How to Cook Onions with Their Skins On
Cooking Tip: When making chicken broth, aside from roasting the pieces of chicken and vegetables, there’s another trick that is often used in some cuisines… Many Jewish kitchens will use onions complete with their skins on to make a tasty broth with a darker color. I tried this earlier this week and it turned out wonderfully! I told my mother about it and she figured I just knew that…LOL Of course, when making a...
How to Cook Caramelized Onions
Caramelizing onions is a skill that’s so very important in the kitchen and in various cuisines. Almost anytime I cook Ukrainian, German or Italian food, I am most definitely either sautéing or caramelizing onions. In order to caramelize onions, they must brown further than simply sautéing them (on low and slowly in the pan). Tonight we are pan frying up some cheese & potato perogies, and some sauerkraut perogies (or pyrohy)....
How Do You Keep Green Onions Fresh in the Fridge? + Video
Here’s some good tips on how to keep your Green Onions Fresh in the Fridge, until you’re ready to use them! Say you need to leave town unexpectedly for 1 week or so, and just went to the grocery store and bought a ton of fresh veggies, like green onions and celery, etc… Ugh…That figures, right? Maybe you found a great deal on these vegetables, or your kitchen garden has done well & given you a huge...
How To Peel Small Onions Quickly & Easily
Whether they are small white onions, pearl onions, small red onions, shallots or any other type of small onion…and you need to peel a lot of them at one time…here’s the trick! Boil a pot of water large enough to accommodate the amount of onions you are needing to peel. Once the water in the pot is boiling, put the onions in and boil for 1 min. Then, strain them in a colander or fish them out with a hand-held...
How to Cook Down-South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy + Video
If you love #liver – then, you’ll love my Down-South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy recipe! Okay, I really really disliked liver and onions when I was a kid. Uhhhhh. The reason why? Well, apart from the fact that my parents told me it was beaver tail (uh, yeah, true story), but it tasted so disgustingly nasty to me. I still have a liver block to this day. However, my mother and sister are liver freaks! Well, I...
May Food Holidays & Events
Here are May Food Holidays & Events. Most of these holidays are based out of the USA, with others sprinkled in here & there. Find other months on The Year in Food Holidays & Events page. Month Holidays: National Asparagus Month: Browse Asparagus shows, Asparagus recipes Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus Oven-Baked Asparagus with Blood Orange Grilled Lemon Zest Asparagus with Verjus Playlist: Asparagus Recipes + Reviews National...
Baked Macaroni with Tomato Sauce, Chorizo & Green Pepper + Video
Craving pasta? Try my Baked Macaroni with Tomato Sauce, Chorizo & Green Pepper! Follow step-by-step & cook your way to a delicious dinner for the family, with leftovers to spare. This pasta dish is filled with tasty ingredients like chorizo, mushrooms & green peppers, and with an easy tomato sauce that brings it all together, you’ll be the hero in the kitchen tonight. Baked Macaroni with Tomato Sauce, Chorizo &...
Our Top 50 Cooking Shows of the Past 10 Years
We are sharing with you our Top 50 Cooking Shows of the Past 10 Years! Yup! Can you believe we have been on YouTube for 10 years?! How the time flies. Starting from a crappy webcam that filmed in shades of yellow, filming with an old camera phone, and then on to better clarity with newer cameras, our shows have evolved, to say the least. The way people cook & food philosophies have changed a great deal over the past decade, n many...
Our Top 25 Recipes of 2018
Here’s a great list of Our Top 25 Recipes of 2018 – made popular by YOU! 2018 was a serious year for all things food, and this list goes to show just what you were all searching for, eating & loving. Let’s make 2019 just as tasty! Tip: Click on the title of each recipe to go to the blog post with the recipe, and often including a video. Top 25 Recipes of 2018: 1. Down South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy...
Our Top 25 Cooking Shows of 2018
Here is a list of our Top 25 Cooking Shows of 2018 – basically, what you all made the most popular! 2018 was a great year, not just in life, but in the world of food too. We were blessed with a baby girl, in May of this past year, and she is a miracle. Plus, we enjoyed many a feast too! Tip: Click on the title of each recipe to go to the blog post with the video, and often including a recipe. Top 25 Cooking Shows of 2018: 1. How...
How to Bake Veggie Rubbed Plantains + Video
Spice up your meal – Bake Veggie Rubbed Plantains as a side dish! These tasty, little plantain tidbits have it all – they are sweet, savory, crispy on the outside, soft on the inside! Plus, they have that bit of tropical flair you are craving. Plantains coated with a veggie spice rub & bread crumbs, baked in the oven to perfection? Yes, please! How to Bake Veggie Rubbed Plantains: For this recipe, I’m using...
How to Cook Shrimp & Squid Cajun Seafood Gumbo + Video
Shrimp & Squid Cajun Seafood Gumbo is definitely a food-of-love worth the time & effort it takes to create! This unique combination of flavors out of the deep south will tantalize your taste buds & warm your heart. Cook up this stew for New Year’s, Mardi Gras, or anytime you need a fix that reminds you of the taste of Southern hospitality, the moss dancing in the breeze on giant magnolia trees, and that bayou sound....
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How to Cook Down-South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy + Video
August 9, 2007| 5 CommentsIf you love #liver - then, you'll love my Down-South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy recipe! Okay, I really... -
How to Brine a Whole Chicken + Video
April 30, 2012| 3 CommentsThe most effective, easiest and inexpensive way to impart flavor into your whole bird (albeit a chicken, duck, turkey, hen)... -
How to Scald Milk for Baking + Video
October 14, 2010| 9 CommentsDon't worry...Many people don't know what it means to Scald Milk for Baking! In fact, it's somewhat of an outdated... -
How to Make a Saltine Cracker Pie Crust
November 25, 2008| 1 CommentLooking for a great alternative to a shortening-enriched, pastry crust? Here's your answer! Great for fruit pies and tarts, meringues... -
How To Peel Small Onions Quickly & Easily
June 9, 2008| 3 CommentsWhether they are small white onions, pearl onions, small red onions, shallots or any other type of small onion...and you... -
How to Slow Roast Chicken with the Best Skin Ever + Video
April 1, 2008| 8 CommentsI discovered this amazing trick unintentionally... When we were in university, there were times I would use my slow cooker,... -
How to Marinate Sirloin Tip Steak + Video
July 24, 2012Tonight, I have decided to BBQ some sirloin tip steaks that looked beautiful from my grocer. It is a marinating...
