Category: Cooking
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How to Peel a Kiwi Fruit
A colleague showed me how to peel a kiwi fruit with virtually no mess and no fuss. Check out this cool little video to see how it is done –
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Awesome Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
As promised some days ago, here is the Yorkshire Pudding recipe my mother agreed to share with me and my readers. I was in the test kitchen when this Yorkshire Pudding recipe was made and it really is as easy as I describe here – there is no pre-heating the pan, no need for “beef…
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SushiQuik for the Home
The good folks at SushiQuik make a nifty device for rolling your own sushi at home and they were kind enough to send me a complimentary sample of their device so that I could see how it works, play around with it, and make a short video of my experience with the SushiQuik. As I…
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Sushi Quik and a New Tortilla Press
With all the festivities, fun parties and then my personal illness around the Christmas break I got backed up on my blogging and so I have a number of posts that I’m working on. One of the first blog posts I want to do is about this cool new sushi making device that will help…
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Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding
I actually did something this weekend that I never thought I would do. I went beyond simply “pinning a pin” on Pinterest and actually did something with an item I found – I followed a recipe that I found on Pinterest. I don’t know about you but this really is a first for me. So…
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After the Brined Turkey
Well Christmas dinner has come and gone and other than the “wreck” the brined turkey has been consumed. And the verdict? I still do not enjoy the white breast meat from turkey. The truth is, breast meat is simply too dry to be enjoyable. Even after brining for 24 hours, the breast meat was not…
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Brining a Turkey
I can’t stand to eat turkey; more specifically, I can’t stand the dry, sawdust like white turkey meat that is all too often served up at the traditional family gatherings like Thanksgiving and Christmas. I don’t mind the dark meat so much. As a result of my dislike for turkey, I have been searching for…
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The Veggetti Veggie Slicer Follow-up
The Eating in the Burbs test kitchen has been using the Veggetti we bought earlier in the summer to see how it really functions. And, I am very pleased to say that it does a very admirable job once one is comfortable with it and has the correct veggies to grind. When I first tried…
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Construction Techniques for Sandwiches
When constructing sandwiches it is important to make sure that you have meat coverage in your sandwiches from coast to coast on the bread you are working with. To accomplish “coast to coast meat coverage”, simply fold your chosen cold cut in half to form semi-circles. Then place the slices of cold cuts onto your…
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Video Review of the Veggetti
I picked up a new kitchen gadget – a Veggetti. This is a budget priced kitchen gadget used to cut vegetables like zucchinis, carrots or potatoes into “noodles” for low carb spaghetti, salads or hashbrown potatoes. Have a look –