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How to Sear A Roast

Cooking Skills & Recipes / By Julie

Searing meat can be intimidating, especially for beginners, but it’s a skill worth mastering. This post is all about how to sear a roast. It will make your roast taste better and seal in the juices. I’ll tell you how to get that perfect crust on your roast, so it tastes like you spent hours …

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How to Cook Parboiled Rice

Cooking Skills & Recipes / By Julie

Learn all about parboiled rice and how to cook parboiled rice for use in all of your favorite dishes.

Polish Dill Pickle Recipe Sandwich Slices

Refrigerator Polish Dill Pickle Recipe

Cooking Skills & Recipes / By Julie

Love dill pickles? It couldn’t be easier to make your own and this polish dill pickle recipe goes back to my great great grandmother who called them ogórki kizone in Polish. We have modified it a bit to make these refrigerator pickles. What does that mean? You can make a small batch of polish dill …

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Authentic Neapolitan Style Pizza Recipe in a cast iron skillet with a wooden spoon.

Authentic Neapolitan Style Pizza Sauce Recipe

Cooking Skills & Recipes / By Julie

Want to make an authentic Neapolitan Style Pizza Sauce at home? It couldn’t be easier than with this recipe! We love to make homemade pizza for family and friends and this Neapolitan sauce recipe is the perfect sauce for any homemade pizza. A few simple ingredients like San Marzano tomatoes, good quality olive oil and …

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Cold Fermented Pizza Dough Recipe a dough ball after the first rise in a stainless steel bowl covered with a kitchen towel

Cold Fermented Pizza Dough Recipe

Cooking Skills & Recipes / By Julie

Making pizza dough at home is so easy and the cold fermented pizza dough recipe is a great start for the perfect homemade pizza dough. While it does take a little planning making your own pizza dough at home is so worth the time and effort. Homemade Pizza Dough Ingredients Flour – You can use …

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The Ultimate Guide to Different Types of Dough

Cooking Skills & Recipes / By Julie

Did you realize there were different types of dough? There are! The combination of a few basic ingredients and the method for preparing them can turn into so many wonderful foods to feed your family and friends. From bread dough, to pizza dough, to pastry dough or pie crust and beyond. Keep reading to learn …

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3 Cooking Methods to Master

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There are three basic cooking methods that are used when cooking with heat. Understanding how the heat is used and applying the correct cooking method is good knowledge to have if you are trying to become a better cook. For example, you probably wouldn’t want to boil a nice piece of steak. Or grill an …

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How to Read a Recipe

How to Read a Recipe in 5 Easy Steps

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Today we are going to talk about the importance of learning how to read a recipe. I’m pretty sure anyone that has spent any time cooking has made a recipe and had a different outcome than they expected. Has this happened to you? It certainly has happened in our kitchen. And probably more times than …

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5 Key Baking Terms – Becoming a Better Cook

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There are so many different key baking terms and phrases which are scattered through every cookbook on the planet. Understanding key baking terms and what they mean for your recipes can only add to your success in the kitchen. Cooking terms can be really daunting when you don’t know what they truly mean, and can …

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The Ultimate Glossary of Cooking Terms 136 Terms

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Ever read a recipe and have no idea what a term or process in the recipe means? Understanding what cooking terms mean is a big part of becoming a better cook. Are you ready to learn the lingo of cooking terms? To help you do that we have put together the ultimate guide of cooking …

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