Sunday, November 25, 2012

Cooking Tips - 7 Useful Cooking Tips And Hints For Amatuers

Author: Abhishek Agarwal
It's your first day in the kitchen and you have no idea where to start. A haphazard way of doing things will only delay meals and see that you are stuck in the kitchen for a long time! To ensure that you produce quicker and easy-to-prepare meals, as well as please your family's taste buds, a few cooking tips and hints are in order.
(1) First of all, there has to be a place from where you can pick up cooking tips and hints. There are many classes set up for beginners by various local institutions and...

Friday, November 23, 2012

Pizza - Can This Be A Healthy Food?

By Fuentes Roberson
Every component of pizza - crust, toppings, sauce and cheese are thought to be unhealthy. This is no longer the usual case today. Many pizza parlors today offer this delectable food in a new way - the use of organic ingredients only. Thus, every slice of organic pizza becomes healthy food.
Many of us believe that pizza is very unhealthy food because it contains ingredients that can add weight to the consumer. A slice of pizza has many calories, depending on its toppings and crust. This connotation will change if you know how the making of pizza had been modified by many people who advocate the use of healthy and...

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Cooking tips for new cookers

Author: kashif
Cooking Tips, Recipes & Techniques:
  • Grocery Shopping :Try to shop for staples once a month (i.e. canned goods, pastas, rice, etc), while purchasing fresh ingredients as needed (i.e. fruits, meats, vegetables, etc. Plan what meals you want to make for the week in advance. This will help you plan your grocery list better Keep a constant shopping list in your kitchen, jotting down items when you run low.
  • Freezing:To save money on food cost, freeze any ingredients you do not use within 1-2 days. You can microwave to defrost items or...

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Meatloaf for Dinner in Minutes

By Sue Wiskowski-Fair
One-pot meals are the answer after a busy day. But sometimes you don't want all the ingredients to mingle and all the flavors to blend. You can achieve that by layering the foods in the pressure cooker.
Did you know that you can cook one food for a period of time, then release pressure and add another food for an additional period of time, and even a third?
Our up-to-date pressure cookers have a great deal of flexibility and are easy to handle. Safety valves give you comfort to know that nothing is going to explode! The models of pressure cookers built in the 1930's and 40's were not as well designed and...