Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Basic Cooking tips...


The following fifteen is just a tiny handful of the many basic
cooking tips that you could integrate into your everyday life to save
time and money.

• Bacon: Reduce shrinkage by running cold water over it before frying.

• Beans: Stop gas attacks by adding a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda in a big pot of beans while they are soaking.

• Boiled Eggs: Add some vinegar or a little salt to the boiling
water when boiling eggs. This basic cooking tips will keep the egg in
the shell if it cracks.

• Ripening Fruits and Vegetables: Put your unripe fruit and
vegetables in a brown paper bag and place the bag in a dark cupboard
for few day. Using this basic cooking tips is an excellent way to save
money on fruits and vegetables that has to be ripened.

• Salads: Cut your iceberg lettuce into wedges instead of tearing salad greens to save some time making a salad.

• Spaghetti Sauce: Add a small pinch of bicarbonate of soda to your spaghetti sauce to lower the acid taste from the tomatoes.

• Corn: Place the corn directly into boiling water, and do not add
salt. Do not boil corn for more than three minutes. Overcooking reduces
the taste level.

• Frozen Vegetables: When they are stuck together, simply run boiling water over them.

• Grating Cheese: Freeze for twenty five minutes before grating. It will shred so much easier.

• Pancakes: Use a small amount of sugar in the batter and they will brown more quickly.

• Pie Pastry: Substitute one teaspoon of vinegar for one teaspoon
of the cold water called for in the recipe and the pastry will be much
flakier.

• Quick Sauces: Use condensed cream soups such as cream of
mushroom, cream of chicken, cream of tomato, cream of celery, to make
fast and easy sauces.

• Quick Tenderizer: Use vinegar as a meat tenderizer. Add a
tablespoon to water when boiling meat or ribs for stews. This basic
cooking tips will help tenderizer even the toughest meat.

• Wilted vegetables: Soak wilted veggies in two cups water, one tablespoon vinegar to help bring them back to life.

• Wooden Skewers: Soak all your wooden skewers in cold water for twenty minutes to prevent them from burning.

Inspiration
could be considered to be one of the key ingredients to writing. Only
if one is inspired, can one get to writing on any subject especially
like cooking.

Use some of these basic cooking tips to make your life in the kitchen more enjoyable.

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