Fixing Common Cooking Mistakes

Bread is too soft to slice: Freeze it and slice it frozen.
Bread Stale: Sprinkle it with a small amount of water, put it in foil, and bake in an oven at moderate heat for about ten minutes.
Cake Stuck to Pan: Let it sit until it is a little cooler, and then try again. If it's already cold, reheat for a minute or two.
Cheese tough or rubbery after cooking: Blend in a blender or food processor at low speed for a minute or two, then cook slowly.
Coffee or broth cloudy: add eggshells.
Coffee overcooked: Add a pinch of salt
Dough is lumpy: Add more liquid and pound the dough thoroughly.
Dough won't rise: Put the bowl of dough in a warmer place - in an oven, for instance, with a pilot light (do not turn the oven on). You could also mix a bit more yeast in ¼-cup warm water and knead into dough.
Dough won't shape: Let it rest for 15 minutes.
Eggs crack when cooking: Put in 1 teaspoonful of salt and a bit of lemon or vinegar into the water to keep whites from oozing out of the shell.
Egg whites won't whip: Add a bit of baking soda or salt.
Fudge hard: Add a tablespoon of milk and 2-3 tablespoonfuls of corn syrup and beat, then pour. Put in an airtight container for 24 hours.
Gelatin stuck in mold: Dip the mold in hot water, but not so the gelatin is touched by the water, for just a few seconds. Put the mold on a plate, turn it upside down and shake.
Gravy gray: Add red currant jelly, soy sauce, a bit of sherry, meat extract, or 1 teaspoon instant coffee.
Gravy lumpy: Beat it with eggbeater or wire whisk. Strain it.
Gravy salty: Make more. Sometimes adding a bit of brown sugar helps. Cook small pieces of potato into the gravy.
Ham salty: Soak slices in milk for 15 minutes to a half-hour. Wash off.
Icing sugared: Add a bit of vinegar and keep cooking.
Lemon hard: Heat it for 5 minutes in boiling water or for 15 seconds in a microwave on HIGH, then try juicing it.
Meat burned: Cut off burned parts, cube and sauce the rest. Serve over pasta.
Pasta stuck together: Put back in boiling water with a tablespoon or so of oil in it.
Pie dough burning on edge: Cover edge with aluminum foil.
Popcorn won't pop: Soak corn in water for 5 minutes, dry off and try again. For very recalcitrant corn, freeze overnight and pop while frozen.
Rice burned: Get it off the flame, then put a piece of bread on top of it, cover for 5 minutes.
Scummy stock: Add leek tops and tomato peels, which absorb the scum.
Soup too salty: Slice in potato, simmer until potato turns translucent, then lift potato out.
Stew meat tough: if you haven't had the time to let the stew continue cooking under gentle heat, add a few tomatoes or a teaspoon of sugar to tenderize it.
Vegetable old: To pep them up, add a pinch or two of sugar and a little salt to the cooking water.
Vegetables overcooked: Puree them. Or make a cream soup of them Or put them in an oven-safe dish, cover them with bread crumbs and grated Parmesan cheese, and broil for a couple of minutes.
Vegetables too salty: Pour the water out, rinse them off, and return them to the stove in new water. If you are already done, wash in hot water.
Whipping cream won't whip: chill everything (bowl, cream, beaters) and try again. If that fails, add an unbeaten egg white or 3-4 drops of lemon juice and whip as hard as you can.

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Discovering Smoked Barbecue - The Ceramic Kamado Cooker - What is It?

If you are a barbecue aficionado, perhaps you have heard of the Kamado Cooker. Perhaps not. The Kamado type cooker is a heavy ceramic vessel used both as a smoker and and as a grill. The "Big Green Egg" is the name brand of one type of Kamado Cooker. there are other brands to choose from. They all work basically the same way, and are really just a certain style of a vertical smoker.

There are generally three types of smokers to choose from when cooking barbecue. One is the offset smoker, which has a fire box set off from the smoke chamber. the meat sits on top of racks in the smoke chamber. Smoke and heat enter the smoke chamber, flow around the meat, and exit through a chimney system.

The next style of barbecue smoker is a kettle grill/smoker. Think "Weber Kettle Grill". This type of grill can be set-up for use as an indirect smoker. To use as a smoker, charcoal is piled up to the sides of the kettle, and the meat is placed in the center of the grill, not directly over the hot coals. Smoke from the coals goes around the meat giving it that smokey good flavor before exiting the little vents in the top of the lid. This type of smoker, low tech as it is, will turn out fine tasting barbecue.

Finally, the last style of barbecue smoker is a vertical smoker. In a vertical smoker, the fire is built in the bottom of the single chamber, many times there is a water pan directly over the fire, and the meat is smoked on racks located vertically above the fire in the bottom of the chamber. The smoke and heat travels upwards, around the meat cooking it and giving it that smoked barbecue flavor before exiting through the vents on top of the unit. A Kamado smoker is simply a specialized type of a vertical smoker.

The Kamado smoker is made out of heavy ceramic material, about an inch thick. The benefits of the Kamado smoker is that the fire can easily be maintained at very low temperatures which is good for smoking meat "low and slow." Also, because of the insulation properties of the ceramic material, a small amount of charcoal fuel is used while cooking. If not used as a smoker, the Kamado makes an excellent grill, achieving temperatures as high as 725 degrees. It can be used for many types of cooking, including baking of pizza's.

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Microwaved Eggs: How to cook eggs in the microwave oven?

A friend shows me how to cook eggs in the microwave oven. (Language: Portuguese, 2008) (Como fazer um ovo na microondas?)

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Dan Mej Lou Mian (Daniel Mejloumian) Loves his food so much, so he eats and eats and eats and eats... till he fall asleep with the milk bottle half fool still.

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An animation by Joe Brown and Tom Lambert. We interviewed over 50 kitchen staff, teachers and pupils on what they thought about school food. We animated our favorites. Please Comment and Rate. Thanks. More films: www.abingdonfilmunit.com

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Chicken Tender Recipes - Easy & Quick To Prepare!

These chicken tender recipes are easy, quick and delicious. Just check these out and I'm sure you'll be amazingly surprised.

So put your hat on and get ready for some quick easy chicken tender recipes:

>> Turkey or Chicken Tenders

1 1/4 lb Fresh turkey tenderloin Or boneless chicken breast

1 1/4 c Divided oat bran cereal

1 t Salt

1/2 ts Pepper

2 lg Egg whites

2 tb Lowfat evaporated milk

1 t Paprika

1/2 c Peanut oil

Cut turkey tenderloins or chicken breasts into 6 slices by cutting cross the turkey carefully with sharp knife. Pound tenders to 1/4 inch thickness. Slit around edges to keep from curling. Blend 1/2 cup of
the oat bran cereal with salt and pepper and coat tenders. Whip egg whites lightly with milk.

Blend remaining 3/4 cup oat bran with paprika. Dip meat into egg whites, then into oat bran paprika mixture. Place on baking rack and allow 5 minutes to dry. Heat peanut oil in large frying pan until hot. Brown tenders 2-3 pieces at a time for 3 minutes per side, or until crusty and brown. Drain well and serve with a low-fat dip.

>> Crispy Chicken Tenders

1 c All-purpose flour

1 ts Poultry seasoning

2/3 ts Paprika

1 ts Onion powder

1/2 ts Garlic powder

1/4 ts Salt ds Pepper

1 Egg

1 ts Milk

3/4 lb Chicken tenders Cooking oil

Combine dry ingredients in a plastic bag. In a bowl, lightly beat eggs
and milk. Dip chicken pieces in egg mixture and shake off excess. Shake a few chicken pieces in the bag at a time, coating well.

In a large skillet, heat 1/4 in. of oil over high heat; brown chicken on all sides. Reduce heat to medium and continue cooking for 10 minutes.

That's it for today! If you want more chicken tender recipes just check below:

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Bigg Boss 4 - October 20 2010 - Part 2/6

Bigg Boss 4 - Episode No: 18 Shveta sits before Khali and Rahul in the swimming pool discussing Khali as Indian or foreigner. Begum rests. Manoj in the confession room and asks him to choose two. He can either chose himself or take the suggestions of the players. Everybody is asking him to declare the candidates. Democracy or dictatorship. Lies about the method. Manoj asks for votes. Begum and Shveta discuss Ashmit and Hrishant way of talking. Also Sara in the kitchen, the frying pan and egg. Begum Ali is fed up and wants to go home. He does not want to blast like a pressure cooker. Hrishant and Shveta conspire about the note bundles. Hrihant gives massage to Sara, She has a cramp. Shveta joins the counting team. Ashmit walks in, Sara stops.

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