Cooking Tips for Healthy Lunches

Let’s face it, cooking is not a top priority in the lives of every man, woman, or child on the planet. In fact, far too people have not made learning to cook a priority in their lives. This means that we often exist on convenience foods and boxed mixes rather than taking the effort to prepare healthy meals for our families and our own personal enjoyment.  Read more... (584 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Hold on to Your Cooking Tips

What do you do with all of those great cooking tips you find? Most of us read them and forget about them. But, a lot of these tips can help you save time and money in the kitchen. Tips such as how to crush garlic, preventing lemon seeds from getting in your food, and what to do with stale bread can help take your cooking to the next level.
To keep track, simply add a section to your recipe filing system. If you store your recipes on your computer, make a new database category or a new folder for the tips. If you use the traditional recipe file box, start a category for tips and put one tip per index card. If you use a binder, start a section for tips and write them on sheets of notebook paper. Pretty soon, these tips will be second nature but until then, you can consult your files for inspiration.

Do Recipes Make a Great Gift?

Yes! Homemade gifts are all the rage lately. Most people already have what they need, and gift certificates just aren’t personalized enough. A great gift idea is to create a recipe book or file box filled with recipes to give away as gifts. Do you have an apple pie or pasta salad recipe that people just love? Then include it in the recipe collection.

In order to make this gift worthwhile, there needs to be at least twenty recipes. That may sound like a lot but keep in mind that you can include soups, salads, desserts, main dishes, and anything else that comes to mind. You will probably have even more.  Read more... (156 words, estimated 37 secs reading time)