Food & Cooking blogs

Still, there are few things better in life than a hunk of warm, crusty bread slathered with honey or jam. The cost for a single loaf of this bread runs about $1.50. The flour is about 60 cents, the yeast is about a quarter, the beer costs about forty cents, and the other ingredients cost a few cents each. So, for a little more than the cheap bread in the grocery store, you can have a loaf of actual artisan bread.

To protect your heart, your bones, your muscles, and your tastebuds, we scoured takeout menus and supermarket shelves to expose the 20 saltiest foods in America.

Humanity is funny like that, but on the other hand I myself considered doing a Mario tattoo. Here's a nice collection of Super Mario cakes.

Today, we're offering a crash course for novices - a refresher session for more experienced cooks - highlighting 10 essential techniques. Mastering these will ease everyday kitchen chores and help you tackle more advanced recipes.
Breading, Browningi, Folding, Tempering and other techniques with recipes and video illustrations.

Croissanti ingredients
* 2 1/3 cup flour
* 1 Tablespoon active dry yeast (2 packets)
* 6 1/4 Tablespoon (90g) sugar
* 1 Tablespoon salt
* 1 1/4 Cup (300mL) warm milk
* 12 Tablespoon (340g) butter, room temperature
* 1 egg, beaten with 2 Tbsp water
* some extra flour

Other things you'll need
* Yeasti
* Rolling pin
* Plastic wrap
* Knife
* Baking trayi
* Electric mixer
* Bowl
* Tea toweli
* Plastic bag
* Brush

And, of course, this manual with step-by-step pictures and comments.

Summer time, picnic time. Don't waste your time on kitchen preparing those meals, use these simple tips to prepare your picnic dishes in 20 minute. Relaxi and enjoy!

To clean a crusty cookware, fill dish or pot with warm water near to the top then drop in one or two denture tablets. Allow to fizz and soak for at least an hour before cleaning.

For aluminum cookware boil 3 tbs cream of tartar per 1 quart of water in the cookware and boil for 15 minutes. Allow to cool then scrub clean.

Read more about cleaning roasting pans, casserole dishes, copper cookware and others.

Cool and crisp choices for a marvelous meal.

Blueberries, in season now, get a lot of press for nutrition (antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, fiber), but we're going to spotlight their wonderful flavor and versatility. Sprinkled over cereal, added to pancakes, tossed into salads or turned into salsas, cold soups or dessert, they're one of summer's delights.

It’s getting to be unbearably hot in many areas of the country, and frozen treats are a healthy way to cool off. Searching for inexpensive alternatives to feed myself, I found six surprisingly easy ways to stock my freezer. Frozen fruit & yogurt bars, pudding pops, popsicles - is there anything better for hot summer time?

Elise shares things she learned from her mother about cooking. It's never too late to learn something new and tested from Mom, who can talk for hours, in an informed and intelligent way, about why fat is good for you, the best way to make jam, how to tell when a steak is done, how there is no one-size-fits-all diet for anybody, etc. etc.

How to Cook Like Your Grandmother is a return to recipes and techniques that are based on what tastes good, not on junk science and fad diets. You can buy a book or just try few of delicious recipes posted in the blog.

It's hard to shake a bad reputation of pork rinds, alcohol, beef jerky, sour cream, coconut and chocolate bar. But some vilified foods have been unjustly convicted. These six snacks and drinks deserve an immediate pardon.

Pan too cold, overcooked meat, using cheap wine - these errors are the most common in cooking. All of us made some of these errors once. If you did, read about them and few others. If you did not - wow, you're a great cook! Send us your advices :)