Easy Ways To Improve Your Cooking Skills / Cooking Tips / By Bary Smith No ratings yet. No ratings yet. Eating is a requirement, but cooking is not. Consider the following tips the next time you enter the kitchen. Don’t be afraid to try your hand at it. Your kitchen won’t hurt you! If a recipe fails, throw it out and try again! Preparing tasty meals is something that anyone can do, and it’s fun too! Have fun with these tips and don’t fear making a mess in your kitchen sometimes. You can change the flavors of the food you cook by changing up the spice blends that you are using. By adding Different herbs, spices and marinades, you can change a tried-and-true recipe into something new and exciting. Try a foreign food store to find interesting spices or sauces to use. If you have every considered cooking with skewers, you should keep a few things in mind. Try to buy twisted or other shaped skewers when they are metal, the food will stay on. Cutting Board It is important to properly care for your wood cutting board if you want it to last a long time. Your cutting board can split or warp if it is exposed to excessive moisture, heat, or extreme dryness. A wooden cutting board will be ruined if it is placed into water. Restore damaged boards by applying oil to it regularly, and be sure to use products specially designed for wood chopping boards. Store in a cool dry place until the product has completely dried. Stir-frying your rice is a great way to make use of surplus vegetables and meat in the fridge that you can’t use in other recipes. If you use fresh rice, prepare it with less water than usual so that it comes out dry. Day-old rice from the refrigerator is ideal. Saute the vegetables and meats in some oil, then place the rice in the pan and add soy sauce and other spices to taste. When cooking vegetables, try cooking them in chicken broth. Not only will chicken broth help to keep vegetables from getting stuck to the pan, but they will add some nice flavors to the dish. Chicken broth costs very little, and can be bought at most any grocery store. TIP! Try mixing some flavors into your butter for a bit more complexity with familiar food items like corn and dinner rolls. You can soften the butter either by letting it sit at room temperature, or by using your microwave. If you make sauce, freeze it into ice cubs to use later on. All you need to do next time you want to use it, is reheat in a saucepan. Freezing the sauce into cubes in the trays is safe and convenient! When using fresh herbs in your meal, including dill and parsley, place the herbs together in bunches, and cut them with scissors. By using this technique you can chop many herbs in a short amount of time, and they will be much lighter and fluffier, without the wetness that you get when using a knife. Use a baking potato with thick skin to get a good, firm shell when making potato skins or twice baked potatoes. Thin skinned potatoes such as red potatoes are unable to hold most fillings. Make your own dried tomatoes. Drying them is easy – simply cut Roma tomatoes in half, or cut larger tomatoes into 1/2 inch slices. Place the resulting tomato pieces on a rack, then salt their exposed flesh lightly. After placing the rack atop a cookie sheet, allow the tomatoes to dry for 10 hours in an oven at 190 degrees. Put the tomatoes in plastic bags, and store them in the freezer. You can also store them in jars packed with herbs and olive oil. Refrigerate and use within 2 weeks. TIP! You have probably felt guilty for pitching moldy fruits before. Do not cut the rotten part and eat the rest. As a good option, set the timer on your watch in addition to the over timer. That will let you move on to other projects on the house while assuring that you’ll hear the timer go off wherever you are. Store spices and herbs in cool and dark areas so their freshness and flavors are preserved. Warmer areas will cause your spices to lose flavor. It’s important to keep breakfast foods like waffles and pancakes heated until you are ready to serve them. You can do this by heating your oven up to 300 degrees. While you are cooking, put what is already finished on an oven-safe plate, and stick them in oven to stay warm. For stress-free cooking, you should prepare all necessary ingredients before you begin. This way, you will never find yourself halfway through a recipe and without something you need. While not saving any real time by pulling out the ingredients early, you’ll definitely save yourself some aggravation along the way with this preplanning. TIP! If you are cooking up dried beans, don’t add garlic or salt until the beans are soft. Both garlic and salt can keep your beans from softening while they cook, particularly with old beans. Always bake pie and tart crusts for longer than the recipe specifies for best results. They should be a light golden brown instead of pale in color. The color on your pie signifies that the caramelizing process is complete in your crust, yielding a scrumptious dessert. Cooking is not the boogeyman. Creating a meal from scratch is fun, healthy, financially beneficial and very satisfying. Apply what you learned from this article at the grocery store, in your kitchen and also on your plate. Cheers to home-style cooking and enjoy the delicious food you have learned how to prepare! Please rate this Please Rate Winnellie Supermarket Post navigation ← Previous PostNext Post →
