Tips: Cooking and Food Prep Tips

• To avoid cutting onions, garlic, peppers and other spices every time you cook just prepare a big batchin advance. Use onions, green peppers, red peppers, garlic, tomato paste, and other spices like basil, oregano, pepper and blend to a paste in a blender. Freeze the paste in ice cube trays and store them in a ziplock bag in the freezer. Each cube is a serving so you don't have to keep cut vegetables in the fridge and speed up your cooking by getting exactly the amount of spices you need. If you are cooking 4 servings use 3-4 cubes depending on how spicy you like it. D. Cant from British Columbia ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• When you buy a peppers (any color) or even onions, and you end up with a little or a lot left over, cut them into slices for stir-frys, or little bits for flavoring recipes, adding to sauces, dips, salsas etc, and freeze. I use the plastic take-away containers that salads are sold in. A chunk breaks off the frozen whole easily, giving you access to a small amount should you need it. The vegetables don't need to be thawed before use. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• To chop nuts, place in a plastic zipper bag and roll with a rolling pin. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Perk up a fresh fruit salad by adding some undiluted, frozen juice concentrate, such as orange, or grapefruit. Estelle from Pittsburgh ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Here's an ingenious way of recycling burnt garlic bread. Heidi scraped off the black burnt part and grate the rest to make flavorful breadcrumbs. Heidi Coeler, Thousand Oaks, CA ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Meatloaf tips. Use oatmeal instead of bread crumbs, use V-8 juice instead of ketchup or tomato juice. Mixes the V8 into the oatmeal then mix that into the loaf. Teri Wilson, Colorado Springs, CO ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• For families on the go where everyone eats at a different time. Use your microwave oven as a food warmer. Spoon portions of vegetables and meat onto a dinner plate, then place in the microwave oven to maintain the heat. Hot food will remain hot for about an hour. Debbie Williams, Houston, TX ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• If you need to use brown sugar and you haven't used preventative measures to keep it from hardening try putting it in your microwave for a short amount of time. Sam, Hillsboro, OR ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Disposable water bottles make great dispensers for salad dressings, oils and sauces. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Roasting chickens or turkeys breast-side down will help keep the breast meat moister. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

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Tips: Cooking and Food Prep Tips

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