Tips and Tricks for Cooking Soft-boiled, Medium-boiled and Hard-boiled Eggs
Protein-rich pantry staple, eggs can be cooked in so many ways and boiling in the shell is only one of them. But did you …
Cooking Basics
How to Prepare Fresh Egg Noodles
Are you a fan of egg noodles? We are. And we prefer fresh to dried. We like the springiness and chewiness that are lost …
Cooking with Chilies
Often referred to as chili pepper, chili and pepper belong to different plant genera. Chilies, berries of genus Capsicum …
How to Cook, Lesson 5: Basic Cooking Methods
If you've been following this series, by this time, you know your ingredients, you have gathered your essential kitchen …
How to Cook, Lesson 4: Prepping Vegetables
Prepping vegetables for cooking consists of two parts: cleaning (peeling, stringing, deseeding, etcetera) and cutting …
How to Cook, Lesson 3: Chicken, Meat and Seafood
If you go to the market or grocery, chicken, pork and beef are often sold by cut. There are cases though when labels are …
How to Cook, Lesson 2: Five Essential Kitchen Tools
To cook successfully, there are five essential kitchen tools that you need. Yes, just five. Not five pieces but five …
How to Cook, Lesson 1: Know Your Ingredients
The best way to learn about ingredients is to go to the market and see the various cuts of chicken, pork and beef, and …
What is blanching and how is it different from parboiling?
Whether blanching or parboiling, food undergoes the same process -- getting plunged in boiling water. Some say that the …
How to Chop, Illustrated
When one or more ingredient in a recipe says "chopped", it is presumed that it means cutting the ingredient or …
How to boil water, how to steam food and why it is important to know
I was going to write two separate posts about boiling and steaming but lumping them together seems to make more sense. …
How to Cook Perfect Scrambled Eggs
Contrary to popular belief, cooking scrambled eggs isn't as simple as pouring beaten eggs into a hot pan and waiting for …