10 Convenient Ways To Eliminate Food Poisoning With Your Microwave

Microwave ovens can play an important role at mealtime, butspecial care must be taken when cooking or reheating meat,poultry, fish, and eggs to make sure they are preparedsafely. Microwave ovens can c...Full Article

10 Wide Open Tips For Food Safety In The Great Outdoors

Hiking, camping, and boating are good activities for activepeople and families. However, if the food isnt handledcorrectly, food-borne illness can be an unwelcome souvenir.1. Choose foods that are lig...Full Article

10 Simple Ways To Safely Store Food

Storing foods can present its own set of problems. Anddifferent types of foods have different storage requirementsto prevent bacteria from setting in. Heres some tips toprotect your family and yoursel...Full Article

How to Make Homemade Ice Cream (Without an Ice Cream Maker!)

COLFAX, WISCONSIN - June is Dairy Month and what better way to celebrate than with homemade ice cream?When I was growing up on our small family dairy farm in west central Wisconsin 40 years ago, my da...Full Article

What Are Scoville Units?

To understand what a Scoville Unit is, one must understand what they measure. All hot peppers contain capsaicinoids, natural substances that produce a burning sensation in the mouth, causing the eyes ...Full Article

Seasoning An Oven

Untreated cast iron rusts, especially around water. To prevent metal from oxidizing in the presence of moisture, cast iron requires a process called ?seasoning?. Seasoning is simply the procedure of...Full Article

Bacteria and Food-borne Diseases

Types of BacteriaBacteria are all around us, in the air, water, ground, on our skin and in our bodies. They are classified in a variety of ways, but for our purpose we can categorize them in a more ba...Full Article

Whats the Thick on Roux? Thickening Soups and Sauces

Soups and sauces can be thickened in a variety of ways. A sauce must the thick enough to cling to the food, but not so thick it stands up on its own. Starches are by far the most common thickening age...Full Article

Season Your Pans for Non Stick Cooking

Nothing is more frustrating than trying to cook a delicious meal and having it stick to the bottom of the pan. A well season or cured pan will make cooking more fun, easier to clean and create better ...Full Article

Cooking Lobster at Home

Lobster has always be one of those extravagant meals which few people ever try because of the high cost. With restaurants paying thirty dollars a pound, by the time they put their markup on it, youre ...Full Article

Perfect Picnics - Frugal Food Safety Tips

Summer is finally here and for a lot of us that means heading out to the lake or to the park for a picnic with friends or family.Unfortunately, if were not careful when we plan, transport and serve th...Full Article

50% Less Cooking

50% Less Cookingwithout hitting the fast food button! Dont you just cringe when some clever kitchen type tells you what you could be doing with the leftovers in the fridge, when its plainly obvious th...Full Article

6 Steps to Grill the Perfect Steak

Theres nothing better than a nicely grilled juicy steak.But how come I cant duplicate that restaurant, expensive, juicy, melt-in-your mouth, perfectly grilled steak?Well, I found out how to grill stea...Full Article

Save Time in the Kitchen - Cook Pasta the Way Restaurant Chefs Do

Have you ever wondered how a restaurant can get a dish of pasta to your table in about four minutes when you know it takes ten minutes just to cook the pasta? Does the water on their stoves boil at a ...Full Article

Peppercorns & Ways To Use Them

New and exciting varieties of peppercorns are becoming available to chefs everywhere. Pre-ground pepper out of the tin no longer provides the complex flavors and versatility that great cooks everywher...Full Article

10 Smart Shopping Tips To Protect Your Family From Getting Sick

Prevention of food poisoning starts with your trip to thesupermarket. Heres how to start off safely.1. Pick up your packaged and canned foods first. Buy cansand jars that look perfect. Dont buy canned...Full Article

Cooking Filet Mignon

Filet mignon is French, of course, with filet meaning thick slice and mignon meaning dainty. Filet mignon comes from the small end of the tenderloin (called the short loin) which is found on the back...Full Article

Caring For Your Wooden Cutting Board

Researchers have found that bacteria have a tougher time surviving on wood cutting boards. However, plastic cutting boards are less porous than wood, making it less likely to harbor bacteria over a l...Full Article

Cut The Take Out

A long hard day at work. You get home and need dinner. Nothing in the fridge, nothing in the cupboard. Take-out again. The wallet just wont comply much longer.Re-wind.A long hard day at work (sorry ca...Full Article

Dutch Oven Cooking Basics

Pioneer CookingWhen you think of a cast iron Dutch oven, what comes to your mind? Pioneer cooking? Stews over the open fire?Of coarse both are true, but they are still very much in use today and as fo...Full Article