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Posts tagged ‘recipes’

Quick Bruschetta Tips and Recipes

I was in a check-out line yesterday, when the man behind me ruefully surveyed his purchases and remarked that he was going to try to make bruschetta. Read more

Cleaning Chicken And Sanitary Egg Practices – Safe Eggnog Recipe

I couldn’t believe my ears the other day, when a celebrity chef, guesting on a talk show, recommended using raw egg whites in a recipe. This is in the midst of the “rinse or not to rinse” chicken debate, and that chef, I seem to recall, was on the nay side.   Read more

History of Hot Dogs and Some Good Hot Dog Recipes

The past two weeks, I’ve been talking about easy dinner solutions, yet haven’t mentioned the easiest and perhaps most economical food of all—the hot dog! Hot dogs have been a bone of contention for years. Are they just fun food, or a valid entrée ingredient? Read more

Quick Weekday Dinner Recipes for Busy Families

With fall here and school open, for many there’s not only an adjustment to the day time schedule, but to the evening, and often the night time ones as well. More importance is given to extra-curricular activities, and now with reduced P.E. in many districts there’s a concerted effort to fit sports programs into after school hours, weekends and even evenings.   Read more

REAP THE FALL – Fresh, Frozen and Canned Produce Recipes

Before starting this week’s posting I have some announcements to make. On Labor Day, September 2, my article; “Hello September” was featured on the new on-line food magazine The Bwyd (thebwyd.com). Read more

Basic Sauces Explained – Recipes for your favorite basic Sauces

A friend, who’s a really savvy cook, read me the riot act, via email, right after last week’s posting appeared. Quite rightly, he pointed out that I had confused sauces identity by incorrectly lumping them with gravies.   Read more

Savvy Sauce Recipes – Advanced Sauce Techniques

Those of you who read last week’s blog on sauce recipes will have realized that sauces, in their classic forms, can be tricky, time consuming, possibly expensive, to make and certainly no friend to any type of diet. Read more

Making your own Sauce – Sauce Recipes and Tips

If I were asked to define a sauce, I would say that it is a fluid which accompanies other ingredients enhancing the flavor and/or texture of the finished dish with which it is served. Read more