Showing posts with label Food Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Tips. Show all posts

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Cooking Tips To Make Life Easier

It is found that these days when people plan to lose weight or shed extra kilos from their body, they search for healthy cooking tips. They search for milk shakes or fruit juice recipes. They also search for any other diet cooking tips which can be easily prepared.

There are few basic diet cooking tips which one can learn quite easily to prepare in the kitchen. It is observed that with the ever-increasing work pressure it has almost become a necessity to learn few great healthy cooking tips.


Here are mentioned a handful of nutritious cooking tips that will not only save your money but also your time.



  • Boiled Eggs- While you are boiling eggs, add salt and vinegar to it. This will retain the nutrients and also won't let the shell crack.

  • Bacon- You must make sure that you run cold water over bacon so that it doesn't shrink before frying.

  • Salads – Always remember that when you are making salads, cut your lettuce into wedges instead of tearing them up just to save little time.

  • Unripe fruits and vegetables - Put your ripening fruit and vegetables in a brown paper bag and place it inside a dark cupboard or box for a few days.

  • Pancakes – They are liked by almost everybody. To make them browner in a short span of time, add a little amount of sugar to them.

  • Sauces - To prepare any sauce quickly, make use of condensed cream soups such as cream of chicken, mushroom, and tomato. These will surely help in preparing fast and easy sauces.

  • Tenderization- You can make use of vinegar as a meat tenderizer. Just add a tablespoon of vinegar while you are boiling meat for stews.

  • Frozen vegetables – Wash your frozen vegetables with warm water so that they don't stick together.

  • Corn – Always place your corn directly into boiling water, and don't add salt to it. If by chance you overcook it, the corn will lose its natural taste.

  • Cheese – It is advised that always freeze the cheese before grating it. This will make the cheese shred much thinner and easier.

  • Spaghetti sauce - Just add a little bicarbonate soda to lower the acidic taste of the tomatoes in your spaghetti sauce.

  • Salted Peanuts – Wrap the salted peanuts in a damp cloth to get rid of the salt. This process will help enhance your health.

As you would have noticed, there are numerous tips for making healthy food. The above mentioned points are just few tips. With a little bit of creativity and imagination, you can come up with plenty of tips which can be quite useful for your family's health. The tips which you make use of should be in accordance with your cooking needs.


So, if it is your first day in the kitchen and you have no idea where to start, follow the above mentioned tips for guaranteed success. It is often observed that a haphazard way of cooking can only delay meals and you will be stuck in the kitchen for a long time. It's very important that you prepare quicker and easy-to-prepare meals that will be not only healthy but will also successfully please your family’s taste buds.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Sicilian Spaghetti



Ingredients



  • 1 pound spaghetti

  • 4 tablespoons olive oil

  • 3 cloves garlic, crushed

  • 1 (2 ounce) can anchovy fillets, chopped

  • 1 cup fine bread crumbs

  • 1 cup chopped fresh parsley

  • ground black pepper to taste

  • 4 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese

    Directions



    1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.

    2. Meanwhile, in a medium skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat and add garlic and anchovies to cook for about 2 minutes; stir constantly.

    3. Stir in breadcrumbs and turn off heat. Add parsley and black ground pepper; mix together.

    4. Toss anchovy sauce with hot pasta and sprinkle with cheese; serve.

Cheeseburger Soft Tacos


Ingredients



  • 4 (6 inch) Mission® Fajita Flour Tortillas

  • 1 pound lean ground sirloin

  • salt to taste

  • pepper to taste

  • 1 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese

  • 1 red tomato, cut into 1/4-inch slices

  • 2 leaves green leaf lettuce, small leaves

  • 1 large red onion, 1/4-inch slices pulled into rings

  • 12 dill pickle slices

Directions



  1. Separate ground beef into 4 equal parts (4 ounces each); form each part into 4 thin half moon shape patties. Try to shape each patty to fill half of a tortilla.

  2. Heat a 10-inch non-stick skillet (or use a square, deep-walled non-stick electric skillet) over medium high heat.

  3. Season each hamburger patty with salt and pepper and cook for 3 minutes a side or to your desired temperature.

  4. Near the end of desired cooking time, evenly sprinkle each patty with 1/4 cup of Cheddar cheese and allow the cheese to melt. Remove cheeseburgers and reserve hot.

  5. Warm tortillas in a microwave for 10 seconds.

  6. For 1 serving: Place a hot cheeseburger on one half of a warmed tortilla and top with 1 tomato slice,1 lettuce leaf, onion rings and 3 pickle slices. Fold the tortilla in half and serve.

  7. Repeat the build for the remaining 3 servings