We all know the struggle of getting our kids to eat healthy. Preparing veggies in a way that looks appealing addresses one of the holdups that kids have when seeing vegetables on the dinner table. Here are some great ideas to change the way your kids look healthy foods by using these veggie cutting techniques. What Kind Of Cutting Tools You Can Use Out of all the … [Read more...]
Ways to Hide Veggies in Plain Sight
If you have kids, the last thing you probably know is how hard it is to get them to eat veggies with their food. Here are the top tips that will give you more reason to enjoy veggies and be glad that your kiddos are enjoying them too. Why Do Kids Hate Veggies? Little kids are fearless when it comes to eating candies and other colorful items that aren't healthy for them. … [Read more...]
Types of Fellow Tea Kettles
We've been following Fellow tea kettles and feel that you should know about the different models that they offer. While they've become known for their precision gooseneck design, their effectiveness in boiling water for your favorite tea or pour over coffee seems to be unmatched. With a relatively short time to have hit the kettle scene, Fellow has continuously been … [Read more...]
Fellow Kettles [Who Are They] Should You Buy One?
Who Is Fellow? Tea kettles are pretty hot on the market these days with a younger face added to this growing trend to home brewing with coffee and tea. This article will introduce you to how you can make tea with the newest kid of the block- Fellow Tea Kettles. For those of you who don't know, Fellow was founded by Jake Miller as a result of a Kickstarter campaign in … [Read more...]
Kitchen Knife Sets – Tested & Rated
Choosing the best set of knives for your kitchen can be a tricky problem. You can save time and money by simply purchasing a premade knife set. The potential downside to this is that you can end up with a cheap collection of knives that serve better as a decoration than for cutting. Your knives are the backbone of your kitchen, and they deserve careful consideration, … [Read more...]
Ways to Tenderize Meat
As meat prices continue to rise, it is valuable to know how to use what in the past were called utility cuts. Which is a nice way to say if you don’t handle them properly you will be chewing them for a couple days. But when you do use the right process they will give you some of the best tasting meat you can cook up for friends and family. For that reason some utility cuts from … [Read more...]
Cooking Temperatures for Meat, Seafood, Candy & Baking
In this guide we will breakdown everything you need to know about basic heat reactions and cooking doneness temperatures for meat, seafood, baked goods and candy. Distilled down to the essence, cooking is applying heat to organic material to alter it in a positive way. Hopefully positive, although we know that too much heat can lead to disaster. How and why heat affects … [Read more...]
Electric Skillet Cooking
Depending on your generation, electric skillets may have played differing roles in the cooking you grew up with. First hitting the market in 1953, Sunbeam was setting the trend in the electric kitchen. The most notable feature of the electric skillet is that it offers a thermostatically controlled hot cooking surface. To this day, most ranges and cooking surfaces have … [Read more...]