Shallots are a fantastic vegetable which can be purchased from major supermarkets and even grown in your garden. The vegetable is commonly used in salad dressing and sauces. It adds a lot of nutritional value and flavour to otherwise relatively dull meals. Shallots freeze best when chopped up into small pieces, washed and stored in […]
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Air Fryers are great for cooking a number of things and in a healthier format compared to some more traditional methods. But like any appliance, there can be some technical issues and things can get age and break. The best way to fix an air fryer drawer that won’t close is to make sure that
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Instant pots are great for anumber of things from cooking meats fast, creating flavourful soups or even whipping up a quick and easy breakfast. But you might discover over time a metallic taste within your food. An easy to way prevent a metallic taste when cooking food in an instant pot is to make sure
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Using worktop appliances are a dream to use and can massively make our lives easier as we are busy working or looking to make something tasty but quick. Slow cookers have been used to create tasty meals while we are busy working. Slow cookers use a ceramic or porcelain pots which are great for slow
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A pressure cooker is a great way of creating delicious meals in a short space of time along with no fuss or mess. To stop a pressure cooker from burning on the bottom you can add more liquid, a base plate to rest the meat on or to cook on a lower heat. In this
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Whether you are looking to steam your vegetables, cook a roast or create a base for a soup you may find that your carrots are still hard, even after spending a long time in the slow cooker. To prevent carrots from staying hard in your slow cooker you should add more liquid to the pot
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I love making my own ingredients. Things that you usually purchase at the grocery store, I like to try making my own. I call it ‘cooking DIY’. Sometimes it works, sometimes not so much! I recently discovered that it was possible to make your own jarred minced garlic. After reading the very short list of
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My kids like to help out in the kitchen on occasion. No-bake recipes can be a great way to go, especially when my two-year-old son wants to join in and help! They can get used to measuring and mixing without having to deal with hot pans. These are 24 easy and super fun no-bake recipes
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Sausages are great, but much like all meats, they can go off in the fridge relatively quickly. The good news, however, is that sausages can be frozen and easily last 12 months or more. Many people think that the drawback to freezing sausages is that you have to defrost them before using them, however, that’s
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For many, a food processor is an essential piece of kitchen equipment. So, when you find the appliance to be leaking it can be a source of frustration. There’s a number of reasons as to why your food processor may leak, these include; overfilling, using an incorrect blade, a broken lid, a faulty seal or
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