cooking

It may be time to cook,but would you let your little one do a dangerous job in the kitchen such as the job pictured below? There are many food prep & cooking jobs to do, some that kids would not even THINK about hesitating to do, but let's face it, sadly, they can get injured, burned or hurt...

We all love cooking, but of course, even for the most cheerful of cooks, it can become a drudgery, night after night, week after week. When looking at the days and weeks ahead, do you purposely build into your plan a night off from cooking? Sometimes, it can take care of itself, like if you...

We have wonderful cooks here, and we all love being in the kitchen, but we all have days where we just can’t be bothered. Maybe work gets in the way, or family emergencies, or maybe you’re just too tired. For me, it’s usually work or personal errands, and some days, just scrambling an egg is...

Thinking of typical food and cooking aromas, I’m sure things like bacon frying, or a roast in the oven, or a simmering sauce, would place high on a lot of people’s list of favorites. I was struck by one I never would have considered. I made devil’s food cupcakes the other day, minus any...

I had one today. I was making Mr. OH some smoked salmon bagels. I generally toast the bagel, slather on cream cheese, then add red onion, capers, and the smoked salmon on top. We like all the ingredients warm, so I put it back into the toaster oven for a few minutes. A couple of capers...

Following on from the least enjoyable part of cooking, aside from eating, what's you most enjoyable part of cooking? For me, it's pulling off a favourite dish favourite knowing I've made it to the best I can.

What is it? Peeling spuds... shopping for ingredients...doing dishes after... getting timings right... etc... What post of the whole cooking process do you really not like? For me it's the dishing out once its all cooked. We have a small galley kitchen and it's a nightmare making room for the...

I got a butane cooking torch as one of my gifts. I've never used one before. I know we have a few members who like and use them quite a bit, so I thought I'd ask all the varied ways you all use yours. There are the obvious things, like crème brûlée and putting a char on a sous vide steak...

I am given to wonder how many members do, or would, use a hearth for cooking, specifically, indoors, not outside. The most common hearth might be a fireplace hearth, but I rather like the concept of a floor pit hearth. If I had the where with all, I think I might endeavor to have a space...

All salts are equal. It just isn't true. Crystal size, for one, effects how much salt to use when cooking with salt. Flavor in salts can be very subtle in differences.

I would like to add some chocolate into the Quinoa whilst its cooking. Should I add it at the beginning, in the middle or at the end? I'm hoping to have some delicious melted chocolate to augment the flavour. Ingredients ▢80 g quinoa raw, rinsed, approx. ½ cup ▢240 ml milk, any adjust the...

I think this is a timely thread for some of us. I keep running into new cooking language, terminology and definitions and there ought to be a thread to share such things. Here's a neat term and definition, for example ... bricolage: A meal cooked from available ingredients, often creating...

I have not seen en papillote cooking discussed and I am given cause to wonder what one might cook in a closed pouch and how the method of heating the pouch may vary. I looked up the raw definition of en papillote and it is defined as cooking something wrapped in paper. That's not a pouch...

I've been binge watching cooking videos all day non stop.

How many here have ever cooked over an open fire, like a campfire? Did/do you like it? What have you cooked? CD

Hi chaps I’m a little confused, no change there, I want to cook broccoli and keep it crunchy and bright green, I generally plunge it into plenty of boiling water in a pan without a lid but I read that a lot of vitamins leach out into the water, the alternative is steaming but I thought steaming...

When cooking Quinoa do you add boiling water to the Quinoa or add cold water and bring it to the boil? Or perhaps it doesn't matter.

Hello, I need help with the saddle of deer, for a nice menu for 2 persons. I'm looking for a 1kg piece and I planned to pan-fry it first on high heat to brown it on all sides. Then I would like to finnish it inside of the pre-heaten oven, on a temperature, that's not to high, so the meat won't...

Where do you get your creative new cooking ideas from? 1) Cook Books and other paper source recipes. 2) Web sites with recipes. 3) Self imagination regarding your current food stock. 4) Creating a meal to use perishables you have in the food stock, before they go bad. 5) Friends and family. 6)...

Having a family birthday party for 12 people at my home. What do you cook that is easy? I am sick of baked ziti, lasagna, meatballs, sausage. Seems like everyone makes that. In the past, I have had it catered but do not want to spend $$$ for this at this date in time. I do not want my...