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.
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