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Best Bread Flour For Baking Like a Pro

Choosing bread flour can seem complex once you start digging into all of the options out there to buy. Things like protein content, types of wheat, blends, and other factors to consider make it tough to decide what to try next. But those who love to bake bread eventually find

flour for pasta

Best Flour for Pasta To Buy | Guide and Reviews

When it comes to homemade pasta, the final flavor can be all about the flour! There are no hard and fast rules about what type of flour to use but picking the right flour will play a major role. There are some general guidelines you may want to follow to

Best Meat Grinder For Bones

Best Meat Grinder For Bones – Ultimate Guide and Reviews

Have you ever thought of owning an electric meat grinder? Though most meat grinders will work wonders for general purposes, it’s important to have the right type of grinder for the job if you intend to include bones in your ground meat. If you happened upon this page and you’re

Exotic meats to try

10 Types of Delicious Exotic Meats You Should Try (One you ALREADY have)

Are you bored with the usual chicken, beef, and pork on your plates? Are you looking for something unusual to eat that could excite your taste buds? You are not alone! Americans in particular have a very limited palate for meat. There is a vast world of food choices out

meat grinder

Best Meat Grinder | Guide & Reviews

When I first started to grind meat at home, it was a little intimidating. For one thing, I didn’t know how to use a meat grinder. Also, there were so many options to choose from and I didn’t know what made one option better than the other. But I dug

pasta maker

Best Pasta Maker To Buy (DELICIOUS pasta at home)

The perfect pasta starts with a pasta maker. A pasta maker is a machine that allows you to make pasta and noodles at home. With the right ingredients, recipe, and instructions, you can make quality pasta just like savory specialist offered in authentic Italian restaurants. You have the option to

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Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites

Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites

These need almost no introduction. Just look at them. They’re bite-sized, perfect to put together while you’re watching TV, even over a couple of days. They’re the ultimate party food, slightly fancy, just enough to impress and simple enough that people think “Oh, what a great idea! Why didn’t I

More Comfortable At Home

Spend Money On 10 Things That Makes You More Comfortable At Home

There’s no place like home, that is if your home is your source of comfort and relaxation. If it isn’t yet that kind of situation, then it’s time for you to make it that way. It’s where you go back to after a long and stressful day at work. It’s

Scandinavian Holiday Bread

Scandinavian Holiday Bread – Bread Recipe

Ingredients 4 cups all-purpose flour (4 to 5 cups) 1/2 cup sugar 1 package  Active Dry or Rapid Rise Yeast 1 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup evaporated milk OR 3/4 cup whipping cream OR 3/4 cup half-and-half 1/4 cup water 1/3 cup butter or margarine 3 eggs

Cinnamon Buns

Easy Cinnamon Buns Sometimes Called Pull-Aparts – Bread Recipe

This recipe is so easy a monkey could make it. Hence the name monkey bread, you think? There is a similar recipe called Breakfast Pull-Aparts. The main difference is nuts and cherries in place of raisins, and corn syrup replaces some of the brown sugar. Both are listed here. Both

Pasta Salad

Discover The Italian Secret to Cooking Great Pasta Salad

How many times have you tried to prepare or cook pasta only to find out that the end product is not as tasty as you wanted it to be? One reason, Italians use the essence of garlic instead  of crushed, minced or sliced garlic By robbing a clove of garlic

Vegetarian Wrap recipe

Vegetarian Wrap Recipe Asparagus and Avocado

This is a very simple, yet probably most delicious vegetarian wrap I tried so far. The recipe originally came from “Mayo Clinic’s Williams-Sonoma Cookbook” by John Phillip Carroll. After I first prepared and tried it –  I came to regret I did know about this recipe before and lived without

Chocolate Gelato Recipe

Chocolate Gelato Recipe Options That People Must Try

Chocolate is definitely one of the most popular gelato flavors these days. If you look back on the long history of chocolate and gelato. You will be amazed at how an ancient delicacy and a renaissance culinary invention were able to find their way together. The intoxicating flavor of chocolate

Lamb with Caper

Boiled Gigot of Lamb with Capers

Boiled Gigot of Lamb with Capers Recipe   Ingredients 1 Leg of Mutton boned and rolled 2 large onions peeled and stuck with cloves 2 carrots peeled and chopped 1 sprig rosemary 1 bay leaf 6 black peppers 1 sprig each of fresh parsley and thyme milk to cover salt

Fresh Crabs

Traditionally Recipe Made From Fresh Crabs

This is traditionally made from whole fresh crabs: the fresh (read that as alive) crabs are killed by dropping them in boiling water, then the shells are split, and the meat extracted for the recipe. However, you can simply buy crab meat and if you don’t have crab shells you

All Wheat Superb Rolls – Recipe For All

Note: The stone ground whole wheat flour adds only 1.3 Teasps of flour to each roll (our of a total of 18 rolls). You only gain 6.2 grams of carb for the batch; each whole-wheat roll, based on a count of 18, has 3.1 grams of carb.   Ingredients ¾

Zucchini Bread Recipes

Zucchini Bread Recipes For Vegetarians – A Simple Bread Recipe

For those who are not much into eating vegetables, zucchini is actually a summer squash. People with a culinary background treat zucchinis as vegetables. But for those with botanical degrees, zucchinis are actually immature fruits. There are a lot of different things that you can do with a zucchini. These

Overview of Meat Thermometers

Overview of Meat Thermometers | Grinder Reviewed

New Year’s Eve is the great moment to spend with your family and friends. Most people love having BBQ in their home backyard to welcome New Year. It is great to grill meat, chicken, or fish with special seasoning and vegetables. Yummy!   What have you done so far? Have