When cooking your favorite meals, you want to ensure you are using the freshest, tastiest ingredients. You never want to eat a meal that is missing a key ingredient or has expired.
In this section, you can find a range of cooking tips to help you prepare your meals. Whether you are checking for expired jelly or freezing leftover pizza, you can find the tips you need for a successful meal here.
I’ll share the experiences and techniques I’ve gained in my long career as a chef.
To eat or not to eat? That is the question. But these are not the only questions that arise in cooking. I will try to answer the most tricky ones.
There are many guides that make it easier to cook your food and maintain your appliances. My guides range from freezing and reheating fried fish to what materials can go in the oven.
Cleaning up is a big part of the cooking experience. After all, you want to ensure your cookware is ready for the next time.
While cleaning your cookware is not a fun task, I have decided to make it easier by sharing a few tips on how to clean your kitchen essentials. Whether you are cleaning a messy grill or melted fabric, you can find everything you need here.
I hope my guides are helpful in creating a positive kitchen experience.
You may have read my posts about putting mushrooms in a dehydrator. However, my dehydrator has decided to knock itself off the kitchen counter, or maybe I accidentally knocked it off the counter while reorganizing. While I have a friend who can repair my dehydrator, I am left without a way to dry my mushrooms. … Read more
Did you know that if you crowd the mushrooms in the pan, they won’t brown up properly? This is one of the many interesting facts that I learned about these tasty morsels during many periods of trial and error. When you prepare mushrooms as often as I do, you may notice that they’ll sometimes smell … Read more
One of my favorite meals is stuffed mushrooms, especially baby bella mushrooms which are stuffed with herb breadcrumbs and cheese. It is not uncommon for me to make more food than necessary, so I wanted to find a good way to reheat my stuffed mushrooms. I actually found seven ideas while researching how to reheat … Read more
Stuffed mushrooms make excellent appetizers — they’re usually on offer at my parties. But they can anchor a meal just as easily, as long as you know what to serve with them. Since mushrooms pair well with a variety of flavors, it can be hard to narrow down your options. I’ve found that it helps … Read more
I have recently discovered that I like mushrooms. It was an unexpected discovery for a picky eater like me, and I have been researching ways to preserve my mushrooms to add to meals. Recently, I learned that drying your mushrooms is a great way to preserve them. This means I needed to do a search … Read more
My dearest aunt Elise (she is French) used to make this cake for me every time I visited her in Lyon. She called it Gâteau d’Hélène. Basically, it's an American recipe for a layer coconut cake that my aunt decided to rename and make it a French one. Ever since then, Gâteau d’Hélène is … Read more
I love using a good wok to cook my meals, but I have noticed one of my woks is worn out. In fact, the Teflon coating is peeling off the surface, which is not ideal for cooking. By the way, Teflon coating is also known as a non-stick coating. I do not want any of … Read more
Seasoning is the key to a properly functioning wok. I knew that even before I became serious about cooking. Though woks have been around for about 2,000 years, historians aren’t clear on why they were invented. One thing is for sure, though — they allow you to cook an entire meal in a single pan, … Read more
Did you know that you should use a certain kind of wok on a glass top stove? Neither did I — until I became the proud owner of both kitchen items. Since I was a novice, I decided to rely on information from forums and websites in order to further my education. In the end, … Read more
A few months ago, I decided to add a wok to my kitchen. I love it because the round bottom and high walls allow me to cook my food evenly and in less amount of time. The best part is that I can cook just about anything in this cookware, from vegetables to pork. I … Read more