Why make your own salad dressing? Because – Homemade tastes better! Store brands are often watered down with, well, water, and other cheap ingredients, like corn syrup, thickeners, and other ingredients called fillers – and that is exactly what they do – they don’t even add flavor but are added just to fill the extra
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Do you know the difference between broth and stock? Though they are both a liquid, there are differences. And these difference are in how they are prepared. Broth starts with meat or vegetables and including seasonings like onion, carrots, celery, herbs, salt and pepper. Broth is cooked in less than two hours and is best
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For the the greater part of human history, most cultures could not afford to waste food, so a number of uses for stale bread as an example were fashioned. Stale bread was used in many dishes, which were both savory and sweet. One of those sweet dishes became sweet bread pudding. The basic recipe for
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There are many varieties of vinegar’s. Like red wine vinegar, champagne vinegar, rice vinegar, cider vinegar, white wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar, sherry vinegar, and white vinegar. Vinegar’s are used for pickling, de-glazing pans, marinating meats, making sauces and is found in some desserts. White or cider vinegar’s are even used for house cleaning and disinfecting
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When you hear the word candy cane, it is always associated with a candy that is in the shape of a small cane with white and red strips through it. Or a small rounded candy you would receive at a restaurant after enjoying a meal. Did you know though that there is a root vegetable
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According to Spice Pages by Gernot Katzer, basil is native to India, though it is not used as a culinary herb, but rather is considered sacred and use in religious rites. Besides the most common Mediterranean type basil sold in the Western world, there is also varieties from the Asian world, such as Thailand‘s sweet basil
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When your hungry but to tired to make a big deal about preparing something to eat can be discouraging. But isn’t it great when you just go looking through the refrigerator to see what you have, and you come up with a simple idea. That’s what happened here with our Sweet Pork and apple Wrap.
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Despite the name, a coffee cake does not have any coffee in it at all. A coffee cake though is a great cake to enjoy served at breakfast, brunch or as a snack with a cup of coffee. This apple cream cheese coffee cake has a wonderful cake texture and a rich flavor with delicious,
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