Category: Cooking Tips

Tuesday’s Tips - Baking »

Today’s tips will revolve around baking. I LOVE to bake but hate the clean up;)  BTW–I give tips every Tuesday!!

If you like to use insulated baking sheets, don’t run out to the store to buy them; you can simulate them by stacking one regular cookie sheet over another. Be especially careful when you take them [...]

Tuesday’s Tips - Chocolate »

How to Melt Chocolate
Melting chocolate to use as a baking ingredient for candy work or decoration requires gentle heat. Chocolate that is overheated may scorch, lose flavor and turn coarse and grainy. Stir melting chocolate after it has begun to liquefy. Because of the sensitivity of milk solids to heat, milk and white chocolates should [...]

Tuesday’s Tips - Thanksgiving Tips »

To stay with the Thanksgiving theme, I’m sharing some tips.  These range from cooking to hosting.

Put the ham in the oven on a pretty low temp the night before Thanksgiving you go to bed. Then roast your turkey in the morning. The ham is always juicy and never dry because it cooked slow and low, 
Cover a turkey with [...]

Preparing for Thanksgiving »

We all want to have the perfect Thanksgiving, however, some of  us need a little more help than others.  One of the items I recommend for cooking your turkey, is the
Nesco 18-qt. Nonstick Cookwell Electric Roaster to free up your oven for other baking and cooking that needs to be done. I have an earlier [...]