Showing posts with label cooking tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking tips. Show all posts

April 18, 2012

10 Useful kitchen tips & tricks

I was recently going through my notebooks of tips and tricks in the kitchen I wrote through the years to refresh my memories and I puled out 10 useful kitchen tips you can use to make your life easier. This time it involved foods  and how to handle it better.

So here they are, I hope they are useful to you as they are to me. The are randomly selected but i am sure you can find at least one you can use next time you are cooking.

10 Useful kitchen tips & tricks:

1. Preserving ground coffee
Ground coffee looses its flavor if you keep it in the pantry. Put it in a box in the fridge and the flavor will last longer.

2. Green avocado
If you bought avocado fruits that are not fully riped, put them in a black bag....CONTINUE READING

April 4, 2012

How to properly cook eggs

Eggs are one of the most versatile foods around, they can be cooked in many ways and used in numerous recipes, from quiches and caseroles to salads and deserts. Eggs are cheap, available year-round and low in calories and if you used just the egg white, low in cholesterol as well.

It is important to know how to properly cook eggs not just for your own health but for the success of the recipe you're cooking. Besides, it makes your life easier in the kitchen, so here we go:

1. boiled eggs
The secret to make the perfect boiled eggs is to take the eggs out of the fridge, have them at the room temperature and immerse them in boiling water. If you place the eggs in cold water.... CONTINUE READING