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Here's a fun and relevant fact: the "dryness" of a bread is influenced more by the amount of fat in it and the details of baking than by the original water content. In this case, I recommend the f...
Thick stews and "mushy" foods seem like they tend to do pretty well. I've had good luck with chilies and soups (both vegetable and pasta). These can all be dumped in a bowl and microwaved for a few...
What are some foods that can be cooked, then frozen, and then thawed or reheated for a quick meal? I'm not necessarily looking for specific recipes, but ideas about general food types.
TL;DR: is there something I can coat the inside of metal salt shakers with to protect them? Or am I missing a better clue? I have two pairs of antique glass salt shakers (of significant sentimenta...
I had a banana bread recipe that called for brown sugar, but all the brown sugar I could find in the house had turned to rock. I never actually got to try the original recipe, but I got a nicely fl...
Pesto Not a whole meal, but the key part of a quick meal: Our annual pesto production goes into ice cube trays, then into freezer bags once the cubes have frozen. A few cubes at a time can be pul...
They are the same cooking method. However, an outdoor gas grill is typically not built as well as indoor gas grill of the same cost, because they need to include a housing. Practically speaking, th...
I think the only real question here is leg. Drumstick - the lower part Thigh - the upper part Leg Quarter - Drumstick + Thigh. "Quarter" comes from the 4 quarters: Left Drumstick + Thigh, Right Dr...
I made toasted cheese sandwiches with soft, fresh white bread. They where softer then I expected when I took them out of the frying pan. Kind of bendy and floppy around instead of holding their sha...
I have the same (nearly) ingredients but a very different process, and it results in nice crispy grilled cheese every time: Two slices of regular sandwich bread frozen and removed from the freezer...
I use a griddle or frying pan; the key is to toast/grill/fry the insides golden-brown so they are crispy before sandwiching the cheese between them. I don't think toasting them would be a good idea...
I live in shared flat and today I rummaged through our kitchen a bit. There I was surprised to find the following kitchen tool: It has small holes in it and the area around it heats up pretty qui...
Today I found some interesting things while rummaging through the kitchen in my shared flat. One of the things I found was a waffle maker but sadly it's a bit broken. The hinge between the top and...
Each pan of the waffle maker is made by pouring molten metal into a mold, then applying many layers of a non-stick coating. Repairing a break in this location is not reasonable. Waffle-makers in w...
Milk is water, protein, fat, and sugar (lactose). In a half-cup of milk, I google: 4g protein, 4g fat, 6g sugar. I would substitute in a half cup of water, ignore the extra protein, add a drip more...
Soy Milk makes a good substitute. A word of caution, in most case use the original non-flavored type. Using vanilla soy milk with canned tomato soup is unpleasant. I found several supporting refere...
Today was a cold, rainy day, so I made this hearty vegetable stew to compensate. Contains miscellaneous vegetables from my latest produce box.
I made a stew consisting of potatoes, pepper bell and octopus with a cheese gratin on top of it. I spiced it up with chilli seasoning so that it can warm me up... ;)
Today, I prepared some Gyros and mixed it with some pasta. (Usually Gyros is served with rice or bread or as a sandwich, similar to kebab.)
One thing you can try is to tense up your hand so that the whole hand is as flat as possible. (For some people, tensing up the hand leads to a slight overstretch facing upwards where the fingers ov...
Spicy chili! Apparently we should have called this a stew challenge instead.=)
Time for another challenge! Bread has been a staple of diet around the world for thousands of years, and as a result has proliferated in incredible diversity, from flatbreads and pitas to sweet des...
I was finally able to get my hands on some rye flour that wasn't exorbitantly priced, so I tried a rye sourdough recipe for the first time this past week. The recipe uses molasses, which darkened ...
