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Entries from April 2008

How To Use Gourmet Sea Salt In Your Food

April 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Gourmet chefs have known for some time the tremendous value of salt. We’re not talking about ordinary table salt or even kosher salt which both definitely have their place. No, we’re talking about the wide variety of specialized sea salts previously unavailable to the general public. Perhaps it was Iron Chef or any one of […]

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Spice Up Your Life With Herbs And Spices

April 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

The secret to great tasting food is spicing it up and adding your own flavors.To give your food that WOW taste, add additional spices and herbs to your recipe.Spices will change how your food tastes. Here are some simple facts and tips about spices, herbs, condiments and salt and how to use them.Spices are usually […]

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Unique Cooking Tips

April 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

If you like cooking we hope the next tips here will help you make your cooking time more happiness. So here they are :
How to tenderise meat :

Add a pinch of bicarbonate of soda to cooking meat
Use a combination of vinegar and lemaon juice mixed with a marinade and add to meat. Allow to marinate […]

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Char Siu - The Charm Of Chinese Barbecue

April 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Char siu, the other name for Chinese Barbecued pork is in fact Cantonese-style barbecued pork. The primary requirement for cooking up this delicacy is a long stretch of boneless pork mainly taken from the shoulder. Char siu is characteristic in its own type due to its coating of seasonings which makes the meat look dark […]

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Yummy Dishes From The NW Frontier

April 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Tandoori recipes:
The tandoor works on the same principle as the oven. However, it is the only kind of oven that provides complete wrap-around heat. No modern oven has that capability, making the tandoor one of the most scientific and versatile of all cooking apparatus. By controlling the draught and quality of fuel, we are able […]

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Preparing To Cook Outdoors

April 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

There’s a particular skill to cooking on a barbeque and much of the key to doing it well involves thinking about your preparations. You don’t need to be a professional to cook well.
Many of us love to be invited to a barbeque event. Spending an afternoon out in the sunshine, eating nice food, drinking and […]

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Memories Of A Barbeque Disaster

April 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Looking back on a barbeque day that I hosted, I can’t help but think that things didn’t go as well as planned. Recalling my own failures may help you to avoid making the same mistakes.
Asking a few friends to join us seemed like a great idea. The forecast was great for the whole weekend and […]

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Spices As An Every Day Commodity In The Cooking World

April 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

To me cooking is an essential way of life and spices are a commodity in the cooking culture. Spicy sauces are specifically designed by a team of food scientists and nutritionists in order to satisfy the “craving for flavor” that people experience on sodium reduced diets. Spice Sauces are totally GF, as well as fat […]

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How To Poach Eggs

April 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Poaching eggs is a skill that is rapidly disappearing from the kitchens of the world, thanks to those awful patent cookers that produce something with the appearance, and consistency, of a plastic amoeba.
I’m not exaggerating when I say it’s a skill. Poaching an egg in such a way that it retains its shape and texture […]

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Making Your Own Salsa At Home Can Be Quite Rewarding!

April 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Some homemade salsas have been a favorite for years and even generations. Families have been handing down their own special family recipes to successive generations and kept a long tradition of making their own salsa.
It’s easy to go to the nearby corner grocery store and pick up a jar of salsa, but making your own […]

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