My Cookery Tips
These little bits & pieces have been collected over many years from ‘professionals and amateurs’ alike. This will be a ‘living’ page, this means when I come across or remember tips I will add them to this list..my poor old brain cannot remember them all off hand!!
Homemade Breadcrumbs.
Breadcrumbs can be homemade from stale [...]
Cooking Conversions Tables.
Equivalent Measurements
Teaspoons:
1/8 teaspoons a pinch
1/2 teaspoon 30 drops
1 teaspoon 1/3 tablespoon
3 teaspoons 1 tablespoon
Tablespoons:
1/2 tablespoon 1 1/2 teaspoons
1 tablespoon 3 teaspoons or 1/2 ounce
2 tablespoons 1/8 cup or 1 ounce
3 tablespoons 1 1/2 ounces or 1 jigger
4 tablespoons 1/4 cup or 2 ounces
5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon 1/3 cup
8 tablespoons 1/2 cup or [...]
Glossary of Ingredients.
In this ‘Glossary’ of Ingredients, I will endeavor to explain the wonderful array of ingredient’s which now adorns our shop shelves in abundance.
In the hope you will give them a chance, and not pass them by because of not knowing ‘what to do’ with these alien ingredients. These pages will be updated over [...]
What to Keep in the Kitchen Cupboards?
When people find out I cook they nearly always ask:
‘ What DO I keep in my cupboards for basics ?? ‘
So here goes….
Cupboards & Shelves.
‘Dry’ Stores.
Tip: Save any ‘nice’ jars to put things in, or collect some ‘Kilner’ or ‘Mason’ jars, then I buy out of bulk bins in [...]
Basic Vegetable Stock.
This is a great way to use up excess vegetables, just roughly chop away & toss in the pot.
Put in ends of beans, celery trimmings potato peelings, parsley stalks or mushroom stalks the list is really endless.
One tip to abide by is: AVOID any vegetable with a strong flavour they can make the [...]
Back To Basics…Are the pages for those who want to know the basics of cooking , what you should have learn’t at your mother’s knee but never did..
In todays modern world we have lost the extended family environment in which we used to learn the skills required to equip us in the domestic echelons.
Today, everybody [...]