Chinese Cooking Techniques

The variety of Chinese food dishes and Chinese food recipes available today is wider than in any previous decade. One can easily find Chinese food recipes for Chop Suey, which is not an authentic Chinese dish, along side of Hunan Beef. It is interesting to note that what many refer to as Chow Mein noodles

Grandma’s Banana Spice Cake With Sea-Foam Frosting

Back in the early 1980’s my grandmother spent a Saturday afternoon teaching me how to make her banana spice cake. I am not sure why they call it sea-foam frosting, but I can tell you…it does taste delicious! What I really enjoy about this recipe is the right combination of sweet buttermilk, ripe bananas, along

Practice Your Baking Skills With Cake Baking Games!

Cake baking games have recently become very popular and are being played by both children and adults. Cake baking games are games that allow you to bake virtual cakes (and other pastries) without demolishing the kitchen and its surroundings, which can be a great idea if you’re just starting your baking career. Children find cake

A Guide to Wedding Cake Frosting

Next to the bridal gown, the wedding cake is perhaps the most detail intensive element of planning your event. It will take days if not weeks before the future bride can choose the exact design and color of her cake. On top of this, it may take her forever to decide the cake frosting to

Tres Leches Cake Recipe

If you are looking to make an authentic and tasty Mexican dessert, this tres leches cake recipe is what you are looking for. It makes an excellent dessert after a great Mexican dinner or on its own anytime of the day. It is based on authentic Mexican cooking and is fun to make. Ingredients for

Too Much Chocolate Cake

“Eating breakfast with desserts fights obesity” Scientists have found that people who eat their largest daily meal at breakfast are far more likely to lose weight and waistline circumference than those who eat a large dinner. They also had significantly lower levels of insulin, glucose, and triglycerides throughout the day, translating into a lower risk

Best Ever Homemade Lemon Cheesecake

For some reason the humble cheesecake is something that every aspiring home chef seems to have troubles with at one point or another. Common problems include large cracks, burned top, lumpy filling, collapsed centers and the amazing shrinking cheesecake (cake shrinks around the outside). All of these problems tend to go away when the cheesecake

Baking Bread – Cuban Pan De Ajo (Cuban Garlic Bread)

Last week I went down to Miami for the first time to sample and report on the vibrant Miami food community. What I found was a food community full of amazing exile stories, dangerous ocean crossing adventures, and wonderful snapshots of great Miami food fare, especially Cuban food. Along with my staffer Emily, we were especially smitten with the smell,

Webkinz Recipes

Webkinz recipes are a great way to enhance the fun of the online Webkinz experience. Pet owners must provide great food and interesting recipes to keep their new pets happy. Just like real pets, these stuffed animals need a good home, a friendly and helpful owner and above all this, delicious food. Owners are always on the

How to Make Flying Saucer Bread

This recipe can not be found in any cookbook. In fact, I coined the name for this bread myself. It is bread that I enjoyed when eating bologna sandwiches during my early school days growing up in New Jersey. I first came across this strange bread during school lunch break. Across from my school, in

Easy Elderberry and Strawberry Jam

I had what I call, this great idea today while eating my peanut butter and elderberry jam sandwich. I’m not much for food preparation. I like to cook and I like to entertain but I’ll tell you what, processing fruits for canning is a royal pain. It took forever to strain those chokecherries. Granted the

Cooking Grilled Cheese on an Electric Griddle

Few things can cure an upset stomach or the rainy day blues quite like the combination of grilled cheese and a big bowl of tomato soup. Though it is a relatively simple dish to prepare, it remains a standard American comfort food throughout the years. While many know how to make a grilled cheese sandwich,

Healthy Meals For Kids At Restaurants

It’s usually challenging to feed your kids healthy foods especially when you like dining out. Although, it’s challenging, it’s not impossible. All you need to do is to be choosy of the foods that you give your child when you are in a restaurant. Some of the best foods that you should give your child

Webkinz Recipes and More!

Are your children having trouble figuring out recipes on Webkinz World? These unique toys that allow children and young teens to create an online pet can be much more complicated than you’d expect. Despite tutorials on the main Webkinz site, and despite numerous websites devoted to these adorable pets, it can be difficult to figure

Quick Facts About Panini Grills

Weary of eating precisely the same boring sandwiches all the time, each single week? Why not mash them up and opt for something unique every time you really feel like eating a sandwich. People often declare that varying stuff up makes living much more interesting. Therefore, why not have yourself a Panini maker and cook

How To Prepare A Speech Using The Hamburger Sandwich Approach

“Help! I have to give a speech. What do I do?” my business colleague asked me. Business people are asked frequently to speak in front of a group. New authors must speak to organizations and businesses so that they can promote their books. Speaking in front of an audience can be scary if it is

How To Create Healthy Powerhouse Sandwich Recipes

Making healthy sandwiches allows you the opportunity to utilize your creative talents in the kitchen once again. Sandwiches can be created as an entire meal, providing all the nutrients necessary for your healthy living. To create a healthy powerhouse sandwich, use your imagination, by including herbs such as fresh basil leaves, cilantro or fresh parsley.

3 Must-Try Campfire Sandwiches For Your Next Outdoor Trip

Whenever you go camping, you should always aim for easy-to-cook or easy-to-prepare meals that will fill you and give you energy for outdoor activities. Sandwiches are simply a great choice because they’re grab and go, perfect for a day of hiking or exploring the woods. But this time, try something new other than the plain

Toasted Sandwich Maker – Mario Batali Panini Maker

The dimensions of the Mario Batali Panini Grill and Press is 22.5 x 12.3 inches and it weighs 15 pounds. This was one of the largest Panini makers and would be good for preparing quick simple meals for a family and reviews claimed a high quality item that was easy to clean. A Toasted sandwich

Toasted Sandwich Maker FAQ

For people who already own a toasted sandwich maker, this article will be of little relevance. Rather this FAQ is aimed at people who do not currently own one. It may be useful in helping them decide whether this sort of kitchenware will be useful or not. What is a toasted sandwich maker? Toasted sandwich

Panini Sandwich Recipes

Panini sandwiches are famous for being healthy and delicious. They are your best substitute for those fatty, high-calorie sandwiches you usually eat. You no longer have to worry about putting on extra weight or ruining your diet since you can always include healthy ingredients of your choice in your panini sandwiches. One of the best

Toby Keith Eat Your Heart Out Sandwich (A New Sandwich Recipe)

If you are a Toby Keith fan you probably know there is a chain of restaurants named after his hit single, “I love this Bar.” If you are out in Las Vegas you will find he has one in Harrah’s Casino. One of the items on his menu is considered by most who visit to

Spicing Up a Grilled Cheese Sandwich

My mom recently had the flu. As she was recovering one of the things she most wanted was a grilled cheese sandwich. I know my own kids have often ordered grilled cheese sandwiches when we go out to coffee shops for dinner. And almost all restaurants have grilled cheese sandwiches on their children’s menu. I

Karabij – A Middle Eastern Cookie

Karabij is a popular Middle Eastern cookie served with Natef. Natef is a special white cream used for dipping with Karabij. Karabij are one element in the Middle Eastern cookies family, which in turn is a class of Arabic sweets. It is a cookie made of semolina dough, which makes it very delicate and easy

The History of Cupcakes

While no one is quite certain where cupcakes came from, it is known that they made an appearance in the United States sometime in the 19th Century. Called Fairy Cakes in the United Kingdom, cupcakes revolutionized how cake was made and mothers across the land lauded the blessing. Prior to the introduction of the cupcake

Make Some Healthy Muffin Recipes for Kids

Kids usually love to indulge in desserts. Although, you might want to keep your children away from eating sweets regularly due to bad calories attached, you can always make some healthy desserts. One of every kid’s most favorite sweets is undoubtedly the Muffins. So, we bring to you a very interesting and unhealthy muffin recipe

Pros and Cons of the Cookie Diet

You may be amazed at the thought of hogging on cookies, like the commercial shows its models doing, to shed flab and if it actually did, what a wonderfully yummy way to shape up! However, market reports about thyroid patients following the cookie diet created by Dr. Siegal suggest that these individuals with serious weight

Never-Fail Shortbread Cookies

This recipe gives you crumbling, melt in your mouth shortbread cookies. It requires that you make a dough and refrigerate it at least one hour before baking, so allow for enough time to bake these cookies. First, prepare the dough. Ingredients you will need: 1 cup unsalted butter (not margarine), softened to room temperature ½

The Foods You Eat Can Change Your Skin Colour

In case you haven’t heard, you are what you eat. Perhaps you won’t turn into a chocolate chip cookie, but there are certain foods that can increase or decrease your melanin production. Melanin activates the pigmentation of your skin, making in darker when more melanin is being produced by the body. So, depending on the

Flour – The Foundation For High-Quality Baking

Baking isn’t a secret art that only a chosen few get to experience. Anyone can become a great baker with time and practice. Aside from having good equipment to work with, having top quality ingredients is key. In addition, understanding what role your ingredients play is also important. If you are baking something, odds are

White Chocolate Alternative

Not only have I had success with using carob chips and powder to appease my husband’s allergy to chocolate, but I’ve also enjoyed substituting yogurt chips for recipes calling for white chocolate chips. By U.S. law white chocolate must contain at least twenty percent cocoa butter. So if you are allergic to chocolate, you can’t

Drinking a Nice Hot Chocolate is a Great Way to Take Off the Chill

Most people in just about every corner of the world take pleasure in sitting back with a nice warm mug of hot chocolate at some time or other during the course of a year. While some enjoy the warm chocolate drink often, others only imbibe occasionally, perhaps as the weather turns cold or as the

Fun Facts About Chocolate

There are so many weird and wonderful fun facts about chocolate, it’s difficult to know which to include and which to omit because of space considerations. First of all, the Mayans used cacao beans as currency as they believed that they were more valuable than gold dust. They controlled the production of beans so that

Oatmeal Carrot Raisin Cookie Recipe

Cookies have been around for many centuries. There are many different versions from the early days of baking. They have evolved from what were then called flat “twice” baked biscuits, or savory biscuits. Many different cultures and civilizations have tried the art of cookie baking. Some were more of a hard flat bread, which eventually

Oatmeal and Mini Chip Crisps: The Easiest Cookies Ever

For years, I stored my stand electric mixer in the back of a kitchen cupboard. To retrieve the mixer, I had to kneel on the floor, reach into a dark corner, and drag the mixer forward without hitting or damaging anything. Retrieving the mixer was hard on my back, and made me reluctant to use

Quick and Easy Cookie Recipes For Your Toddler

Let’s face it – no matter how much we want our kids to stay away from sweets, they will always crave for treats like cookies, cake and ice cream. As long as they’re eating nutritious ad balanced meals, there’s nothing wrong with giving them sugar for snacks from time to time. You could even involve

Pros and Cons of Eating Chocolates

Hot chocolate, chocolate cake, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate brownies, and the list goes on forever, especially for chocolate lovers but do you really know what these chocolate delicacies can do for your health? First,we will talk about the positive effects or, in other words, the pros of eating these sweets. Scientific researches have shown and

Kahlua Oatmeal Chip Cookies Recipe

We’ve outlined the basic information for this recipe below. I think that you’ll find it’s quite easy to make, meaning that even a novice can pull it off. The ingredients are all readily accessible in most US and international grocery or baking food stores. Serving Size: 4 Dozen Cookies Prep Time: 25 Minutes Calories Per

Coconut Dream Cookies With Mini Chocolate Chips, a Sweet Treat for College Care Packages

My twin grandchildren, one male, one female, returned to college last week. One attends a large state university the other attends a small private school. Both of my grandchildren are please with their college choices. This year, instead of living in a dorm, my grandson is renting an apartment with three home-town buddies. There are

Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

The sour cream chocolate chip cookie recipe turns out a light and fluffy, moist chocolate chip cookie! Don’t blink your eyes-these delicious morsels will be gone that fast! Ingredients 2/3 cup salted butter, softened 1/2 granulated sugar 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar 1/2 cup sour cream 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Lorna’s Warm and Chewy Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Cookies are one of America’s number one snacks. I would have a snack attack and the first thing I will crave for is something with chocolate in it. It had to be chewy and satisfying. I do no know one person who does not like chocolate chip cookies. I love baking homemade cookies for my

9 Tips to Making Mouth Watering Chocolate Chip Cookies

Think back to a time when you where a child and coming home to the aroma of homemade chocolate chip cookies. It’s not hard to do. Homemade chocolate chip cookies (CCC) made from scratch are the absolute best. Now you can fill you home with the same aroma reminiscent of your childhood. After burnin’, ruinin’

List of Herbs and Seasonings for Oven Roasted Vegetables

Grilled or oven roasted vegetables are easy to prepare and provide good healthy food. Roasting vegetables is a quick and easy way to add variety to a meal, whether roasted in the oven, on the stove top, or on a grill. Many of the vegetables are delicious plain, with no seasoning at all. That is

Top Rated Crock Pot Recipes That Are Definitely A Must-Try

If you have a slow cooker, you can cook thousands of different dishes from a variety of cuisines. If you’re not sure what recipes to start with, you can opt to cook popular crock pot recipes first as they are proven to be delicious. Here are some of the top rated crock pot recipes you

The Perfect Pre-Race Dinner: Pasta With Bolognese Sauce

In order to perform at their best, athletes of all ages need to train well, get plenty of sleep, stay hydrated and eat a nutritious diet that is well balanced and wholesome. In the days leading up to a competition or race, it becomes even more important to eat well to ensure that the body

Metaphors in the Soup Pot

If it’s fall, it’s time for soup! Fall calls us to come inside, take those wools and warm socks from the bottom drawer. When dark comes earlier in the day, soup calls. The story of a good soup – in its early round pots or in today’s shiny all-clad flat bottom brands – remains a

How Does Cooking Affect Spice Flavor?

As you know, timing is everything when preparing a meal. The same holds true for spicing, that is, when you spice has an effect on the intensity of the flavor. Depending on the spice, cooking can increase potency, as you may have discovered when adding cayenne to your simmering spaghetti sauce. Or the flavor may

The Controversy of Candida Tomato Paste

There is a lot of people out there wondering about Candida tomato paste and how they go together. Many diets tell you that you can eat tomato paste, and the next diet will tell you that you can’t. So what is the truth about Candida tomato paste? First, we need to realize that tomato’s themselves

3 Delicious One-Pot Campfire Recipes To Try

When you’re camping, it’s ideal to go for meals that are easy to prepare and cook. More importantly, you should also make filling meals that will give you energy for all your outdoor activities. That’s where the beauty of one-pot meals come in – you’ll be able to make a hearty recipe that won’t take

Pros and Cons of Spaghetti Integration & Star Integration

A few years ago, IKEA released a VERY hilarious commercial to promote its simple and clean furniture line to organize a home or office space. In short, the commercial opened with an attractive couple, in a rather unattractive and untidy room, sharing a single spaghetti dinner. They savored and slurped each noodle as suggestively as

Origin of Pizza and Spaghetti – Marco Polo in China

Pizza is one of the more popular foods among American children. They gobble up pizza like anything. As a result, there have been several chains to offer pizza to consumers: Pizza Hut, Domino’s Pizza, Little Caesar’s, Papa Johns, etc. Pizza is even enamored by entire cities such as Chicago with their famous “Chicago Deep Dish”

Spaghetti Squash and the Candida Diet

Have you ever heard of spaghetti squash? If you have ever followed a low carbohydrate diet chances are that you have heard of this amazing winter squash that when cooked falls apart into spaghetti-like strands. Spaghetti squash is a low carbohydrate dieters dream, containing only 5 grams of carbohydrates per ½ cup serving. It is

Importance of Healthy Indian Breakfast

“Breakfast like a King, Lunch like a Prince and Dine like a Pauper” is a very famous proverb and is very true considering the fact that 25 percent of the day’s calories should come from breakfast. Glucose is the main source of energy for brain and the continuous supply of glucose is required to improve

Healthy Breakfast Recipes for Weight Loss: Eggs Are Your Best Friend

When you’re looking for delicious healthy breakfast recipes for weight loss, eggs are truly your best friend. Eggs are one of the most natural foods you can eat and also one of the best. A word of warning though: do not believe the hype and nonsense that too many eggs are bad for you. This

Healthy Breakfast Foods

It is always surrounded by silly excuse of lack of time. And still no one denies that fact that “breakfast” is the most important meal of the day. Why such a hullabaloo about this early morning meal? Well, for starters, this meal comes after a break of 8 – 10 hours; hence your blood sugar

2 Delicious Healthy Breakfast Ideas for Weight Loss

There is nothing worse than having to eat the same boring meals over and over again. The notion that healthy eating has to be boring to be beneficial is one of the biggest misconceptions and it really bugs me. You can enjoy delicious foods and to prove it, I’m going to give you 2 delicious

Homer Alaska Bed and Breakfast – The Chocolate Drop Inn

Homer, Alaska is home to the finest log inn, the Chocolate Drop Inn, with a majestic view of Kachemak Bay, Kenai Mountain range and four glaciers, along with “Chocolate Drop Mountain.” Built in 1993, the Chocolate Drop Inn is an 8000 sq. ft. log inn with 5 guest rooms and a family suite that includes

Tips For Eating A Healthy Breakfast

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but it seems that with our busy lifestyles, breakfast has fast slipped down our list of priorities. Breakfast it seems, has been reduced to a sugary muffin and coffee on the go, losing all nutritional value. Our body starts demanding a supply of energy as soon

Eating A Healthy Breakfast For Busy People

You’ve always heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But, there are so many people that don’t follow this rule! They say that they just don’t have time and grab a cup of coffee and a doughnut as they are heading out the door – if they eat anything at all!

Healthy Breakfast Tips for Busy Moms

Most busy moms have one common problem: lack of energy and tiredness to deal with. Boosting your performance and energy level tips is what really helps to keep you up running and happy. As for many of us it is a daily struggle to keep ourselves energized. With kids, household affairs, shopping, cooking, cleaning and