How to Caramelize Sugar
Caramelized sugar is the basis for many candies, and if you know what you’re doing, it’s pretty simple. However, you must use caution because the...
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How to Soften Brown Sugar Quickly
Have you ever started making a treat (cookies for example), knowing full well that you have all the ingredients on hand, only to discover that...
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How to Keep Berries Fresh
It’s so frustrating to buy fresh berries only to find they’ve turned moldy after just a few days. Don’t despair. I’m going to teach you...
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How to Toast Coconut
Sometimes recipes call for toasted coconut, which adds a lovely color, crunch and flavor. Have you ever read one and wondered how to toast coconut?...
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Cake Flour (How to Make Cake Flour from All-Purpose Flour)
I never have cake flour when I want it, and the stores around me don’t carry it. But there’s no need to be discouraged because it’s...
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Freezing Peaches (How to)
Fresh peaches are one of my favorite fruits. I love to eat them plain, sliced in cereal or yogurt, or on ice cream. They’re just so sweet and...
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Cooking Broccoli (How to Keep Cooked Broccoli Bright Green)
I really like broccoli, in fact, as a child, it was my FAVORITE vegetable. My son-in-law, Michael, calls it “nature’s candy.” So, you’d think that...
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How to Cook Cauliflower
I feel the same way about cooked cauliflower as I do about cooked broccoli …. I love to eat it, but don’t do so nearly...
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Pulled Pork (How to Cook Pork Roast for Sandwiches, Tacos, Etc.)
I’ve seen dozens of recipes for preparing pulled pork in a slow cooker with a sauce. That’s definitely the simplest way to go, but I...
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How to Make Hard-Boiled Eggs
This post is one which would have benefited me greatly a few years ago. In the past, I struggled with hard-boiled eggs. Frequently, the yolks were covered in a greenish-grayish...
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Homemade Pizza Sauce and Crust
As a parent, there are moments in your life when you realize that your child has surpassed you in some way. These moments can occur...
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Grilled Steaks
As the weather starts to change from winter to spring, we get excited about getting outside and firing up the grill! My husband does a...
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Separating Eggs (How to)
Just in case you don’t know how to separate the yolk from the white, this is a quick tutorial. No special tools are necessary, but...
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Frozen Bananas (How to Freeze Bananas)
I’m bananas about frozen bananas! My family has a very inconsistent relationship with bananas: we’re hot, then we’re cold. I buy a bunch each week....
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Tempering Chocolate (How to)
Tempering chocolate is a process of melting and cooling it to cause something scientific to happen to the fat. The explanation involves a chemical reaction within the fats....
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Shredded Beef (How to Prepare Beef for Tacos, Enchiladas, Sandwiches, etc)
This method makes moist, savory, delicious beef for use in any way you wish. When I make it, I always do a lot, and freeze some...
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Pumpkin Puree (How to Make it)
Pumpkin puree, the stuff we use to make pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread and pumpkin cake and pumpkin muffins and pumpkin cookies and pumpkin this...
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Shredded Chicken (How to Cook Chicken for Casseroles)
Many recipes, from casseroles to salads to tacos, call for cooked chicken. Here’s a tutorial on how to prepare it. I only use white meat...
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Lattice Pie Crust (How to)
Lattice top pie crusts are so pretty, and they make any fruit pie look special. The good news is that they’re actually really easy to...
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Pie Crust
Over the years, I’ve experimented with MANY pie crust recipes. I’ve found that this one is the easiest to work with, and it tastes good,...
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