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How To Cook A Tender Juicy Steak
You invest a lot of time and money into the steaks for a special occasion and when dinner time comes, they are tough. What happened? How can you cook steaks as tender as your favorite restaurant?
The first step to cooking a good steak is to choose the right grade of steak. The top quality beef is graded USDA Prime and commands top prices. USDA Prime grade meats are sold to the restaurant industry and specialty markets and are not as likely to be found at your local grocery chain.
article tags: steak, food, grilling, cooking, meat tenderizing, marinating, marinade
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The History of Tiramisu’ Cake: Where and how this famous dessert was invented
Open an old Italian cookbook, browse through the index and… surprise! No Tiramisu’ cake recipe. My first encounter with Tiramisu’ was in 1985. I was in Italy at that time: A friend of mine told me about this new cake recipe she got. She was so enthusiastic about it that I felt compelled to try it immediately. The taste was unbelievably good, as never I had tasted before.
article tags: italian, tiramisu recipe, recipes, dessert, cake, trifle, classic, traditional, new, frutti di bosco, berries, mascarpone, zabaione, zabaglione, sabajon, custard, layer cake, savoiardi, lady fingers
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When Things Go Wrong: A Guide to Fixing Kitchen Disasters
When Things Go Wrong: A Guide to Fixing Kitchen Disasters
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Grilling Tuna Steak For A Simple Gourmet Meal
Looking for a delicious and simple way to grill up that fresh tuna steak that you just caught or bought from the local seafood market? Grilled tuna steak is a delightful and exciting entree for any special meal. There are various methods to spice up and flavor your catch, but today we want to talk about a popular method using wasabi powder. This unique spice is being used by many top chefs to add a special flare and flavoring to the tuna.
article tags: grilling, tuna, steak, simple, gourmet, meal, seafood
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Basic Cookware Explained
What is All-Clad stainless steel cookware and why is it the best top-of-the-line bake ware you can buy? All-Clad cookware is made with a heavy aluminum inside which extends up the sides of the pan. It is coated with a stainless steel cooking surface and has an outside layer of magnetic stainless steel. This type of bake ware is ideal for cooking on a gas stove where the flames can burn up the sides of the pots and pans.
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Cleaning Trout - How To Clean a Trout Fish
Cleaning trout. Does that bring back memories! I think I was about 9 years old when I first learned how to clean trout. It is really pretty easy. A little practice and you will soon be cleaning trout with ease. If at all possible, use clean, running water to rinse the trout as you clean.
Scaling the trout.
For this step, you will need a fish-board with a clip to hold the tail or you can hold the tail with your hand.
article tags: cleaning trout, clean a trout, trout cleaning
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Different Types of Barbecue Grills
Copyright 2006 Emma Snow
Summer is here and the steaks are ready to grill, the only problem is that you don't know exactly what type of barbeque grill to buy. There are many questions that need to be asked when buying a grill. Things such as cost, ease of use, other uses besides grilling, flavor and portability should be considered. The most important item in this list depends on what you want.
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Cake Decorating Book - Make your cake look more delicious
Everyone loves to eat cake, which is nicely and perfectly decorated. But due to lack of decorating skill ones wish is not fulfilled up to the maximum level. Now with the help of cake decorating book one can easily decorate the cake and make it look more rich and delicious. These books are specially designed for preparing cakes. They also provide you with additional mouth watering recipes and tips to make your cake more delicious for consumption.
article tags: cake decorating book, decorating book, christmas cake, wedding cake, party cake, birthday cake
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The Well-Stocked Kitchen Starts With Cutting-Edge Knives
Preparing meals that are a cut above the ordinary may be easier if you start with the right cutting tools.
Well-designed cutting tools are engineered with style, safety and performance in mind. A smartly constructed knife is fashioned of forged high-carbon stainless steel and chromium for optimum rust and stain resistance.
For example, Insignia2 cutlery has fully tapered blade edges that are engineered with Chicago Cutlery's signature Taper Grind™ Edge for extreme sharpness, performance, edge retention and resharpening ease.
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Salts Explained
Cooking Salts Explained
Salt, also known as Sodium Chloride or (NaCl) is a vital component of the healthy and balanced human diet. Over half of the human body contains fluids that contain salt. Our blood, tears and saliva all contain salt. In addition we daily lose salt in our perspiration and urine. Muscles need salt in order to function, nerves require salt to carry messages and the digestive system cannot function without salt.
article tags: salt, sodium, blood pressure, sea salt, rock salt, kitchen salt
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Rediscovering Grilled Pizza
America’s favorite food has long been the pizza cooked in a traditional oven but is that about to change? While most Americans have probably never indulged in a grilled pizza, the origins of pizza are making a big comeback. There is no denying that we love our traditional backyard barbeque but rarely, if ever has the barbeque included grilling a pizza.
article tags: grilled pizza, grilling, barbeque, barbeque pizza, bbq, pizza, food, cooking, culinary, favorite food
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Cookware - What’s New In Cookware?
As in most other industries, the cookware industry are constantly coming out with new lines and innovations. Some of the new lines are only available in gourmet or specialty shops and are sure to be expensive.
Regalware has a new cast iron cookware with a twice-fired ceramic exterior. It’s available in Royale Blue or Brick Red. As opposed to older cast iron cookware, this new ceramic exterior will work on any cooking surface, including glass top stoves.
article tags: cookware sets, cooking, saucepans
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Give Your Children The Power Of Purple At Snack Time
Here's food for thought: Eating a rainbow of colorful fruits and vegetables provides a variety of plant nutrients, also known as phytonutrients, into our diet. Research suggests that phytonutrients have important health benefits. So children's snack time is a great time to add colorful variety to your family's diet.
One color category of fruits and vegetables that isn't well represented in many diets is the purple/blue group, including deeply colored berries, deep purple grapes, and purple hued veggies.
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Cookware What You Need and What You Don't!
What are the real ”cookware essentials”, the things that you really can’t do without? Well surprisingly you actually need only a very small amount of things to get you going. Probably considerably less than you have already.
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Ever Think About Getting A Barbeque Pit?
The barbeque pit has been around for ages. Some people claim that barbequing in the pit is better then cooking in the kitchen.
Barbeque pits came out around 1920. But they only became popular in the 1950 when practically everyone owned one. Back in those days more people had family and friends gathering and big cook outs, but now it’s hard to find time for all of that.
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Gas Grills - 9 How Tos for Safety and Maintenance
How do I prepare my grill for spring?
Be sure to clean spider webs out of the venturi tubes as described below.
You may open your grill in the spring and find remnants of the meal you cooked on it last season. Don't worry. According to Howtocleananything.com, cleaning the grill is actually easier than most people realize, and you can usually forego the brushes, dirty sink and elbow grease if you start the day before you need the grill.
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A Brief History of Pizza: The Dish that Conquered the World
Pizza, the way we know it today, is a derivation from focaccia (from the Latin word for fire), flat bread that has been prepared since antiquity in different forms and garnished with herbs, olives, fat, raisin, honey, and nuts.
The word pizza in Italian identifies any type of flat bread or pie—fried or baked. Although you’d find many types of pitas or pizzas around the Mediterranean, it is in Naples that pizza in the form we know it today first emerged, after the tomato appeared on the table in the 1700s.
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What Exactly Is a Crockpot?
Copyright 2006 Tony Buel
The word 'crockpot' is a name which is actually a trademarked name, but is often used as a generic term. The terms 'crockpot' and 'slow cooker' have come to be used interchangeably.
'Rival' is the original holder of the trademarked term 'Crock-Pot'.
The Rival Crock-Pot / slow cooker has been one of the most important cooking tools for busy families since its introduction in 1971.
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Mongolian Hot Pot - More Uses For Your Fondue Pot
As much as you love your fondue pot, you can’t dunk bread cubes into hot melted cheese every night. On those nights when you need a break from cheese fondue, why not use the fondue pot for something else. Mongolian Hot Pot is a great meal that can be cooked in an electric fondue pot.
It is said that Mongolian Hot Pot was originated by the ancient Mongols who would cook their food in boiling water.
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10 Great Tips On Cooking Meals
If you are as busy as most people you are always looking for ways to feed your family in convenient, fast, yet not-too-expensive ways. Try the following suggestions:
1. Cooking several meals for the week at one time. It may take a few hours of your time up front but will pay off in the long run when you come home each evening and have a meal ready to eat in a short amount of time.
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Making Cake Or Cobbler In Your Microwave
Just because it is summer doesn’t mean you don’t want to be able to make nice desserts for your family. The problem is: who wants to turn on their oven to bake a cake or make a cherry cobbler? Here are some recipes I have made often in my microwave. I tested them on my family and they were very satisfied.
Blueberry or Cherry Cobbler
Ingredients
2 (21 oz) can blueberry or cherry pie filling
1 tsp.
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How To Choose The Perfect Bread Maker
Bread makers are extremely popular. The average person can make delicious, homemade bread quite easily with a bread maker. Even with the ease of a bread machine, you must still use caution when adding the ingredients, even if you use a mix. You can make a variety of shapes and sizes of loaf with a bread machine. Many people use a bread machine to simply mix the ingredients then bake the loaf in a traditional oven.
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Cooking As A Culinary Art
Culinary arts is the art of cooking. Cooking is a way to prepare food that will be eaten or served to other people.
The culinary arts is comprised of many categories - some of which are tools, methods, combination of spices and ingredients that adds flavour to the food. It normally needs the right measurements, proper selection and accurate combination of ingredients involved to reach desired result.
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Breadmakers For Easy Baking
A bread maker is a home appliance that has revolutionized the process of making breads. First manufactured in 1986 in Japan, breadmaker since then moved its way to homes in the United States and United Kingdom. By means of a breadmaker, automatic baking has become possible and more convenient.
As with ordinary baking, ingredients must first be measured according to the recipe.
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Amazing Thai Recipe
Bamboo Shoots: Bamboo shoots are called for in many Thai recipes. In order to prepare a bamboo shoot for cooking you need to peel them and boil the white inner stalks for 30 minutes in water. If you are using canned bamboo shoots you will only need to boil them for 10 minutes, or if they are going into curries or soups, boiling might not be required.
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