cooking

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...

[Mod.comment: I checked that this is a bona fide organisation (MG)] Please join SNACC for a virtual cooking event to address food insecurity and support healthy habits for children in New York! SNACC is an after-school food education program addressing food insecurity by focusing on cooking...

I went to propose this, as others have. Found a discussion about this very subject down there. However something occurred to me. What is ethnic ? To me, like Indian food is ethnic, but India has more people then we, so just who is foreign ? I thought I would open up the Polish cooking a bit...

Hi everybody:) I am Elin from Denmark and 32 years old . I have 3 kids. It is hard too cook with 3 kids (7 and 4 years. 5 months ) but I like to cook and making delicious food for my family. I love cooking and baking. I will upload some picture of my cooking.

A Brief History here: I'm a relative newbie here, but am an experienced and passionate home charcuterie maker here in the UK and recently crossed paths with a veteran member MypinchofItaly where we were discussing the use of guanciale - this is one of the first and most easy things you can make...

I'm making a YouTube video this week on Oyakodon (oya = parent, ko= child, don=rice bowl) or Chicken and Egg over rice. I made (and ate) five today. As I was doing it, I wondered how I could change it to make it "American" but still keep the concept: Boiling/Poaching meat with egg and serving it...

Hello I am really enjoying cooking on the bbq, its something i find strange as I hate cooking. So, when cooking a plain chicken, nothing really special, I would like crispy skin. I normally get the extra tasty cook in the bag (already prepared) chickens and roast them. I have only cooked this...

Let's explore the truths and fallacies about cooking and food. For instance, is it true that tomato will ameliorate the sting of hot peppers? Can you use it to take the pepper sting out of your eyes? Does garlic really prevent bacteria and viruses from growing? Can it be used as a...

Are Your Cooking and Dining Choices Atrociously Outlandish? Put your two cents in on what might be the definition of fine dining and healthy food intake with your comments.

I have a cookbook my mother received as a new bride. It's at least 70 years old. It's close to 4 inches (10 cm) thick and has everything from how to sit a table to handling servants and tradespeople to building smoke houses and root cellars, besides recipes. I also have her bundt cake pan...

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) for California electric power consumers provides a nice web site that allows paying bills and monitoring power usage. I did a comparison using the apartment's electric range and my NuWave portable cook top to see how power savings might stack up by using the...

What's the member opinion on wood kitchen utensil sets? Best wood? - bamboo? Does the wood absorb flavors or spices - especially peppers?

Hello everyone am Juliet. Am new to the group, hope I have a place to keep my bag. I am from Nigeria with a great love for cooking. I think this place Will be a good place to meet people of the same mindset Am blessed to be here. Hello once More

Here's a vid that was posted for me to see. I'm new to this type of cooking, so I thought that I'd make a thread with it. Anyone wishing to post vids or stories about Sous Vide cooking, you can post them here. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxNaxi6dmFc

I got my galangal root today and am not ready to create what I will call Spice Island Mash and possibly a spice coulis - if there is such a thing.

Having a special interest in wartime cooking, centering around rationing and the second world war. I wondered if there are more members here who share my interest and/or have experimented with rationing before to see what it was like. I'm particularly interested in the British and American...

Hello fellow cooking & foodie lovers : ) I'm very happy to have found a very nice cooking & food loving community I just joined today very happy to have found you all : ) I'm from Cambridgeshire, England UK. I look fwd to posting & hanging out with y'all cheers : ) Kindest loving regards💗...

Hi everyone, hope you're all well and safe. I am conducting some research to support a report I am writing about a new concept idea I have come up with for the world of cooking; 'Sous-Chef PRO'. The Sous-Chef PRO is a smart electronic tablet like device that is a cooking timer, recipe book...

I got curious and did some searches to find out how many types of cooking oils exist... Oils can be used in a variety of ways and not all of them apply to frying. They may be used as Salad Oils for Dressing, Baking Oils and Marinade Oils, to touch the surface of the diversity of ways in which...