Home Cooking - Helpful Hints and Tips Reviews

Congratulations started university? Moved away from Mum and Dad, Freedom. Well get the first week or two over, find the uni bar got drunk, go to first lectures feel scared, nervous, alone don?t know where anything is. Meet lots of people; make a few friends join a few clubs. Sex, drugs, rock and roll cooking for yourself. ...

“When you’re in Rome, do as the Romans do and when you’re in Sardinia, do as the Sardinians do.” “OK, OK,” I hear someone murmuring, “but what if I’ll never make it to Italy, let alone Sardinia? Couldn’t you tell us something about the culinary habits there so that we can try out the ...

I’ve traded in my Birds Eye chicken for a saucepan and a few herbs and it’s about time too! For several reasons my good intentions have always been blown out the water and I go back to prepackaged ready meals that seem so much quicker and easier. However I’m a changed woman and with the steps and information I needed to do that ...

I'm sure most of you have heard about Jill Murphy's "favourite thing" celebration by now. I've just returned from a quick break in England (gotta love that weather - I actually tanned) and had plenty time to consider what to write about on the journey back. I nearly wrote my favourite thing opinion on bags - you don't ...

I have loved cooking ever since I made my first batch of crispy cornflake cakes in Brownies, aged seven! Since then I've graduated to slightly more taxing creations, but the pleasure I get out of producing something delicious (and occasionally nutritious!) for other people to eat is exactly the same. Good home cooking is not ...

I don't know if I am the best person to write this opinion as I am hardly the best cook in the world, but when I left home at 17, I had to learn pretty quickly! And considering when I first moved in with my boyfriend all we had in the kitchen was a microwave, I think I have done quite well! Whether you go away to university or not, at ...

Cooking tips. Here?s mine I hope they help 1. Keep thing simple. I know you may have been told this before but if you try to cook something to difficult there?s more of a chance that it won?t turn right. If you start with a simple dish, build your confidence then try something new and different. It?s always good to have a good base recipe ...

I've called this Sweet Pork, but for the "fat" conscious among us, it works just as well with turkey or chicken. This recipe will feed four people quite comfortably. INGREDIENTS 1lb - 1 and half lb lean pork (cubed) Small tin pineapple cubes in juice. Small onion (chopped) One carrot (diced) One ...

I'm not the world's greatest cook but one thing that always astounds me is that boil in the bag rice is so popular in this country. Rice has to be one of the simplest staple foods in the world; so in case you didn't know how to fix it, I'm going to go all Delia on you and tell you How To Boil Rice. Boiled Rice ...

The potato is great in many forms. Whether it's baked in it's jacket and served with beans, butter or tuna, or boiled or roasted for a Sunday dinner, the potato is very versatile. Us Brits have been raised on the potato, and it is in it's chip form that this humble root vegetable is most popular. There aren't many people who ...

This recipe I came across by accident as I decided one day that making a roux sauce on the hob was just too much trouble. Firstly, a roux is a simple sauce used in all kinds of recipes; I use it for the cheese sauce in Lasagne & Cauliflower cheese, for fish pie, for parsley sauce, for interesting, experimental pasta dishes....the list ...

Ah, homemade food recipes, what an interesting category. I thought I’d add my expertise on the good old British dish of “Baked Beans on Toast”, those good old Beans in a rich tomato sauce, I absolutely love them and especially so if they are made my way. I have my own special way of making the simple dish of ...

Choosing and preparing a chicken. The more naturally a bird is raised the better it will taste. Take time to look at what it says on the labelling as to how it was raised, if not from a welfare point of view then certainly from a taste point of view! Cornfed chickens typically have yellow coloured flesh as they have been ...

I would like to share with you all my lovely mexican recipe. It's not so much a recipe as some tips on how to make something simple, hence the category I have chosen. My mouth is watering as I think of this..... This meal is guaranteed to impress anyone, be it a second date 'ill cook you a meal' scenario, parents ...

Is it just me or are traditional sunday dinners great? So why is it that everyone I know do not bother having one on a Sunday? The usual reason is I cant be bothered, or it just doesnt taste the same as my mums, these are lame excuses. Sunday dinner is a great meal, a nice piece of meat, several portions of vegetables then covered ...

The humble potato has formed part of our staple diet for centuries. And its great! Boiled, fried, baked, or roasted. Fresh out of the ground, or used after storing, its on our plates, but I think many of us still tend to under use this most versatile of vegetables. Especially since rice and pasta dishes became so popular. ...

As I have mentioned before, I love food. I love cooking it, I love eating it. There are a couple of things I have to thank my parents for in this, my mother always used to let me help her cook and got me to do all the exciting things, like shape bread rolls. My mum and dad would also never let me have food dislikes. I was allowed one thing ...

For those of you that do exactly the same as me when I make this dish, make enough to feed the 5 thousand, then here is what to do with what' left. 6 eggs The cold pasta dish parmesan cheese salt and pepper butter When you have finished your meal mix the sauce and pasta together and stick it in the ...

What a superb thing a fry-up is. They are great for the 'morning after' as a help for a hangover, as long as your not being violently sick, you can have a fry-up for your dinner or tea, it just doesn't matter, and there's loads of variations you can have. The fry up is really a British thing I think. I mean who else would ...

Last week I asked my husband what he wanted for tea, his reply was "can we have that bean thing that you used to make when I was a student?". What he meant was Chili Bean Casserole. This was a very low cost recipe that I regularly used when my husband decided to become a mature student a month after we were married. Obviously we had ...