Category: How-To
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Useful Substitutions & Modifications for Cookies
This post is for those random, middle-of-the-night, I-just-felt-like-making-something-sweet cravings. Maybe you don’t have all of the exact ingredients you need, but you need cookies. Below you’ll find some substitutions and helpful modifications for cookies that I’ve used over the years. What goes into a cookie…usually Cookies usually consist of the following ingredients: Butter Sugar (some…
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7 Tips & Tricks for Making Great Cookies
There are so many types of cookies and an infinite number of flavor combinations, but making a really good cookie just boils down to using quality ingredients that you love and keeping the following things in mind. Use room temperature ingredients Mix everything evenly Chill the cookie dough Give the cookies enough space to bake…
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How to Dehydrate Strawberries at Home
Here’s just another one of those kind-of-random, but potentially-flavor-changing build block sort of posts. Let’s go over the simplest way to dehydrate strawberries and why you’d ever want to do such a thing. Just some context before we just into this super easy process: I make strawberry cheesecake cookies that everyone seems to love, but…
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134 seasonings, pieces of equipment, and pantry items that every home cook needs
Getting (back) in the kitchen can be a daunting task. There are so many ingredients, seasonings, tools, and techniques that go into making the dishes we all know and love. You could very well survive by eating the same meal, using the same couple of seasonings, cooked in the same way, but that’s boring! I’ve…
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10 Ways to Save Time in the Kitchen
One of the biggest complaints I hear about cooking is that it takes too long. For people like me who don’t mind staying in the kitchen all day, this is a thrill, but I realize I am in the minority here. So I’ve put together a list of 10 way to save time in the…