Kitchen Tips and Hints

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The links on this page will  take you to individual pages of kitchen tips and tricks, personally collected over many years of cooking. I add to them on a regular basis so please come back often.

• About Pies
• Anchovies
• Avocado Pears
• Baking 'Blind'
• Batter
• Breadcrumbs - an alternative
• Browning Meat
• Brown Edges on Lettuce
• Burns
• Candle Wax - Removing
• Cannelloni, Italian Style
• Caramel the Easy Way
• Cauliflower
• Cheating
• Chilli and Chocolate
• Clarifying Stock
• Cockroaches
• Couscous
• Decorating With Cabbage
• De-seeding Chillis
• Eggs - Boiled, Undercooked
• Eggs, Cooked
• Eggs, Green Rings
• Eggs Keeping Fresh
• Eggs - Peeling Hard-boiled
• Egg Shells
• Egg Whites - Leftover
• Fish - Sticking to the Barbecue
• Flavoring Rice
• Garlic Peeling
• Garlic - Raw in Salads
• Ginger - Keeping Fresh
• Green Vegetables
• Hiccups
• Icing a Cake
• Kiwi Fruit - peeling
• Kumatoes
• Lemon Juice - 'a few drops'
• Lemons, Juicing
• Making a Cartouche
• Mango Sauce
• Marinades
• Mayonnaise (bitter)
• Microwave - Cleaning
• Mint Sauce
• Mouldy Tomato Paste
• Onion Tears
• Pans - Avoiding Burnt
• Pasta, Sticky
• Perfect Souffles
• Plum Sauce
• Puff Pastry
• Red Wine Stains
• Rice - Washing
• Salt Reduction
• Screw Top Lids - Removing
• Simple Cucumber Pickle
• Skin Forming on Sauces
• Slicing Meat and Fish
• Strawberry Sauce
• Tapenade
• Thermometers
• Vierge Dressing
• Vinegar Magic
• Vinegar - More Uses
• Vinegar in Pasta
• Whipped Cream - Keeping Fresh
• Whisking Egg Whites