Keeping a Kitchen Journal

TweetWhile I’m not very regular about it, I do love to journal. This can happen in many different ways as the article below will help point out. One way I do journal is right on my favorite recipes themselves. I’ll add little side notes and maybe even quips about who or what on a night I made it. This helps…

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Six Tips for Cooking for the Freezer

Tweet Placing finished meals in your freezer can save you time in the kitchen. It takes hardly any more time and only double your ingredients to have a time saving meal ready for the times when you just don’t have the energy or the time to start a meal fresh. If you would like to start cooking for the freezer….

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5 Ways to Simplify Dinner Cooking

Tweet Making dinner got you down? Do you find yourself letting out a big sigh around five or six o’clock when you realize you have yet another meal to cook? Follow these five tips below to simply the dinner meal making. 1. Have pre-cut seasoning vegetables such as onions, carrots, and celery already cut and bagged in the freezer. When…

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7 Tips to Save Money

TweetI grew up on a farm and it’s amazing to me how wasteful most people are.  It was nearly impossible for me to throw away food once I moved out.  But where in the world was I going to use it if I didn’t toss it?  I grew up that everything went into compost or to our animals.  Not an…

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Freezing Vegetables

Tweet Provided vegetables are treated properly, they will freeze particularly well, retaining more flavor and goodness than by preserving in any other method. Learn the four basic rules dealt with this section and you cannot fail. Blanching, chilling, packaging and correct cooking. Vegetables cannot be frozen raw. They must be blanched first, whilst fresh and tender. Blanching vegetables helps to…

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