Question:
How to Make Mashed Potatoes
What’s the best way to make mashed potatoes? Can you use potatoes with white sprouts when making mashed potatoes?
Answer:
Making mashed potatoes is a great way to start cooking. They’re easy and delicious, mashed potatoes are a true comfort food. To make mashed potatoes, […]
Question:
What are Scallions?
When a recipe calls for a scallion – is it the green or the white part? What can I substitute for scallions in a recipe?
Answer: Scallions are a member of the Allium species, which are edible plants that are “onion-like”. They have long hollow green leaves and a white root bulb […]
Question:
What is Fennel?
Which parts of fennel do you eat?
Answer:
Fennel is a plant from the Umbellifereac family of plants, making it related to parsley, carrots, corriander and dill. Its texture and general appearance is much like celery – although the coloring, shape and taste are all slightly different. […]
When baking, what’s the proper way to grease my pan so that the cake pops right out after baking?
Answer:
There are two steps to properly grease & flour a pan. These 2 steps are important when making baked goods, especially cakes and quick breads.
If you are […]Question:
How to Blanch Green Beans? How do I keep my green beans crisp and green? How do I blanch asparagus?
Answer:
Below are the steps for blanching fruits and vegetables, like green beans. Included is a table of blanching times, so important to the blanching process.
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Question:
How to blanch almonds?
Blanching technically means whitening and for almonds that is true, because blanching makes it easy to remove the brown skin (seed coat) and produce a white almond. Below are the steps for blanching nuts, such as almonds or pistachios. For information on blanching fruits and vegetables, please see […]
Question: How to boil water?
How do you boil water? What is the boiling point of water?
Answer:
Water boils at 212°F, that is the boiling point of water.
Getting water to it’s boiling point is a simple process necessary to know when you begin cooking, as many recipes begin with boiling water.
[…]Question:
What is Blanching?
Answer:
Blanching, in culinary terms, is a quick partial cooking process where you quickly cook and then quickly cool the food. This process has many benefits which are explained below.
Blanching is helpful for many reasons:
1) Blanching is used for removing skins […]
Question:
How to ripen an avocado – How do you ripen an avocado after purchase?
Answer:
Believe it or not, the answer is simple: leave it on the counter. That’s it!
Avocados do not ripen until they are picked. They produce ethylene gas once they are picked, just like bananas, and ripen nicely […]
Question:
How long to thaw a turkey?
How long does it take to thaw a turkey? What
is the thawing time needed for a turkey? How long
to defrost a turkey?
How do you thaw a turkey?
Answer:
We have a chart below with all thawing times for
turkeys.
But first, let’s look at two
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