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)

Write Down Your Specialty Recipes

Everyone has a few things that they are especially good at cooking. Even if you don’t know a lot about cooking, chances are there are still some things that you make really well such as salads and sandwiches. Most people just make their specialty without thinking about what truly goes into it. They don’t write it down.

Writing down all of your specialty recipes is a great way to keep track of all the recipes you wrote that you like. You can even keep track of the bad recipes. Documenting what you did could help your figure out what went wrong. Also, if you have things written down, when people say that they want the recipe, you don’t need to scramble to find it or write it down at the last minute. It can also help you when mealtime comes.  Read more... (155 words, estimated 37 secs reading time)

So, you think recipes are confusing?

Do you avoid cooking anything complicated because you don’t understand how to follow recipes? Maybe the problem isn’t with you. Maybe the recipe simply is not written well. How many times have you tried to follow your aunt’s recipe for apple pie, only to get stuck at the crust?

The problem is, most people do not know how to write recipes so that they are clear and easy to understand. If you are new at cooking, try to follow recipes written by professionals. After you get confident in your cooking skills, then you can tackle your mom’s meatloaf recipe.  Read more... (148 words, estimated 36 secs reading time)

Tips for Finding New Recipes

So, what’s for dinner? Do you know? Sometimes it’s fun to shake things up a bit. If you find yourself cooking the same things all the time, it could be that you need to try something new, you just don’t realize it. But just as you may be in a rut with the things you could be cooking, you may be looking in the same places to find your recipes. Is your favourite cookbook getting a little stale? Try searching online instead. There are plenty of food oriented websites. Or, if you want to try cooking in a different cuisine, do a search for that cuisine. For example, if you want to find easy Thai food recipes, type in the search phrase “easy Thai food recipes” and you should be directed to a website that will help you out. This is a good way to shake things up.