K-Cup®s have become super popular. Not surprising, since they’re quick and easy to use in our rushed society. With over 10 million pods sold each year, this non-recyclable #7 plastic is also quickly becoming a large scale waste problem.
Green Mountain introduced a coffee pod last fall using […]
There are three ways that should be mentioned on the process of how to soften butter. There is fast, faster and fastest.
So, for those with varying levels of patience, we will mention all three ways to soften butter. After all, sometimes you need a warm chocolate chip cookie and you need […]For an impressive display that will shock friends or family, try making these April fools oranges. They look a bit unusual and will make an impression on April 1st.
Make use of the entire orange by recycling (just this once) the rind once before it hits the compost pile.
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Question:
What is
charcuterie?
What is a charcuterie board?
How do you assemble charcuterie?
Answer:
Charcuterie is a
type of cooking that was developed to preserve
meats (mostly pork) before refrigeration was
readily available. This French word is used to
describe or include any meats that are smoked,
cured or otherwise cooked. Meats in this
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Peeling hard boiled eggs should not be a frustrating task, yet cracking boiled eggs to end up with not much more than yolks is not very rewarding. This happens when the egg membrane sticks to the white of the egg, so as the shell is cracked and removed parts of the egg […]
Question:
How much ham per person should be served at
dinner?
Answer:
When deciding how
large of a ham to buy, it is good to know how much
ham is considered a serving.
How much ham per person to serve depends on the type of ham […]
Question:
Can you use a cast iron pan on a glass top stove?
Answer:
It’s no secret that we think that old cast iron pans are the bomb, but what if you have a glass top stove? Glass top stoves look beautiful when they are new and clean, but they can be rather easily scratched […]
Instant mashed potatoes – what are they anyways?
Packages like these, where you add boiling water and almost instantly have a bowl full of something that very closely resembles actual mashed potatoes, are almost like a magic trick. Some people hate them and some people love them, but most agree that they […]
Question:
What is a country ham?
For that matter, what is a city ham?
Answer:
A country ham has to
do with the process on how the ham was made.
Country
hams are seasoned and then slowly smoked, giving
them an intense flavor.
Country hams are dry-cured, or rubbed […]
The two readily available types of brown sugar are light brown and dark brown.
So, what’s the difference between light
brown and dark brown sugar?
The difference between light brown sugar and dark
brown sugar is the amount of molasses that has
been added to the raw sugar in the final stages of
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Should you eat green potatoes? All the
scoop on green potatoes.
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