Entries tagged with 'tips'
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Perfect for settling household disputes (and preventing foodborne illness, of course), ABC's guide to spoiled food goes in-depth on proper food temperature, changing your doggie bag habits, and just how seriously to take mold....
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A nice post on Martha Stewart's Dinner Tonight blog detailing ways to save money on food: plan ahead, stay in season, build a pantry, love your freezer....
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The blog Sweeetheart Fever posts about a novel way to cook eggs: bake them in muffin tins. If it weren't so hot out, I'd try it this week. I can imagine plunking one of this muffin-tin eggs on an English muffin with some good, sharp cheddar. Mmm....
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This past week the New York Times had an interesting interview with a local Ohio grocer who offered his tips on buying high-quality food on the cheap. His tips tended toward the obvious, the silly, and the self-serving: Buying prewashed and premade food because we'll waste less doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me. But in these days of shrinking buying power, rapidly rising food prices, and economic insecurity, which we've all felt in one way or another, it does make sense for all of us to think about saving money while eating right and doing right. I write this knowing full well that absolute costs of food are pretty difficult to figure out, but we've...
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Always keep your bowl frozen, chill your ice cream "batter," don't overfill your machine. These tips and more, for anyone looking to make ice cream to cool off with this summer.
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If you feel like you're in a cheese rut, here are five easy upgrades that will get you going again. With tips for cheddar, Swiss, provolone, gouda, and chèvre.
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Supermarkets aren't the best place to buy cheese. For many reasons, cheese requires more individualized attention than most supermarkets can afford.
You will also fare better in a real cheese shop, where a knowledgeable cheese monger can help guide you through the sometimes overwhelming selection.
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In 1858
John L. Mason of New York City received a patent for improvements on jars meant for food storage and preservation, including a continuous raised spiral or thread around the mouth of the jar. This type of glass storage jar was inexpensive, more or less infinitely reusable, easy to clean, and imparted no off flavors, as was the case with metal containers.
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Serious Eats community member and food blogger Kevin Weeks shares his tips on cooking for a crowd at NPR's Kitchen Window: "Catering a large event yourself isn't impossible. But it does require careful, even obsessive, planning. My cutoff point is 25 guests unless I have access to a professional kitchen and have professional help. And even then I'll only do it with the right menu.”...
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"4401": A four-digit code indicates conventionally grown items, here white-fleshed peaches. Those pesky PLU code stickers that you have to peel off your fruit and vegetables do more than just convey prices to the cashier. If you know how to read them, says Marion Owen at PlanTea.com, they can tell you a thing or two. Conventional produce gets a four-digit number. Organic produce gets a five-digit number that starts with 9. Genetically modified items also get a five-digit code, but that code starts with 8. Examples 4139: Conventional Granny Smith apple 94139: Organic Granny Smith 84139: GMO Granny Smith If you want a full list of PLU codes, hit up the International Federation for Produce Standards, where you can look...
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