Hi Foodies!
First of all, I apologize for not posting a January Tip. It was a very busy month!
I will post two February Tips to make up for it.
TIP NUMBER ONE:
At Christmas time, my Aunt Tanya gave me this wonderful cooking hand book called Stuff Every Cook Should Know. It is by Joy Manning and it is BURSTING with great tips. When reading it this morning, I read about how to know if your eggs have gone bad. Eggs usually keep for 5 weeks when refrigerated. If you are not sure if they have gone bad, put one in a bowl of cold water. It has gone bad if it floats to the surface.
TIP NUMBER TWO:
Have you noticed that in all those cooking competition shows a contestant almost ALWAYS gets penalized for lack of seasoning? Well, if I were ever on one of those shows, I would want to know everything possible so I wouldn’t get it trouble for THAT.
In Stuff Every Cook Should Know, Joy Manning said, “…the popular belief that salt is unhealthy. But more than 80 percent of the salt Americans consume is packaged food. If your diet is mostly home cooked, you probably don’t need to worry about salt unless your doctor tells you to.”
When cooking, follow these simple steps to ensure you have a well-seasoned dish:
- Salt the ingredient BEFORE you cook it, ESPECIALLY when it is raw meat. When seasoning raw meat, Joy Manning recommends using 1 teaspoon of salt for every pound of meat.
- Add salt to your finished dish. Be sure to ALWAYS taste your food and add the seasoning you feel is necessary.
- Joy Manning also says it is a good idea to add acid (a little bit of vinegar, lemon, or lime) to your dish after salting it.