Did You Know – Cooking Tips #2
Adding a little vinegar to the water when cooking cabbage, cauliflower, and other crucifers will cut down on odors in the house.
Perk up soggy lettuce by soaking it for 10 minutes in a mixture of lemon juice and cold water.
Eggshells can easily be removed from hard boiled eggs if the eggs are quickly rinsed in cold water with ice cubes after they are boiled.
Keep bean sprouts crisp up to 5 days by submerging them in a container with some water and then refrigerating them.
When trying to reduce your fat intake, buy the leanest cuts of meat you can find and cut away any chunks of fat.
To make your meat tender, pound the meat lightly with a mallet or rolling pin, pierce it with a fork, sprinkle lightly with meat tenderizer and cover it in a marinade. Refrigerate for about 20 minutes and you’ll have tender meat.
Marinating meat is easy if you use a ziplock plastic bag. The meat stays covered in the marinade and it’s easy to turn and rearrange.
It’s easier to thinly slice meat if it’s partially frozen.
Tomatoes added to roasts will help to naturally tenderize them.
Cutting meat across the grain makes the meat easier to eat and have a better appearance.
SOURCE: Ron Douglass Book “America’s Most Wanted Recipes”
http://www.InDianesKitchen.com
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Categories: Beef, Did You Know, Eggs, Tomatoes, Vegetables/Slaws/Salads, Vinegar
Interesting
Thank you Sheree
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Thank you Derrick!
Thanks for all these great tipps. Best wishes, Michael
You’re welcome Michael!
When I was in a hostel during my high school years, we could always smell the cabbage we would get for lunch long before we got into the dining hall — I wish they knew about the vinegar tip! And marinating meat in a ziplock plastic bag is one of our best camping tricks (we always do that with our meat when we go camping)!
Cabbage smell definitely can travel. I always marinate in the bags too, so easy.
You are truly the best!!!
No you are but thank you!
Good tips. I need the one for peeling eggs! And anything to reduce cauliflower odor is appreciated!
Thank you Ab! I still swear by the egg steamer for easy to peel eggs. We still plunge them in the ice water and they peel perfectly.
I was bad at peeling hard-boiled eggs. Too many shells were left after I cracked them on the plate.
A little calcium never hurt anyone. I never left the shell on, I destroyed the egg white! 🤣
No, it’s good for you … birds eat the shell after their young hatch as it is good for them.
Oh wow, I didn’t know that!
Yes, geese and ducks and I was at Heritage Park monitoring the Mama Goose and saw it for myself. She had all the eggs in a nest, 9 or 10 I believe, I was there a day or two later, the Mama was gone, all the eggs were gone, the empty nest was there with no trace of eggshells from the hatched chicks!
How strange I hope something didn’t get to them!
I think that she ate the shells so predators didn’t know they hatched. That’s what I suspect from researching it a little. I was worried because I visited them on Easter Sunday and on Easter Monday, we had snow, several inches and it got very cold. I didn’t get up there right away to see them and was worried when they were gone without a trace, so went up again a few days later, before work and they were there and no other goslings families so it had to be them.
That’s good!
Great tips ! That’s an interesting one about tomatoes and roasts. I will have to try that this winter when I next make a roast.
Thank you Susan 🥰
I hate trying to get eggshells off without tearing up the egg. I’ll give that tip a try!
I hate when they do that. I have found the best way to peel them good is to steam them and still do the ice water.
Great tips, Diane!
Thank you Janet!
Thanks for the tips!
You’re welcome!