How to Cook Guilt Free Fish n’ Chips with Lime Mayo + Video
I have a great recipe for How To Cook Guilt-Free Fish & Chips, which is a healthy baked version that satisfies the desire you might have for greasy, fried fish and chips. On this menu is Oven-Baked Whole Grain Crusted Tilapia, with Baked Sweet Potato Steak Fries & a Lime Mayo Dip. For the chips, I use partially peeled sweet potatoes, which are super healthy. The tilapia is a perfect, moist, white fish for breading & baking...
How to Bake Homemade Baklava: National Baklava Day
National Baklava Day can be so much more amazing with this Homemade Baklava. Baklava is made using phyllo sheets, which are paper-thin pastry used in much of the Middle East & Greece. The ingredients for this most delectable pastry are quite simple, using just flour & water, but it takes some skill to mix, knead & stretch this pastry to obtain that almost see-through result. Tips for Using Phyllo Dough: The store bought...
How to Roast Radishes, Scapes, Beets & Parsnips as a Side Dish + Video
Roasting vegetables is likely my favorite way to cook them, and today I’m featuring Roast Radishes, Scapes, Beets & Parsnips. So simple, retains its nutrients, and develops such wonderful flavors as they are cooked in that long, dry heat. If you have the opportunity to purchase scapes at your grocer, and they look lovely, grab ’em up. They have a beautiful garlic flavor, and a lovely shape as well. Scapes grow from the...
November Food Holidays & Events
Here are November Food Holidays & Events. Most of these holidays are based out of the USA, with others sprinkled in here and there. Find other months on The Year in Food Holidays & Events page. Georgia Pecan Month: How to Bake Pecan Pie: Georgia Pecan Month Browse Pecan recipes, Nut shows, Nut recipes Vegan Banana Pecan Muffins How to Bake Rose’s Pecan Cookies Cooking Shows: Nuts Recipes + Reviews Good Nutrition Month:...
How to Roast Sweet Potato Medallions + Video
Roast Medallions of Sweet Potato are on the menu, and they’re ridiculously easy to make. A perfect cold weather side dish with its stick-to-your-bones nature, and homey aroma. Sweet potatoes really develop their flavor as they are roasted or grilled, as their sugars caramelize, but they can take a while to roast off, since they are dense & quite thick. In lieu of getting these sweet potato medallions on the grill, the smoked...
6 Tasty Pizza Ideas for National Pizza Festival Month
October is National Pizza Festival Month, and there are a lot of ways to prepare pizzas. Aside from the usual mushrooms, pepperoni & green pepper choices, here are a few of our favorites using any sized pizza crusts you prefer – either store-bought or homemade pizza crust. I usually use about 8 inch diameter crusts. I make my own tomato pizza sauce, and for the most part, my pizzas are baked at 400 degrees F for 12 –...
Web Chef Review: Drogheria Cyprus Flake Sea Salt
Drogheria Cyprus Flake Sea Salt is a superb salt in flake form. Cyprus, an island country located in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, and it provides us with this unbelievable salt that forms unique pyramidal crystals. This salt, provides a unique crunch & texture when ground on top of foods. Cyprus flake sea salt is a chef’s delight! ~ Kimberly Edwards It’s also a great salt to use free handed without grinding by just...
Web Chef Review: Drogheria Smoked Cyprus Sea Salt
If you’re looking for that “je ne sais quoi” in your kitchen…I’ve found it! It’s Drogheria Smoked Cyprus Sea Salt. I need to calm down on this stuff because I want to eat it on everything. It’s one of the tastiest salts I’ve ever used. The smokey flavor from this high quality Cyprus sea salt isn’t something I’m mad at! #justsayin The beige color tantalizes your brain, as it...
How to Make Spicy Fig & Pistachio Tapenade with Cream Cheese
On so many occasions during the Holidays, you need some fabulous, quick, go-to recipes that can save you from not being prepared when an unexpected guest, and their family, show up at your door step to spread Holiday cheer… …Instead of panic setting in, wondering if you have anything to present to these friends or family to eat & drink that’s lovely…Afterall, you weren’t expecting them. No problem....
Don’t Rinse Your Pasta: How to Cook Pasta
When you’re cooking pasta, don’t rinse it afterward when you drain the water off. Why? If you do, you rinse of the starch that will hold your sauce on the noodle. Plus, you’ll cool down the pasta to a much lower temperature, even if you rinse it in warm water. So, just drain your pasta in a colander or strainer, pour it back into your pan or pot and drizzle olive oil or melt some butter into it until you finish...
Web Chef Review: Manischewitz Matzo Ball & Soup Mix
I have never actually had matzo ball soup before today! It’s a Jewish dish that is traditionally eaten at Passover… My mother had a box Manischewitz Matzo Ball Soup Mix in her cupboard, and being that she’s been under the weather for a while, I thought I’d try my hand at making it for us. The instructions were simple, needing only 2 eggs and 2 tbsp oil to add to the matzo ball mix. You mix it with a fork and...
How to Cook Calamari – Australian Style
What was my very favorite thing I ate when I was in Australia? If I was pinned down to have to answer this, I would say it was the calamari! I’d never had calamari any differently than the breaded and fried version, as you would get at Olive Garden here in America. They don’t make it like this in Aussieland, unless you go to a fish & chips shop…No, No, No! Otherwise, they’ll skin the squid and take out...
Casbah Tabouli – Garden Wheat Salad Mix – Product Review
Do you like Tabouli (Tabbouleh)? If you’ve never tried it, you must! If you like it already, and either don’t know how to make it or don’t feel like it, then try this awesome mix for it! Casbah Brand Tabouli – Garden Wheat Salad Mix is a fantastic product! We love this in our household and make it often. It has more bulgur (wheat) in it than the typical tabbouleh salad you would get at a Mediterranean...
Trending Now
-
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...
