Kitchen Basics: Utensils
There are a number of tools you’ll need to mix, stir, flip, turn and move around food, both while cooking and before.
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Are You Holding Your Knife Correctly?
Whether you buy a knife set or individual knives, take time to examine what you intend to buy.
Kitchen Basics: Measuring tools
The thing to remember is there are three kinds of measurements for food ingredients in the home kitchen: weight, dry volume and liquid volume.
Cooking Fresh Fish
There’s no reason to have faux fish patties or sticks or funny-shaped fillets. You’ll find many options in the frozen seafood section of your grocery store.
The Secret to Secret Sauce
The easiest to start with is good ol’ fashioned Thousand Island. Chances are, you already have all the ingredients you need right in your fridge.
Plan and Prep To Easy Meal Planning
If you do it right, you can do most, if not all, of your week’s food prep in about an hour each week.
Recipe: Italian Sausage and Lentil Soup
Compared to the amount of soup created, the sausage turns out to be more of a flavoring and mostly disappears into the soup. This is low in fat, high in fiber and protein.
Pantry Basics: Spices
In looking in my cupboard, I picked out four spices I felt I could not do without. Those will make up my pantry basics must have list.
Basic Pots & Pans
With care, the cast iron skillet will last for generations. It can be used for baking as well as frying.
Foods To Make You Feel Better
It’s hard not to feel like a failure when you look over the battlefield damage of empty cartons, dirty plates and pants that fit too tight.
