How to make simple syrup
Arrival of fresh spring produce means easy cooking
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Recipes or not? Which way works better? (2)
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article last week, “A Shift to Recipe-Less Cooking.” It suggests that people are moving away from the rigid prescriptions of recipes, but also notes that many prospective home cooks don’t know the basics. What do you think?
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How to make simple syrup (0)
Simple syrup is simple both in composition and execution. (You remember how to boil water, right?) Once made, you can use simple syrup to sweeten coffee or tea (no grit!) or make lemonade or limeade. It also works in sweet cocktails, such as margaritas.
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Arrival of fresh spring produce means easy cooking (0)
Spring vegetables mean quick work in the kitchen, wonderfully delicious meals on the table and the taste and cost benefits of food when in season. Try these tips for some widely available and usually plentiful fresh spring produce selections.
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Site gives recipes, pointers on saving money (0)
If you know the basics of cooking (and I hope you know many of them from our How-To category or Cooking Basics tag archive) and you’re looking to save money, you might want to check out Cooking for Good. As you can see from its logo at right, Cooking for Good is dedicated to saving [...]
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News: Ideas for saving, storing, eating (0)
Put freezer to use. Get the most out of your food by getting the most out of your freezer, and it’s got to be the simplest way to preserve food. Mark Bittman leads the way. (New York Times)
Real food cheaper. Bittman also underscores that eating healthy real food can be cheaper than junk (NY Times) [...]
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Where there’s heat, there can be fire (0)
It’s easy to forget how easy it is to start a fire when cooking, which may be why cooking is the number-one cause of home fires. Here are ideas on not causing one.
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Make your own ‘bagged salad’ quickly and easily (4)
When time is critical to getting dinner on the table, those prewashed, bagged salads look awfully tempting. But you can make your own that will last just as long. Here’s how.
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