think You Can Cook? Taste These Tips! -
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Just about everyone can cook. Can you grab a recipe, buy the ingredients at the store, then mix them up? Do you have the basic equipment for cooking? If so, cooking is clearly within your realm of capabilities! If you want to learn how to enhance your culinary abilities, look at these tips to find advice on how to prepare great meals.


TIP! You should do the prep work for your meals in advance. Before you start making your food, it is a good thing to have everything prepared.

You can start cooking simple meals out of a cookbook you can borrow from the library. That way you can try different meals that you can prepare and when you are done you can take it back. Experiment with a few, and be patient; remember, you’re learning new skills.


A good cooking tip when you use oil is to put it on the sides of the pan so it gets real hot by the time it hits the food. Using this technique ensures that your food will have more flavor.


TIP! Test a small sample of your seasoned meats prior to cooking the full dish. Many meaty foods require careful seasoning.

If you’re making a recipe with seasoned meat, sample a small piece of the meat before cooking the rest of it. A lot of dishes require you to season the meat with care. Avoid cooking the entire batch immediately after seasoning the meat. A better way is to form a patty with a little bit of meat, then cook it. Once you see how it tastes, you can determine to either cook the remaining meat or adjust the amount of seasoning.


If you wish to have crispy French fries, then you should soak the potatoes in cool water for 30 minutes and then fry them. The fibers of raw cut potatoes that have been soaked in cold water prior to hitting the deep fryer, are stronger and can handle the heat better without breakage.


Fresh Basil


Are you planning to use freshly picked basil in a recipe? Try placing clumps of fresh basil into a clear, glass container. With water you then want to cover the stems. You can put it on the kitchen counter and keep it for weeks. Most often times, basil will actually take root in water. Plant the fresh basil in a small pot with rich soil to have fresh basil available at all times.


TIP! Try adding cauliflower to your mashed potatoes to lower the fat content. Cauliflower has little taste of its own, so it will blend right into your potatoes and pick up flavors from whatever other ingredients you use.

You can make a lot of preparations when you are cooking to make it easy and fast. Look at your recipes before starting and clue in on the steps that can be done ahead of time without having any spoilage issues. Much of the preparation can be done the day before it is needed. In this manner, even complicated recipes become simple and easy meals.


By doing so, the mushrooms will absorb the water like a sponge. Instead, you want to wet a clean cloth and use that to wipe the mushroom off.


TIP! Fresh ingredients are always preferable to dried or frozen ones in all of your recipes. You will save plenty of money by buying fresh vegetables and other ingredients, and your food will also taste more flavorful.

Cooking is a skill, hobby and vocation. The only limit to what you can make is your imagination, but you need to learn some of the principles of good cooking from the masters in order to make your perfect dish a reality. In the meantime, however, you can use some of the cooking tips presented above the next time you are responsible for preparing a family meal.


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Just about everyone can cook. Can you grab a recipe, buy the ingredients at the store, then mix them up? Do you have the basic equipment for cooking? If so, cooking is clearly within your realm of capabilities! If you want to learn how to enhance your culinary abilities, look at these tips to find advice on how to prepare great meals.

TIP! You should do the prep work for your meals in advance. Before you start making your food, it is a good thing to have everything prepared.


You can start cooking simple meals out of a cookbook you can borrow from the library. That way you can try different meals that you can prepare and when you are done you can take it back. Experiment with a few, and be patient; remember, you"re learning new skills.

A good cooking tip when you use oil is to put it on the sides of the pan so it gets real hot by the time it hits the food. Using this technique ensures that your food will have more flavor.

TIP! Test a small sample of your seasoned meats prior to cooking the full dish. Many meaty foods require careful seasoning.


If you"re making a recipe with seasoned meat, sample a small piece of the meat before cooking the rest of it. A lot of dishes require you to season the meat with care. Avoid cooking the entire batch immediately after seasoning the meat. A better way is to form a patty with a little bit of meat, then cook it. Once you see how it tastes, you can determine to either cook the remaining meat or adjust the amount of seasoning.

If you wish to have crispy French fries, then you should soak the potatoes in cool water for 30 minutes and then fry them. The fibers of raw cut potatoes that have been soaked in cold water prior to hitting the deep fryer, are stronger and can handle the heat better without breakage.

Fresh Basil



Are you planning to use freshly picked basil in a recipe? Try placing clumps of fresh basil into a clear, glass container. With water you then want to cover the stems. You can put it on the kitchen counter and keep it for weeks. Most often times, basil will actually take root in water. Plant the fresh basil in a small pot with rich soil to have fresh basil available at all times.

TIP! Try adding cauliflower to your mashed potatoes to lower the fat content. Cauliflower has little taste of its own, so it will blend right into your potatoes and pick up flavors from whatever other ingredients you use.


You can make a lot of preparations when you are cooking to make it easy and fast. Look at your recipes before starting and clue in on the steps that can be done ahead of time without having any spoilage issues. Much of the preparation can be done the day before it is needed. In this manner, even complicated recipes become simple and easy meals.

By doing so, the mushrooms will absorb the water like a sponge. Instead, you want to wet a clean cloth and use that to wipe the mushroom off.

TIP! Fresh ingredients are always preferable to dried or frozen ones in all of your recipes. You will save plenty of money by buying fresh vegetables and other ingredients, and your food will also taste more flavorful.


Cooking is a skill, hobby and vocation. The only limit to what you can make is your imagination, but you need to learn some of the principles of good cooking from the masters in order to make your perfect dish a reality. In the meantime, however, you can use some of the cooking tips presented above the next time you are responsible for preparing a family meal. - Inserts the body(text) of the post as typed, fresh basil - Inserts post tags, Cooking (Tips) - Inserts post categories, #FreshBasil - Inserts post tags as hashtags, #Cooking(Tips) - Inserts post categories as hashtags, gprince2@windstream.net - Inserts the author"s name, My Food and Cooking Blog - Inserts the the Blog/Site name.

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