Nothing major. The meat can keep cooking if it is hot enough, or it can warm the contents of the fridge. Not putting hot meat into a fridge is a holdover from true ice boxes, where the hot meat could melt the ice.
If the liqueur was added before the jam was cooked, yes. If it was stirred in after the jam cooled, no.
Cooked meat should not be left at room temperature for more than 2 hours. At that point, it should be refrigerated or reheated. Cooked meat should be cooled at room temperature for an hour then refrigerated. After 2 hours it is not considered safe at room temperature. Food needs to be kept above 140F AFTER being heated to AT LEAST 160F.
It is previously cooked chicken that has been cooled.
This food should not be left out. Cooked foods should be cooled quickly for cold storage. It can only take a hour for cooked foods to be contaminated.
Yes, couscous with vegetables can be safely frozen.
When starch is cooled, it undergoes retrogradation, where the amylose and amylopectin molecules re-form a more ordered structure. This results in the formation of tight, insoluble aggregates, leading to the starch becoming thicker and less soluble. This process is commonly observed in cooked starchy foods that have been cooled, such as cold cooked rice or pasta, causing them to harden or become firmer.
it blows
It freeseez.
they expand
It contracts.
it will solidify.
It contracts. solid