Cooking Techniques

Salt, pepper and a couple of dashes of Lea and Perrin give flavor and allows you to taste the beef.

After you peel it, you can scrape the pith off with the edge/tip of your knife. Kind of like how you scrape seeds out of a vanilla bean..

• Eat dairy products with it like: Sour cream, yogurt, cheese, milk or a glass or milk. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES keep drinking a drink after every mouthful as it makes the chili seem even spicier!
• If it is too acidic, use a pinch or more of Arm & Hammer Baking soda to neutralize the acid. Carrots offer a sweetness and absorbs the acid. Try one in your pasta sauce and see how it will taste before you serve the sauce. Sugar can be used to sweeten if needed, be cautious though. As stated below, potatoes work well also.
• Peel 2 -3 large potatoes and mix them into your chili. Leave in for 1/2 hour, then taste and if it's still too spicy leave it in until your taste test tells you otherwise. Then remove the potatoes and serve. (Mmmmm, I love chili! Not too hot though.) In an emergency when you lack the time for the potatoes to work their wonder, try steps 2 or 3 below.
• Make more chili without spice and add it to the original batch and stir!
• A teaspoon at a time stir in sugar and stir until the excess spice flavor has been masked, or (if you promise to keep it secret) you may stir in pieces of sweet or semi sweet chocolate to contradict and mask the spice, but you must never add so much chocolate that you can actually taste it or (God forbid) so that anyone else would ever guess what it is.
• Put a few pieces of lemon, peel and all, in your chili. This will help to neutralize some of the spiciness. Remove the lemon before you serve it
• Add a few cans of pinto beans and/or diced tomatoes. Just avoid any that have added seasoning.
• Dairy helps to neutralize hot foods so if you are in a hurry and need a quick fix you can add either sour cream or plain yogurt as a topping.
• Add a dollop or two of honey. You can't taste the sweetness but it knocks out the spice. It really works.
• Penzey's Spices sells a heat free chili powder that I love. My stomach (and mouth) can't handle capsaisin, which is the chemical in peppers that makes them hot, this chili powder is all real chilis with no capsaisin and it is delicious. Using this alone makes heat free chili or you could mix with the chili you already use to make a milder version. This spice site sells a variety of chili powders with all heat levels. If you love to cook, look them up!
• The best kept secret to improve chili's acidity comes from an idea from Emeril Agasse that I use. If your making a huge batch like I do, heat in microwave for one minute or on the stove, a quarter cup of apple cider vinegar, once its hot, stir in two tablespoons of table sugar and dissolve. Add it to the chili and its wonderful. If you get it a hair too sweet, add salt. The mixture is called "gastrique" (gastreek), works wonder in any tomato based sauce.
• Adding some sugar or honey to neutralize the acid. you can add little by little until you reach your desired flavor level.
• You can use baking soda. The baking soda ingredients tend to neutralize Ph (acidity level). One or two tspns will work.
• Add to the sauce 1/4 cup of hot apple vinegar/wine vinegar with 1 tspn of honey dissolved in it, or 2 tspn sugar.
• Serving chili over white rice is tasty, tones down spices, and even stretches the recipe a bit. Each person prepares his or her own portions of rice with chili topping to individual taste!
• Try adding water and cooking longer. Heat applied to chilis calms down the kick a bit. Maybe milk also, and cook it out.
• The only real way to do it is to add additional other ingredients -- more beans, meat, sweet peppers, tomato products, etc.... this will essentially dilute it. Other than that, you're stuck -- once it's integrated, there's little to do that will isolate the spiciness and allow you to remove it.
• Adding plain yogurt will calm the fieriness down in both chili and curry.
• Don't use powdered chilli or chopped fresh chilli. At the stage when you fry your garlic, add twice the whole chillies you'd normally use (count them!).; just take the stems off Taste your sauce at intervals and when it's at the heat you want, fish out the chillies. This is why you counted them, so you don't leave any in there.
• You can add a can or two of refried beans (or mash some canned beans). This helps to dilute the spiciness, and also helps thicken the chili, increases the fiber and protein content for a more nutritious meal, and stretches it to more servings without the higher cost of adding more beef. Also, by adding a few cans of the beans to the pot, it not only cuts down on the heat of the spices, but can almost double the amount of chili you end up with, for very little cost. (Of course, if you think of it before, just make a double batch and leave out the "heat" elements!)
• Add more tomatoes. You can put in brown sugar. Cumin works well if it's not extremely hot. Put the chili in the refrigerator and serve it the next day--it will be less spicy. Add brown sugar,or honey, or drink it with water. Add water to it.

2 each means 2 egg yolks for each of the number of people you are cooking for.

You take fruit and make sure you get all of the juices out, you add pectin and sugar. Then get a pressure cooker and put it into jars until it says it is done. Then get it out with tongs (IT WILL BE HOT) and wait for it to set and go cold before putting it away.

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Jellies and jams are made by boiling fruit with sugar until the mixture "jells" or thickens.

Many fruits, particular apples, contain enough natural pectin that additional pectin is not needed for jelling. Other fruit needs the addition of pectin, or apple peels which are high in pectin, for a good jell.

Jelly, at least in American cooking, is made of strained fruit juice and sugar so that the end product is clear. Jams are made with crushed fruit, with or without seeds, so that the final product is thick and dense. Jams became popular with home cooks as they made more economical use of fruit with less waste than the clear jellies. Preserves can be a combination of the two techniques, with hole or cut fruit suspended in clear jelly.

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The answer depends entirely on the sort of leftover to be reheated. Leftover pizza would be reheated quite differently than leftover pot roast or soup.

It will cook faster and more thouroughly that way.

So that it cooks evenly without burning.

Id say 2 days

A Girello roast can be tender and delicious, or tough and dried. This is one roast where slow and low is the key. A Girello roast is ideally prepared in a crock pot for eight to ten hours for maximum tenderness. Do not sear this roast.

it doesn't mold if you put it in the refrigerator

Yes, unless you are a ham

yes but if it has been left out for more than one day i would throw it in the garbage.

I doubt a toaster oven would reach sufficient heat to bake clay. Contact a potter, or pottery society, who could be able to help you with alternative methods for baking clay.

The link below has some recipes for small clay (bakers' dough) objects for making in a domestic kitchen.

Chocolate chip cookies.... little easy desserts...veggies....potatoes. You could also have a go at a traditional dish like shepher'd pie or spag bol if you have a good recipe.

No. In that liquid that comes with the beasn on the can is where most of the flavor is. It is very rare for people to drain them, at least on the hispanic community

First you have to boil the heck out of it until tender. It takes a up to 2 hrs to get it tender. Make sure you first cut the bottom off and any bad brown spots if any. Take the middle out and throw away. Cut the long pieces in half,then boil. When tender take out and put on paper towels to dry well. Flatten them down if they tend to curl. Set up a bowl of eggs mixed and a paper towel with breadcrumbs on it. You dip the pieces into the egg mixture,then into the breadcrumbs. You have to have a lg. frying pan with olive oil in it. It takes alot of olive oil for this. Put at least a inch deep in pan. Heat the oil,then put each strip into the pan to deepfry. After they are down, spinkle with Romano Cheese or Parmesan

It would depend on how fast your oven cools down. If it gets under 160 degrees then you can have bacterial growth starting. If you leave it as too high of a temperature then you will have a dry roast. My advice....eat it as soon as it is done.

I've done this for years.

A non-stick pan with a fitted lid works best.

Coat your pan lightly with your fat of choice (olive oil--EVOO preferably, shortening, butter, margarine, bacon grease, etc.) This is more for flavor with a non-stick than improving the non-stick quality.

Crack your eggs in a bowl and pour them gently into the heated pan.

Just as the "whites" begin to turn white, add a couple table spoons of water and lid the pan. It will take another thirty seconds or so for your eggs to finish.

salt, pepper, and cayenne (better than hot sauce or Tabasco because you get the heat but there is no vinegary flavor) them to taste.

ANY roast, 3lbs. or greater, should be cooked at 325 degrees, for 40 minutes per pound. When cooking 2 or more roasts add the weights together as if they were 1 roast.

I normally cook pork at 350 F ( 177C) for 25 minutes per pound covered in a roasting pan or 30 minutes per pound not covered in a roasting pan. On a rotisserie I go about 30 minutes a pound. So that would be about 7 hours for 16 lbs. Always check doneness with a meat thermometer (they are usually marked for the correct temperature).

Take them off.

Sure. If it has completely gelled but you want the bananas inside the jello, mix up another batch, chop up the gelled mixture and add this and the bananas to the new batch. If it hasn't completely gelled, chop it up a bit and add the bananas.

If you mean curdling , you need to heat the cream slowly and not add it to a hot mixture when it is cool. If cream is needed to be added to a hot mixture, slowly heat the cream to mixtures temperature in a separate pot and add it when it is hot.