Healthy creamy dressings

For rich, creamy dressings made healthy, substitute half the mayo with Greek-style yogurt.

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Look like a star in that dinner!

Remember, y’all, it’s all about the prep. Take away the stress by doing the prep the night or day before. You’ll look like a star.

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Delicious vinaigrettes

Use a coarse microplane to shave vegetables into salads or vinaigrettes. You can create an orange-fennel dressing by adding grated fennel and orange zest to a simple vinaigrette.

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Cooking for someone important?

If you’re cooking for someone important — whether it’s your boss or a date — never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

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Roasted Vegetables

To get nice, crispy caramelization on roasted vegetables, simulate the intense heat of an industrial oven: Bring your oven up as hot as it goes, then put an empty roasting or sheet pan inside for 10 to 15 minutes. Toss the vegetables — try carrots or Brussels sprouts — with olive oil, salt and pepper, and put them on the hot pan. This method will give you the high heat you need to caramelize the sugars in the vegetables quickly.

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Smash garlic on a bag

Smash garlic cloves inside a resealable plastic bag with the back of a knife. That way, your cutting board and knife won’t smell.

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Cut Pancetta

To cut pancetta or bacon, put in the freezer for 15 minutes. This will firm up the meat and make it easier to cut.

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Browning Meat

When you’re browning meat, you should blot the surface dry with a paper towel so the meat doesn’t release moisture when it hits the hot oil. Too much moisture makes the meat steam instead of sear, and you will lose that rich brown crust.

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Boiling pasta?

Do not use oil in the water when boiling pasta: It will keep the sauce from sticking to the cooked pasta.

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Using raw onions in a salsa?

Anytime you are using raw onions in a salsa and you are not going to eat that salsa in the next 20 minutes or so, be sure to rinse the diced onions under cold running water first, then blot dry. This will rid them of sulfurous gas that can ruin fresh salsa. It’s really important in guacamole, too.

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Change the recipes!

Recipes are only a guideline, not the Bible. Feel comfortable replacing ingredients with similar ingredients that you like. If you like oregano but not thyme, use oregano.

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Cutting corn off the cob

After cutting corn off the cob, use the back side of a knife (not the blade side) to scrape the cob again to extract the sweet milk left behind. This milk adds flavor and body to any corn dish. Lay the corn horizontally on a board, then cut off the kernels. Run the back of your knife over the empty cob to extract the milk.

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Tasting the meatloaf

When making meatballs or meatloaf, you need to know how the mixture tastes before you cook it. Make a little patty and fry it in a pan like a mini hamburger. Then you can taste it and adjust the seasoning.

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Roasting chicken

Instead of placing a chicken on a roasting rack, cut thick slices of onion, put them in an oiled pan, then place the chicken on top. The onion will absorb the chicken juices. After roasting, let the chicken rest while you make a sauce with the onions by adding a little stock or water to the pan and cooking it for about 3 minutes on high heat.

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Freeze leftover sauces

For an easy weeknight meal, save and freeze leftover sauces from previous meals in ice cube trays. The cubes can be reheated in a sauté pan when you need a quick sauce.

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Chopping herbs?

When chopping herbs, toss a little salt onto the cutting board; it will keep the herbs from flying around.

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Stock in a large quantity

Always make stock in a large quantity and freeze it in plastic bags. That way, when you want to make a nice soup or boil veggies, you can simply pull the bag out of the freezer.

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Sauteing?

If you find you need more oil in the pan when sauteing, add it in a stream along the edges of the pan so that by the time the oil reaches the ingredient being cooked, it will be heated.

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Season meat

Always season meat and fish evenly; sprinkle salt and pepper as though it’s “snowing”. This will avoid clumping or ending up with too much seasoning in some areas and none in others.

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Farmers markets

If you keep it simple and buy ingredients at farmers markets, the food can pretty much take care of itself. Do as little as possible to the food; consider leaving out an ingredient and relying on instinct.

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For deep fry

When you deep fry, hold each piece of food with long tongs as you add it to the oil. Hold it just below the oil’s surface for five seconds before releasing it. This will seal the exterior and stop it from sticking to the pot or the other food.

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How to store spices

Store spices in a cool, dark place, not above your stove. Humidity, light and heat will cause herbs and spices to lose their flavor.

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Baking Temperature

The smaller the item, the higher the baking temperature. For example, we bake mini chocolate chip-toffee cookies at 500 degrees F for only 4 minutes. Perfect end result!

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Freshen your garbage can

Freshen your garbage can. Hose down your garbage can, dry it, and then sprinkle a few tablespoons of baking soda on the bottom to keep it stink free.

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Freshen your dishwasher

Freshen your dishwasher! It’s probably never occurred that your dishwasher needs to be cleaned since it’s constantly cleaning itself and the dishes every time you run it, but every so often it’s a good idea to freshen it up. Just run a cycle with vinegar and then do another for rinsing!

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Cleaning your garbage disposal

Clean the garbage disposal with lemon and vinegar. Tons of gunk goes through your garbage disposal so it’s a pretty good idea to keep it clean which can easily be done with some lemons and vinegar. Just slice the lemons into small pieces and then freeze the slices in vinegar. Run the lemon-vinegar cubes through your disposal every few days to keep it fresh.

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Clean your oven with baking soda

Clean your oven with baking soda. With some baking soda, water and a touch of elbow grease, you can easily clean your oven.

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Silverware and knives with rust?

Clean your silverware and knives with rust spots using lemon juice. Eventually, stainless steel silverware and cooking knives can begin to get spotty with rust, especially if you use the dishwasher to clean them. Just take your rusted silverware or cooking knives and soak them in a glass of lemon juice for a couple of minutes. The rust will loosen up, making it easy to scrub away… just make sure to hand dry it afterwards!

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Clean stainless steel with flour

Clean stainless steel with flour. Don’t want to use a glass cleaner due to chemicals? Mother nature  has come up with a simple solution for you. Just apply some dry flour onto a microfiber cloth and buff it into your stainless steel appliance, sink or counter. Then rinse it off and the surface should shine like new.

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Clean your Stainless steel

Clean your Stainless steel appliances with glass cleaner. Glass cleaner will give your stainless steel sink and appliances the same streak-free shine that it does for glass and mirrors. Using a glass cleaner will also help to remove any fingerprints. Just spray a few times on a microfiber cloth and make like the karate kid by ‘waxing on, waxing off’. Rinse thoroughly and dry your towel.

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