Archive for May, 2009
If you’re looking to hold a dinner party, whether for your friends, family or coworkers, and you plan on having wine with dinner, you should pay attention to wine food pairing . Certain wines are excellent with certain foods. This is most often seen in fine restaurants where menus will have wine recommendations next to [...]
May 31st, 2009 | Posted in Articles | No Comments
Looking for some healthy and easy ground beef recipes that do not require a lot of time to make? Below are 3 delicious ground beef recipes that are filling and real crowd pleasers. Just because you are cooking with ground beef, does not mean it has to be unhealthy. Most of the ground beef you [...]
May 31st, 2009 | Posted in Articles | No Comments
Ingredients: * 2 tbs vegetable oil * 1/4 cup (60ml) hot chilli sauce * 1/4 cup (60ml) soy sauce, plus extra to serve * 2 (about 200g each) skinless chicken breast fillets, thinly sliced * 450g packet fresh thin hokkein noodles * 400g packet fresh stir-fry vegetables * 75g chopped roasted peanuts Method: 1. Place [...]
May 31st, 2009 | Posted in Articles | No Comments
Ingredients: * 2 tbs vegetable oil * 1/4 cup (60ml) hot chilli sauce * 1/4 cup (60ml) soy sauce, plus extra to serve * 2 (about 200g each) skinless chicken breast fillets, thinly sliced * 450g packet fresh thin hokkein noodles * 400g packet fresh stir-fry vegetables * 75g chopped roasted peanuts Method: 1. Place [...]
May 31st, 2009 | Posted in Articles | No Comments
Many of you may be asking what exactly a beer boot is. What’s the history behind them?Beer boots or Bierstiefeln in German have over a century of history and culture behind them. It is commonly believed that a general promised his troops to drink beer from his boot if they were successful in battle. When [...]
May 30th, 2009 | Posted in Articles | No Comments
For me, cooking has always been fun. I started cooking in my younger day back in Nebraska. Luckily, my mother was patient enough to teach me. For my wife, she’s glad I have fun doing it. What is your vote? Do you cook for pleasure, or necessity? If you have the right equipment, a comfortable [...]
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Organic herbs and spices add zest to your favorite dishes, and several also offer superior medicinal qualities. Some organic herbs are suited to making teas, while others are appropriate for use in perfumes. Purchasing bulk organic herbs makes the use of organic herbs and spices even more cost effective. Some organic herbs and spices are [...]
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Has this ever happened to you? You’ve been invited to a party and realize you don’t have a meal to bring. Not only that, but the party starts in an hour. What should you do? You have four options: Don’t go, and miss out on a really fun time. Show up empty-handed and explain red-faced [...]
May 30th, 2009 | Posted in Articles | No Comments
And then I bought a kitchen from heaven. Well, not really a kitchen, but a kitchenware set that meets my needs as well as that of my family. I was so delighted at how affordable it was; the set even arrived on free shipping, right at our doorstep. First off I got a ten-piece porcelain [...]
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Ham is the main dish that people all over the world cook and eat for the Easter Holidays and for other large family gatherings. Cooking Easter ham is a tradition in many family’s. The custom of cooking ham at Easter seems to go back as far as William the Conqueror. You can use a whole, [...]
May 30th, 2009 | Posted in Articles | 1 Comment