QOTW - Kitchen tips

[Guest guest]

Here is a great site with lots of tips on common issues in cooking/baking. I

learned a lot from reading it.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/2654

 

Here are some of my tips,

Use a mandolin to quickly chop and slice up veggies to desires size,

 

buy peeled garlic cloves(they come in large tubs at Sam's Club),

 

rinse rice, to clean and remove excess starch,

 

add a whole peeled potato to a dish if it is to salty and the potato will take

up the excess salt

 

saute fresh chopped cabbage in a small amount of Smart Balance Light, in a

covered frying pan and stir often. Add salt to taste and things like Ms. Dash.

This makes the cabbage taste wonderful and not like water logged tasteless

cabbage

 

add some diced collard greens to soup, in the last 10 minutes of cooking

 

to get garlic and onion smells off your hands, rug them on a stainless steel

spoon.

 

add salt to boiling water, before adding eggs and if an egg happens to crack in

the boiling process, the egg will immediately stop leaking out egg from the

shell. Boil eggs for 10 minutes and then put in ice water. Egg will peel

easily and be done.

 

if adding spinach to a recipe, add it only in the last 3-4 minutes of cooking

and remove from heat.

 

Add frozen peas and corn in the last 4 minutes of cooking, in soups, so they

won't be starchy or overcooking and will retain their bright color and

sweetness.

 

To make the house smell wonderful, add a cup of very hot water to a small

potpourri crockpot, and then stir in cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, a drop of

vanilla flavoring and dried apple slices.

 

Ok that is what has popped into my mind at the moment.

 

Judy

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

But, if you are using a converted rice like Uncle Ben's DON'T rinse

it.....doesn't need it.

Nancy C.