A Little Personal History I love a good chili sauce with egg rolls, and many other thai appetizers for dipping. And here’s may favorite chili sauce recipe. Description: Chili sauce can be used as a dipping sauce, cooking glaze[4] and marinade.[5] Sweet chili sauce is used in Thai cuisine,[6] and is also sometimes used in
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A Little Personal History: Most times when stock is called for it’s beef or Chicken stock. However, vegetable stock is great for dishes that already have a lot of vegetables in them. It’s also makes a great turkey marinade. Here’s my favorite recipe. Description: Category: Stock Servings: 1 gallon Time: Preparation Time: 20 minutes Cooking
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A Little Personal History: I’ve always been challenged to figure out the benefits between stock and broth. In the end, stock is richer and more flavorful. Other than perhaps chicken soup, that’s what I want in my recipes that ask for either. In the event I want to make soup, I’ll just add a little
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A Little Personal History: A staple I keep in frozen glass jars till needed. The list is too long how many times my dishes call for beef stock or broth. Description: It is essential that every cook know how to make a good stock or broth. It takes a lot of time, so plan ahead.
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A Little Personal History: For all their many uses, I hate getting a great deal on large bags of fresh lemons or limes only to have more than I like spoil before all have been used. And when juicing, I always want to squeeze every drop. After much trial and error, here are the best ways I’ve found to get
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Which Apples are best for cooking? Here’s a list of the best apples to use for cooking, whether pies, stuffing, desserts, etc. Jonathans and Jonagolds Honeycrisp Granny Smith Melrose Winesap Braeburn Rome Beauty Cortland Golden Delicious Northern Spy Gala
It’s often challenging to figure out how much food to buy for a recipe. Foods are sold in a variety of sizes and measurements, often not reflected in recipes. While looking on the Net for some conversion tables to help with a recipe I was preparing, I came across this great list of food measurement
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A Little Personal History: There’ve been so many times I wanted to make fried chicken, pancakes, bread, biscuits, dressing, brine, etc. yet no buttermilk in the fridge. Often, when only needing tablespoons … the idea of buying an entire carton of buttermilk just didn’t make sense. What does is to make your own buttermilk from
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Alcohol Substitutions Alcohol Substitutions Alcoholic Ingredient Description Substitution Amaretto Italian almond-flavored liqueur Almond extract. Beer or ale Various types. For light beers, substitute chicken broth, ginger ale or white grape juice. For heavier beers, use a stronger beef, chicken or mushroom broth or stock. Non-alcoholic beers may also be substituted. Brandy Liquor made of distilled wine
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A Little Personal History: Note: This how-to is still in draft, published for collaborative purposes. Have any tips to share? Visit our Facebook page “How to Cook a Great Steak” as well! There’s also our Pinterest board “How to Make a Great Steak!” for ideas we’ve yet to try. Finally, for some great steak recipes checkout https://cookwithlars.com//tag/steak/
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