What are the best cooking hacks you've learned over the years?
What are the best cooking hacks you've learned over the years?
What are the best practices you've learned to save time or make a meal better.
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Always keep canned tomatoes in the pantry. Particularly tomato paste. It's a great ingredient that can add a depth of flavor to a variety of dishes.
Whole spices really do make a big difference and it's worth knowing how to use them even if you don't make them part of your everyday cooking. When its time to make a special dish, using whole spicessl that you grind fresh will be worth it.
Use acid in your cooking. Citrus, viniger, wine, yogurt, etc will often upgrade a dish.
Parchment paper/aluminum foil is your friend. Minimize your time scrubbing dishes by minimizing the mess you make when baking food.
I have a few recipes that were clearly written or modified by someone using really old ground spices. Like I have a recipe for apple muffins that legitimately calls for two teaspoons of nutmeg.
I do like 4 rubs of a nutmeg on the microplane and it's perfect.
Isn't nutmeg toxic in the right amount