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Holiday Ham: Tips for Choosing by: Linda Schnable The holiday ham is the traditional centerpiece for Easter, Christmas, and other holiday gatherings. Almost any special meal warrants a holiday ham. Many options are available in choosing a holiday ham and in the quest to make the choice your holiday ham centerpiece a success. You can [...]
4 Problems You Can Cure With Food by: Alicia Caldelas Here are 4 problems that you can cure with food (but, not by eating it). 1) Disinfect a Wound Pour a dab of honey on a cut before covering it with a bandage. Honey has powerful anti-bacterial properties. One New Zealand study found that honey [...]
Making Incredible Sauces at Home by: Reluctant Gourmet My 5 Step Method for Preparing Professional Quality Brown Sauces As a home cook, one of the hardest things for me to accomplish when first starting out was making a rich velvety brown sauce to serve on steak, lamb, veal, pork, or even chicken. I could put [...]
Helen’s Rustic Mash Potato Recipe by: Helen Porter This is a Rustic Mash Potato – makes enough for 4 dinner portions. Take 6 large baked potatos Scrub and wash well Take a baking tray and rub lightly with butter and then put a light dusting of cracked sea salt over the whole tray Roll the [...]
Flavored Coffee Beans & Coffee Flavoring Syrups by: Shona Lynch Many a coffee aficionado would turn up their nose at the thought of adding flavorings to their beloved black beverage. But, if you’re not an aficionado, and you didn’t pay exorbitant amounts of money for single-estate specialty coffee beans, then why not indulge in trying [...]
Spinach Salad with Strawberries by: Armen Hareyan This Spinach Salad may be prepared before the serving, but the dressing for this Spinach Salad with Strawberries may be prepared few hours before serving. Take a large salad bowl and sprinkle sesame seeds of spinach in the bowl. Add some strawberries to the salad. After you have [...]
Dog Stew by: Jon Dunkerley Food is a substance that holds cultures together. Common foods unify and define countries and regions. However, a food that one group considers a delicacy, another group may find offensive. The French have long been called “frogs” because of their taste for the amphibians. The English once were sneered upon [...]
Why Culinary Education by: Emma White If you are thinking about a career in culinary arts then studying in a culinary school is a must. You may be a great cook but you will never become expert learning culinary arts yourself. Farther taking up a job as a chef in a good restaurant demands a [...]
How To Create a Toast by: Tim Virnig Chances are you will run into an occasion in life which requires you to give a toast. Perhaps the event is a wedding, or a birthday party, or an event recognizing some achievement. With more formal events, a more formal toast is appropriate, and unless you’re a [...]
An Eight Hot Dog Nirvana… by: Ed Williams One of the most enjoyable things about our culture is our fascination with records. Just about everyone can tell you that Henry Aaron hit 755 home runs, or that Wilt Chamberlain once scored 100 points in a pro basketball game. We all love records, but sometimes the [...]