Why invest in costly cookbooks filled with recipe selections you’ll never try? Instead of buying numerous cookbooks and subscribing to expensive cooking magazines, consider taking advantage of the many free printable pages the Internet offers, and create a handy box of recipe cards. Instead of thumbing through pages upon pages of recipes in a book ...
I grew up on a small farm in rural Missouri. There were nine in my family so growing a large garden was a necessity. As a kid, I took to gardening like I was born there. I loved digging in the dirt and helping my dad grow the biggest tomatoes I’d ever seen. Our tomato ...
We all have our favorite recipes from Mom’s meatloaf to Gramma’s Sunday chicken, but no recipe book in the world will ever contain all the recipes you love and want. So what do you do? You make your own recipe book, that’s what! It’s easy to make a recipe book with a little know-how. Here’s ...
What is Blanching? Blanching is a method of ingredient preparation that shocks the fresh food, usually a fruit or vegetable, by first submerging it in boiling water, then moving it directly to ice water. Blanching is used for many things in cooking. It brightens and locks in color for foods like fresh green beans, sterilizes ...
