Category: Cooking Methods & Food Reviews

Cooking With Mexican-Style Chorizo

Mexican-style chorizo is an intensely-flavored pork sausage and unlike Spanish-style chorizo (from Spain) Mexican-style chorizo always needs to be cooked before eating. As chorizo from Spain is cured and Mexican chorizo is raw. The characteristics of Mexican-style chorizo are: it is made of ground pork and can be spicy or mild. The spices can include: […]

How To Bake Cupcakes

Cupcakes can be so much fun to make. They’re a deliciously yummy small handheld version of a slice of cake. Baking cupcakes aren’t too challenging to make. The biggest hurdle though, can be, how long a cupcake recipe should be baked and at what temperature. Try these cupcakes a sweet and sophisticated twist on a […]

How To Make A Delicious Omelet

An omelet is of French cuisine and has a long history dating back to perhaps as early as the 14th century. There is a legend that after eating an omelet for the first time made by a town’s innkeeper, Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the people of the town to gather all of the eggs and make […]

Mastering Spice Pairings For Flavorful Dishes

Spices have been valued throughout history not only for religious ceremonies and medicine, but also for culinary purposes. Spices are parts of plants that are densely loaded with flavor and aromas. Spices are derived from the stems, roots, fruit, seeds, and flowers. Science has studied and investigated that these flavors and aromas are compounds or […]

How To Make Moist Banana Bread

The banana is the world’s most popular fruit. Bananas account for roughly 75% of the tropical fruit trade. Bananas are not just eaten as a snack, but are also used as a culinary ingredient found in many recipes, particularly desserts. These desserts can include the following among many others: The banana is the universal ultimate […]

How To Make A Salad

A salad is a dish prepared with mixed greens, cabbage (cole slaw), potatoes or with fruits and vegetables. They are typically served at room temperature or chilled, though some can be served warm. Condiments and salad dressings, which exist in a variety of flavors, are often used to enhance a salad. The amazing thing about […]

Smoke Point Of Cooking Oils

Cooking oils are an integral part of cooking. They are apart of several different recipes, such as vinaigrette’s, salad dressing’s, and marinades. They are also useful for searing, frying, grilling, or sautéing meat and vegetables. Vinaigrette’s To Complete Your Salad We get cooking oil from seeds and nuts, like sunflowers, corn, grape, almonds, walnuts, olives, […]

Cooking With Coconut

Coconut is a food with a culinary diversity. You can use the flesh either fresh of dried. You can turn the flesh into flour, milk, cooking oil, and even use the water or juice as a beverage. The sap of the coconut palm can be used as sugar or a sweetener. The thin outer skin […]

Cooking With Blueberries

Fresh blueberries are available all year long. And that is possible because in North America, (U.S. &Mexico) blueberries are harvested and available from April to late October. During the winter months of North America, South America is experiencing summer, and blueberries are harvested between November and March. With Peru being the top exporter during these […]

The History Of Cooking

The exact origins of cooking are not known, but at some point, humans conquered fire and started using it to prepare food. For most of human history, the only way to cook a meal, was over an open fire. While fire is the most important element of cooking, it was not the only heat source […]