Kitchen Tips

Five Simple Ways To Save Time In The Kitchen

January 4, 2011

Today I am excited to be teaming up with a group of blogging friends on a Five Simple Ways project. We are all sharing five simple tips covering different areas of your home and life. I am sharing with you five simple ways you can save time in the kitchen. We all spend a lot [...]

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Tips For Making Cheesecake

December 8, 2010

I love cheesecake. It is one of my favorite dessert to make and also eat. The first time I made a cheesecake was over fifteen years ago when I was first married. When I got married I owned two cookbooks, both of which were Taste of Home cookbooks that are no longer published. In one of [...]

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Adjusting Homemade Brownies For High Altitude

November 20, 2010

This week I received a comment from one of my readers about my homemade brownie mix. She loved the flavor of the brownies, but was having trouble getting the right texture. She lives at a high altitude and thought that might be the prombelm and she asked if I knew of any tips that might help. Although [...]

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Spraying Aluminum Foil With Oil

October 26, 2010

Have you ever placed aluminum foil over a pan of lasagna or enchiladas only to have all the cheese stick to the foil while it was cooking? I know I have, but I discovered an easy tip a few years ago that keeps this from happening or at least from sticking as bad as it [...]

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No Roll Enchiladas

October 25, 2010

I posted a tip over on my allergy site for easy no roll enchiladas. My family loves enchiladas, but does not really like enchilada pies where you layer the ingredients, so these no roll enchiladas are what I came up with. These work great when working with corn tortillas, so this is a tip many [...]

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How Much Fresh Spinach Equals A Cup Of Cooked Spinach?

October 5, 2010

Have you ever needed cooked spinach for a recipe and you did not know the right amount of fresh spinach to cook down? Yes, you can use frozen spinach and I have, but often times all I have is fresh spinach. Besides that fresh spinach is fresh. I like it better and think the flavor [...]

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Kitchen Tip: A Watched Crockpot Does Not Cook

September 16, 2010

We have all heard the saying that a watched pot never boils, but did you know that they same thing can be said about a crockpot? A watched crockpot does not cook the same. Every time you open the lid of a Crockpot you add about fifteen minutes onto your cooking time. Yes, taking off the lid [...]

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Kitchen Basics: How To Cook Pasta

September 9, 2010

Cooking pasta is a very basic cooking skill. In fact it is probably one of the first things that many of us learned to cook, but it is something that many people do not cook right. There is one simple thing that you can do that will vastly improve the results of your pasta. Any guess what [...]

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Kitchen Tip: Is There a Right or Wrong Side On Aluminum Foil?

August 25, 2010

Have you ever looked at aluminum foil and wondered why one side is shiny and one side is not? Have you looked at it and asked yourself if you should put the shiny side up or down? Well it does not matter. There is no right or wrong side to aluminium foil. The variation is [...]