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Cooking Basics

Cooking Basics:Coating A Cake Pan With Cocoa

June 15, 2010

I love to bake cakes and I have made many of them over the years. In the directions for most cakes, it calls for you to oil and flour the cake pan. The main reason for this is to help the cake release from the pan. This works great and I recommend that you do this step. [...]

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Cooking Basics: Tips for Successful Baking

June 8, 2010

I have found that many people find baking to be intimidating. Even those that love to cook, often stay away from making baked goods like cakes, cookies, and breads. Baking really is not hard, but baking is more of a science. There are reasons that things are done in baking. I love to bake. In [...]

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How To Separate An Egg

May 11, 2010

I know that many of you know how to cook, but I also know many of you are new to cooking. I hope this series on Cooking Basics is something that all of you will enjoy. My goal is to show those of you that are new to cooking, that it is really not that [...]

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Cooking Dried Beans In the Crockpot

April 26, 2010

I mentioned earlier this year that I was planning on doing a series on kitchen terms and definitions. Well, I decided to call the series Cooking Basics. This way I can cover basics terms and definitions, but also some basic cooking how to’s. Today I thought I would start with cooking dried beans. Whenever I [...]