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DIY Tip for Perfectly Drizzled Chocolate
Anyone can dunk strawberries and other fruit into melted chocolate. It is easy and fast to do and makes a great looking party appetizer. But perfectly drizzled chocolate looks so much more professional. These cooking tips will make sure that your drizzled chocolate will rival those on any dessert tray. Growing strawberries is much easier than […]
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Household Tips to Make your Life Easier
My favorite Household tips I thought it would be fun to compile a page of some of my favorite household tips that will save you time and money. All of these are easy to do and most re-purpose commonly found household items. Time is money as they say and no one seems to have […]
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Growing Oregano – From The Planter to Italian Dishes
Most people who cook will have used the dried version of oregano, but growing oregano is easy. If you love the flavor of garden fresh taste in your recipes, be sure to try growing herbs. Oregano is a herb used in many international dishes, but is best known for use in Italian recipes. Oregano is […]
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Grating Soft Cheese – Today easy Kitchen Tip
Grating Soft Cheese is easy if you follow this tip Have you ever tried to grate Mozzarella or other soft cheeses and found it difficult to do? I have and the cheese seems to sort of “wobble” and this makes it hard to grate it. Well this does not have to be a problem at […]
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Cooking Tip – Easy Diced Garlic – Tenderized!
This easy diced garlic is a great cooking tip that will help with that task. It can take quite a bit of time, too, when you need to mince a lot of garlic at once. Garlic…ahhhh, who doesn’t love its flavor. If a recipe call for some of it, I usually double it. But the cloves […]
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How to Keep An avocado From Turning Brown
Helpful tips to keep an Avocado from turning brown. I love avocados. I eat them most days for lunch and love them on salads. But because they are high in calories, I do try to limit the amount of one that I use. Invariably they seem to turn brown. I did a bit of […]
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Left Over Lemons – Freezing and Grating is the Trick
What can you do with left over lemons? Often times a recipe will call for just a tablespoon or two of lemon juice. I hate to waste the left over lemons. (I even use the peels and used flesh on my compost heap.) I always grate the skin, but then I am left with the […]
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35+ Creative Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide is one of those things which people have in their bathroom, that they use primarily for healing wounds and cuts. It is a shame to save this handy bottle for just medical uses, when there are so many more uses for it around the home. And it is so inexpensive too! Hydrogen peroxide […]
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40+ Kitchen Tips to Make your Life Easier
We spend so much time in the kitchen and not all of it is fun. And yet there are so many things that will make what might be heavy duty chores into something much easier. I thought it might be useful to share some of my favorite tips for making life in the kitchen easier. […]
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DIY Vegetable Oil Sprayer – No Need for Pam
Pam is an easy way to cook without adding a lot of oil to a pan, but it is full of chemicals and the aerosol is not so great for the environment. The solution is simple – make your own vegetable oil sprayer. Using an oil sprayer is a great way to save calories on […]
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Fiddlehead Ferns – Culinary Delight from the Ostrich Fern
I was born in Maine, and one of my fondest memories is the collection of fiddlehead ferns each spring. Even though I have moved away, each year my family boxes up a whole bushel of them and sends them to me by priority mail here in NC. It’s always a special day when that box […]
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Ways to Use Grapefruit
Now, I like grapefruit as much as the next person, but I only need a few each week to keep me happy. Imagine my dismay when I got home from the grocery store the other day, with what I thought was a large bag of oranges, only to discover (after I had cut open the […]
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The Secret To Perfect Mashed Potatoes – the ultimate comfort food
Mashed potatoes are the ultimate comfort food. We all love them, don’t we? I get asked often for cooking tips, but when people taste my mashed potatoes, they always want to know my tip for making them. So…drum roll… Here we go: How to make the perfect mashed potatoes, step by step. For me, the ultimate […]
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Grapefruit Juice Ice Cubes
What could be better in a grapefruit based cocktail than these grapefruit ice cubes? What do you do when you have a huge bag of grapefruit that you thought were oranges? Why juice some of them and freeze the juice to use later, suggests a fan of the Gardening Cook on Facebook – Violet Roew. […]
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Chinese Five Spice Powder – Make your Own DIY
Chinese Five Spice powder is often called for in recipes but can sometimes be hard to find at the store or you may have run out of it. No problem! Make your own. Chinese Five Spice Powder is Easy to make One of the great thing about making your own is that spices lose their […]
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Lenox Spice Jars – Cats of Distinction – A Collector’s Item
I have always loved cats, to the point where I even purchased a set of Lenox spice jars called “Cats of Distinction.” Anyone who looks on eBay, Ruby Lane, or other sites that sell vintage items will see old kitchen items that you may have used at some point being offered for sale. Today, I […]
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Best Household Tips – Make your Home Run Smoothly
This is my latest group of best household tips to make your home run more smoothly and efficiently. I am an orderly person. Organization seems to be my middle name. I am always looking for tips to make things easier for me to manage at home. Some tips help to make your cleaning jobs easier. […]
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Gardening Cooking Humor – Collection of Jokes and Funnies
Every now and then, it is fun to just let your hair down and enjoy a bit of gardening and cooking humor. These graphics and jokes are a way for us to lighten your day. Life should not always be too serious. The Gardening Cook agrees. So we have made a collection of some of […]
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Butter and Margarine Conversion Chart
This handy butter Margarine conversion chart will show you how much oil to use in the recipe instead of the butter that is called for. I keep a very well stocked pantry, but there are still times when I am out of something that I needed for a recipe, only to discover that I am […]
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Food Art – Artistic License in the Kitchen
Food carving and creative food art is something that requires a great deal of patience to end up with just the perfect result. I love seeing what creative people can do with food to make it into an art form. Food is soft and this makes it the perfect medium for carving into life-like objects. […]
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Home made sweet and sour mix
Many drink recipes ask for a sweet and sour mix. This home made version is perfect for those who don’t want a very sweet mix. There are lots of commercial sweet and sour mixes available for purchase in grocery stores and where liquor is sold. But most of those are too sweet for my liking. […]
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Egg Replacements For Vegan Diets
There are plenty of egg replacements but first you have to examine your recipe to find out what you want the egg to do. Eggs have many different uses. Sometimes they are used for binding ingredients, sometimes for making a recipe lighter and fluffier, ) and sometimes just for the taste of the egg itself. […]
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DIY Stainless Steel Cleaner – Today’s Household tip
This easy recipe makes a super DIY stainless steel cleaner at a fraction of the price of a retail produce. There is nothing quite like the look of stainless steel appliances in a kitchen. They are very popular right now and most kitchens seem to have them. But one of the problems associated with them […]
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Easy DIY Jar Opener – Just use a Rubber Band – Today’s Tip
Food manufacturers seem to think that all home cooks have muscles to spare! This easy DIY jar opener shows them I mean business without heading to the gym before opening their jars! The older I get, the more I start to believe that some jar lids were just not meant to be opened. Some just […]
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Crock Pot Timer – Today’s cooking Tip for easy breakfast
Readers of the recipes on my blog know that I love my slow cooker. Today, I have another love to tell you about – A crock pot timer. Have you ever found a great crock pot recipe for breakfast but thought “I’d have to get up in the middle of the night to get it […]
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Devein Shrimp – Easy How To Cooking Project
Learning how to devein shrimp is a necessary cooking tip for those who love to cook with shrimp. It’s the final step to make sure that your finished dish looks clean and restaurant quality. Sometimes this may have been done for you by the retailer where you purchased them but more often, you will need […]