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10 Tips to Stress Free Cooking
Everyone longs for stress free cooking, especially when it comes to cooking for large crowds. Here are 10 simple tips to keep your cooking stress free.
1. Plan ahead – It is important to have a plan ahead of time, especially if you are cooking for a large group. Planning ahead keeps you from having to make split-second decisions when you are supposed to be cooking.
8 Thanksgiving Freebies
With Thanksgiving coming quicky, I am planning to make sure everything goes smoothly,? As I begun wanting to make this the best it could be I wanted decorations, different recipes so I went searching and found some awesome freebies to help organize and celebrate this year. I hope you are able to use some of these.? All of these are downloads so no having to wait for anything in the mail.
Spooky Halloween Punch Recipes
Everyone enjoys a good party with family and friends when there is tasty food involved as well as some delectable drinks to be had. Halloween is a time a year when people can let loose by dressing up in a silly outfit or a frightening one, so why not let them get in the mood with some of these Halloween-inspired beverages.
Italian Fruit Punch
For those of your friends who like to drink, a great choice is the Italian Fruit Punch, which is a fast and easy drink to prepare for awaiting guests. The combination of Limoncello, Maraschino liqueur, orange juice, sparkling water, and ice will have your guests living it up in no time.
Mexican Food Your Kids Will Love
The increased number of Mexican people in the country has seen an increase in Mexican restaurants. Perhaps your family has one particular restaurant they like to visit. You can make some Mexican food your kids will love by using some of these recipes.
Tacos
One of the most popular Mexican dishes is tacos. Home-made tacos are easy to make with spiced ground beef, fresh vegetables, and cheese. What’s not to love? To make tacos you’ll need the following dried spices to season the ground beef:
Three Super-Easy Slow Cooking Recipes
Slow cookers, or crock pots, are wonderful tools in any home kitchen. Not only do they allow you to make a wonderful meal, you don’t even have to be present the entire time it’s cooking! You may want to try one of these three super-easy slow cooking recipes if you’ve never used a slow cooker before.
One meal commonly prepared in a slow cooker is pot roast. While this meal is often traditionally prepared in a cast iron Dutch oven or in the stove, there’s nothing quite like how moist and tender a slow cooker makes the meat.
The Benefits of Slow Cooking
Slow cookers, or crock pots, are small appliances used by many families around the country. A look around will provide a myriad of cookbooks or websites on the internet with recipes for use with the crock pot. The benefits of slow cooking go far beyond the ease of finding recipes, however.
One of the main benefits of slow cooking is how easy it is. Unlike traditional cooking methods, you don’t have to stand over the stove to ensure the dish cooks properly. You can place everything into the slow cooker, set it, and then walk away. In fact, you don’t even have to be at home while your meal cooks as most recipes require four to eight hours cooking time.
Summer Fun – How to Make Your Own Ice Cream
You may have heard, or even said the phrase, “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream”. With warmer weather it’s time for summer fun. Learn how to make your own ice cream by following one of these recipes for home-made ice cream.
Custard-based recipe
There are two basic recipes to make an ice cream base. If you don’t mind cooking the base ingredients before freezing, you may want to try this custard-based recipe:
4 large egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 cups heavy cream
2 cups whole milk
Pinch of salt
