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How to Cook a Flank Steak for Fajitas – 5 Steps to Perfection
Making beef fajitas? Well you can use just about any cut of steak – but if you want to make real-deal really really good fajitas, you’re going to have to use either flank or skirt steaks. Both cuts hide on the bottom belly of the cow, well...
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How to Make Corn or Zucchini Fritters (A Good Basic Fritter Batter Recipe)
A great basic fritter batter with frying instructions.
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How to Make Spanish Chicken Croquetas
Crispy golden outside, creamy chicken inside, Spanish croquetas are the best! Step-by-step instructions and recipe.
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How to Perfectly Pan-Sear and Then Oven-Roast Pork Tenderloin
The secret to perfectly cooked pork tenderloin is a two-stage cooking method that starts in the frying pan and ends in the oven.
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Taco Seasoning Recipe (Great for Pork)
Make your own taco seasoning - it tastes better and this recipe calls for ingredients you probably already have in your spice rack at home!
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How to Make Homemade Irish Sausage
How to make Irish sausages. Recipe with clear instructions for beginners!
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73 Additions & Things That Taste Great in Salads
73 great additions to salad - add a little excitement to your next salad!
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How to Cook a Bone-In Pork Loin Roast
Easy but detailed instructions on turning out a perfect bone in pork rib roast. Brine and recipe, seasoning and cooking.
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How to Make Homemade Fresh Polish Kielbasa Sausage
Making your own kielbasa sausage is no harder than making up some meatloaf! Here's how to do it.
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How to Make Bangers, the Classic English Sausage, From Scratch
If you can make meatloaf, you can make your own homemade English Bangers; there's really nothing to it. Here's an easy recipe with clear instructions.
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How to Cook a Ham in Hay – And Why You Should Try It!
Cooking a ham in a bed of alfalfa hay; sounds weird - tastes great! Get the recipe and instructions here.
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How to Make Pork Stock; and Why You Should!
Homemade pork stock tastes great and is easy to make. Here are detailed instructions and a recipe.
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What’s the Difference Between Instacure #1 and #2?
Understand the differences between Insta Cure #1 and #2. Learn which you need to use to make bacon, ham, or sausage.
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How to Make Deli Roast Beef – It’s So Easy
Make your own roast beef for sandwiches at home. It's very easy, saves you money and tastes much better!
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Tom Yum Kha Moo Recipe – How to make Thai Hot and Sour Pork Leg Soup
Tom Yum Kha Moo = Thai hot and sour pork leg soup. This spicy Thai soup is rich and savory, made from the meat and bones of the pig’s foreleg. Although pork leg (the part under the picnic shoulder) may be a rarer site in supermarket meat...
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How to Make Coconut and Taro Ice Cream – A Thai Classic Dessert
People from tropical parts of the world seem to a have a much greater appreciation for a wide array roots and tubers than we do in more temperate countries – and if we were smart, we’d take notice and get more into these very tasty and always...
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How to Make Great Beer Battered Fish
An easy recipe for perfect, crispy and crunchy, golden brown beer battered fish and chips!
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How to Toast Spices (and Why You Should)
Instructions on how to toast spices, includes a video demo.
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Beer-Battered Baja Fish Tacos Recipe
An easy recipe for making beer battered Baja style fish tacos at home. Detailed instructions for frying fish and making great-tasting tacos!
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How to Cut Flat Iron Steaks from a Cheap Top Blade Roast
How to Cut a very cheap top blade roast into fantastic flat iron steaks.
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How to Cook Meat Like a Chef – Tempering and Resting; the 2 Secrets to Success!
2 dead easy chef secrets to cooking better steaks, chops and roasts every time.
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Easy Roasted Pork Belly Recipe – How to Make It and Why You Should!
How to make the best pork roast you'll ever have!
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Soup Making Secrets - Add Textures! A List of Crunchy Things to Add to Soup
An easy way to make better soup - add texture. Here is a list of foods that you can add to soups to add great textural variation and excitement.
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How to Grill Pork Chops – 6 Secrets to Success
6 secrets to grilling perfect pork chops every time.
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How to Make Blackened Tomatoes - And Why You Should (They're Delicious!)
How to blacken tomatoes in a cast iron pan for an incredible depth of flavor. Use in your favorite salads, in pasta or pizza!
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Brined and Smoked Pork Loin Recipe
How to brine and BBQ hot smoke a pork loin for a perfect smoked pork roast dinner!
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Vietnamese Meatball Wraps (Nam Neung)
How to make Vietnamese meatballs in rice paper.
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Thai Stir Fried Noodles with Basil Recipe
Easy, spicy and delicious Thai stir fried noodles with basil. Authentic recipe and instructions.
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Thai Clear Soup with Pork (Gaeng Jued)
A simple Thai clear soup with pork meatballs. Recipe and instructions.
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Thai Style Golden Fried Fish with Spicy Mango Salad Recipe
Thai spicy green mango salad alongside chunks of golden fried white fish - heaven! Easy recipe with instructions
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How to Build and Use a Brick BBQ Smoker (Part 2)
Learn how to build your own smoker from scratch, from start to finish. You'll also find part one inside.
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How to Build a Brick BBQ Smoker
How to build a large brick BBQ smoker for about $200. An explanation, with photos and diagrams.
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How to Make a Strawberry Sauce/Strawberry Coulis
Strawberry coulis is an easy and tasty dessert sauce. Get the recipe and instructions here.
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How to Cook an Easy After-Work Meal: Pork Loin Roast
A small pork roast is a perfect after-work meal because you more or less just put it in the oven for an hour or so and forget about it. So easy, so good!
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Thai Spicy Pork with Lime (Moo Manao) Recipe
A quick and easy spicy Thai dish. Pork Tenderloin slices bathed in a fiery garlic lime dressing - good eats!
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Tom Yum Gai Thai Spicy Chicken Soup Recipe
An aurthentic spicy Thai chicken soup recipe with detailed instructions.
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3 Ways to Check Deep Fry Oil Temp Without a Thermometer
Before the invention of oil thermometers, cooks figured out simple ways to check oil temperature for safe deep frying. Now those secret tricks can be yours!
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Grilled Mexican Corn on the Cob Recipe
Mexican corn on the cob - grilled corn dripping with butter and mayo, rich with cheese, spicy with chili and tangy from lime. Very good stuff. Easy recipe and instructions.
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Mashed Sweet Potatoes – 10 Variations
Easy instructions for making mashed sweet potatoes plus 10 flavor variations.
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Creamed Spinach Recipe - A Steakhouse Classic!
Creamed spinach - a steakhouse classic that is so easy to make at home. Here's an easy recipe for an indulgent side-dish.
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3 Easy Ways to Thicken a Sauce - Beurre Manie, Cornstarch and Reduction
3 simple ways to transform a liquid into a sauce
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10 Boiled Potato Recipes - 10 Easy Variations for Tasty Meals with Potatoes
10 easy variations on everyday boiled potatoes
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24-Hour Pork Roast Recipe (The Best Roasted Pork You’ve Ever Had)
Pop this giant pork roast into a very low oven for a full 24 hours and forget about it - and take the best pork you've ever had out of that oven a day later
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How to Glaze Carrots and Other Vegetables. Better Tasting Side Dishes Every time!
An easy 1 minute glaze transforms eveyday boiled carrots into a very tasty side dish. Learn how to glaze vegetables with easy instructions here.
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BBQ Ribs; Secrets to Falling Off the Bone Tenderness - The Texas Crutch!
An easy technique for great BBQ ribs, that are falling off the bone tender
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Pad Krapow Kung: Thai Stir-Fried Shrimp With Basil
This dish is a 10-minute classic. So easy, so good!
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The Most Delicious Gluten-Free Meatloaf Recipe
Sautéed mushrooms replace the breadcrumbs in this delicious meatloaf recipe!
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Spicy Thai Stir Fried Bamboo with Chicken Recipe
An easy recipe for SPICY Thai stir fried bamboo shoots with chicken breast. Delicous!
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How to Buy Fresh Fish. Signs of Freshness
5 ways to know you are buying fresh fish
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Thai Deep Fried Garlic Ribs Recipe
An easy recipe for Thai deep fried garlic ribs.
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Thai Stir-Fried Cabbage With Pork Recipe
Stir-frying a bit of white cabbage and pork is so easy, but tastes so good. Try this authentic Thai stir-fried meal. Ready in 5 minutes, start to finish.
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Topping Ideas for Steaks, What to Put on Top of a Good Steak!
A list of creative topping ideas to add flavor to steak, from gorgonzola butter to chimchurri sauce, and everything in between!
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How to Pair Wine with Mexican Food. A Few Easy Rules
A few easy rules that will help you select a great wine pairing to your Mexican meal.
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How to Make a Tamarind Shake. A Refreshing Summer Fruit Drink!
How to make a refreshing summer tamarind fruit shake.
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How to Easily Make Fried Mozzarella Sticks
Everyone loves deep-fried mozzarella sticks. How could you not? Here is an easy recipe for making this dish at home!
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Using Palm Sugar for Thai Cooking - Why Thai Food Doesn't Taste the Same Outside of Thailand!
The reasons to use cheap and tasty palm sugar in your Asian cooking, and three reasons why the Thai food you cook at home doesn't taste like the Thai food you had in Thailand.
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Cook Better By Balancing Sweet and Sour. A List of Ingredients That Add Acidity to Any Dish
How to season your food and a list of ingredients that you can use to add sourness.
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Thai Stir Fried Red Snapper with Garlic and Pepper. An Easy Thai Fish Recipe!
A great 20 minute Thai stir fried fish recipe.
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How to Poach Eggs in Plastic Wrap. Perfect Poached Eggs Every Time!
An easy trick to perfect poached eggs every time.
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5 Tips to Making Better French Toast. Brunch Recipes - French Toast Secrets
Most people know how to make French Toast, few people know how to make GREAT French Toast! Here are 5 secrets to better French Toast everytime.
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How to Make Canadian Bacon. An Easy Recipe for Homemade Loin Bacon
It's easy to cure Canadian Bacon at home. Learn how to make your own homemade Candian bacon!
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How to Make Chicken Breast with Orange Gastrique. A Very Easy Orange Sauce for Chicken
A restaurant staple, gastrique sauces are very easy to make and can be put together in minutes. Try this easy orange gastrique for chicken breasts.
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How to Roast Root Vegetables: Potatoes, Carrots, Yams...
Easy tricks to perfect roasted vegetables every time.
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How to Make Agar Agar Cream Cheese. An Easy, Low Cost and Rennet Free Cheese
Agar agar cream cheese is easy to make and can be made at a fraction of the cost of renneted cream cheese.
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How to Be a Better Cook - Add a Little Crunch to Every Meal! Textures Matter...
Want to be a better cook? Start thinking like a chef and start adding a little crunch to every meal! Easy ways to sneak in crunch and textural contrast to the meals you make at home.
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The Top 10 Winter Meals, with Recipes. The Best of Cold Weather Cooking! Chili, Lasagna, Roast Beef, Creme Brule...
The top 10 best meals for a Winter's afternoon - with recipes.
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How to Use Agar Agar, a Vegetarian Gelatin. Make Savory Jello's and Play in the Kitchen!
Easy to follow instructions on how to create gelled foods from liquids using agar agar (vegetarian jellos).
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How to Cook a Chicken Breast Perfectly Every Time. Precise Low Temperatures for Moist, Juicy and Tasty Chicken!
Here's an easy technique for cooking chicken breasts perfectly. It's based on the principles of Sous Vide cooking (which top chefs love) but it requires no special equipment in your home kitchen...and it turns out perfect chicken every time!
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How to Cook With Spring Roll Wrappers
Buy a pack of inexpensive spring roll wrappers and start playing around with adding a bit of crunchy goodness to everyday meals!
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How to Make Homemade Ravioli
Forget the pasta machine—make ravioli from scratch using a rolling pin! Taste the infinite "pasta-bilities" as you dream up unique fillings and sauces.
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A List of Sustainable Fish and Seafood. Which Fish You Should and Shouldn't Eat.
What fish can you buy with a clear conscience? A list of what to buy and what to avoid.
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Easy Home Egg Freshness Test and How to Boil Eggs that Don't Smell Eggy!
How to know if your eggs are safe to eat and how to boil eggs that won't smell up your kitchen!
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How to Make Confit Style Mexican Pork Carnitas. An Easy Carnitas Recipe, Tips and Tricks.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pancakejess/2240478860/ Fatty pork fried for hours in pork fat…Mexican pork carnitas are the best food in the world – ever. While perhaps not on your cardiologist's heart-smart menu plan, an occasional...
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How to Make an Easy 5-Minute Green Onion and Sunflower Seed Pesto Sauce
Ever had green-onion pesto? It's different, but delicious. Prepare to be delightfully surprised.
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How to Make Homemade Kahlua: An Easy Coffee Liqueur Recipe
Get zesty and make your own coffee liqueur!
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3 Ways to Pick a Great Balsamic Vinegar. How to Know Which Balsamic Is Going to Taste Great!
3 ways to choose a great balsamic vinegar at the supermarket. How to know which of the hundreds of bottles of Modena Balsamic is worth the money!
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Easy Instructions for Hot Smoking a Home-Cured Ham in a Gas BBQ
Easy instructions for hot smoking a fresh cured ham in a gas BBQ. Homemade ham is easy to make, and you can use your normal backyard gas barbecue to smoke your own ham.
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How To Cure Ham at Home, It's Easier Than You Think! Wet Curing (Brine) Ham Instructions and Tips.
Cure Ham at home. Easy instructions, a simple brine and after a week in the fridge, you have transformed fresh pork leg into American Ham!
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Light, Dark or Blackstrap Molasses - Which Do You Need? Understanding the Differences
Blackstrap, first pressing, sulfured, unsulfured…what kind of molasses do you need, and what's the difference anyway? Who knew buying the molasses you needed for those cookies or baked beans could be so hard! How is Molasses Made? Molasses is...
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4 Ways to Toast Almonds, Cashews, Pecans, Nuts, Seeds and Coconut
4 methods for toasting different nuts (Cashews, almonds, walnuts,peanuts etc.). Toasting nuts before adding them to baked goods or other recipes makes a surprising difference in taste.
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No Canning Lazy Man's Raspberry Jam. 2 Ingredients and So So Good.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jchatoff/592883834/ There is just something so satisfying about a little daily harvest of raspberries. Waking up each morning ready to pluck off the day's ripe berries makes me feel more than a little down-home country...
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Make a Decadent Gluten-Free Cheesecake in 5 Minutes
Are you craving a delicious dessert but don't want to invest a lot of time into making one? Whip this mouthwatering cheesecake together in just five minutes!
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Grades of Beef - USDA Prime, Choice, Select, Black Angus, Grass Fed - What Do They All Mean?
Choice, prime, Angus, organic, select…! Wow, buying a piece of meat sure can get confusing, and the prices can range pretty drastically too. So what do these terms mean, and what do you need to know to buy a piece of meat your family is going to...
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Cuts of Steak Explained and Which are the Best
A lot of people have trouble with meat. They like the idea of a great steak, and they have a general notion that the more expensive the steak, the better it is…but more than that…who knows?! I didn’t either until fairly recently when I...
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Crispy Thai style garlic fried fish
Thai style crispy fried garlic fish. Learn how easy it is to fry a whole fish with garlic for a Thai style dinner. Thai recipe and instructions, with tips and a video.
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Authentic quick fried 10 minute enchiladas.
Enchiladas…real enchiladas, are generally not the Tex Mex creations we've come to know and love (?). While cheesy saucy baked enchiladas are a down home comfort-food in much of the south, down south of south, enchiladas are much simpler, and often...
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Never punch down the dough when making bread!
The way to make good bread, I mean seriously good bread, with a complex intricate and changing flavor, a crusty crackling crust and an irregularly shaped bubbly interior, is through both time and proper handling. Time simply means giving...
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Gluten-Free Banana Lemon Loaf Recipe—the Best Ever!
A recipe for gluten-free banana-lemon loaf that my mother makes. This cake is delicious, and you should try it even if you aren't avoiding gluten.
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Cook Perfect Steakhouse-Quality Steak in a Cast Iron Skillet
If, for whatever reason, you can't grill your steaks, you can get a very, very acceptable steak with your trusty old cast-iron skillet.
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The Best 4 Ways to Grill or Barbecue Corn on the Cob
Got a luscious, silky, fragrant ear of goldenrod corn in your hand, but you aren't sure how to cook it? I've got four mouth-watering ways to enjoy your golden treasure!
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How to Perfectly Grill or BBQ Sausages Using Indirect Heat
If a sausage gets too hot, it'll pop open, and you'll lose the delicious juices contained therein. I can show you how to perfectly cook a sausage every time!
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The Difference Between Cake Flour, All-Purpose Flour, and Bread Flour. Which Do You Need, and Why?
Understand the difference between all purpose flour, bread flour, self raising flour and cake flour and know when you can substitute one for another! It's actually pretty easy to understand what makes them all different - it all comes down to the amount of protein in each one.
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Southern Country-Fried Chicken: Crisp, Deep Brown, and Easy to Make at Home
photo credit: www.eatfoo.com Col. Sanders be gone. Make your own country-fried chicken at home, and get a rich, dark brown chicken with a shatteringly crisp crust and a taste so good you'll find yourself inexplicably in front of the fridge at two...
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Caribbean papaya hot sauce. Make your own in 15 minutes. Great for the BBQ!
Easy papaya hot sauce This is a great 15 minute hot table sauce and will compliment any Caribbean, Indian, or general grilled meats very well. The sauce is very easy to make, and ads an exotic twist to everyday BBQ. Papaya Caribbean Hot...
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Simple and delicious pork confit. Outstanding confit will always win raves!
photo credit: www.thepassionatecook.com A very simple pork confit Confit of pork is pretty sinful. Taking a fatty cut of pork and braising it very slowly in its own rendered lard isn't going to qualify as "heart smart", but once is a...
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How to make a backyard mud oven. Cheap, fun, and makes a professional qualtity pizza!
Here are easy to follow instructions for building a mud oven at home. You can make a mud oven (Cob oven) at home without any special skill and almost for free - and your wood burning pizza oven will turn out professional quality hearth breads and pies.
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Homemade Mexican crema. This Mexican sour cream is easy to make at home
Learn how to make authentic Mexican sour cream (Mexican crema) at home. Easy tips and steps for homemade Mexican sourcream!
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Safe homemade mayonnaise. An easy technique that guarantees safe homemade mayonnaise.
Homemade mayonnaise is a versatile sauce that actually bears little resemblance to the white goop that comes out of a jar. Actually, I like that white goop, but it's no where near as good as a true homemade mayonnaise. I had wanted to make...
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Pork neck. Use this cut for the best BBQ pork chops you've ever had!
The problem with today's pork is that it is far too lean. I guess reduced fat consumption has its advantages, but man, the price we pay for this healthier eating through dry and tasteless pork chops seems pretty steep! I believe that if you're...
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how to make a sourdough starter. It's easy to make and use.
Homemade bread is good - homemade sourdough bread is fantastic! Learn how to start and maintain a sourdough starter. Specific and easy to follow instructions for getting started with sourdough!
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How to Make a Grilled Chicken Chimichanga: a Fried Mexican Burrito!
Crunchy chimichangas are fantastic! Make this restaurant favorite at home with this easy chicken chimichanga recipe.
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Refreshing summer fruit shakes. These three ingredient icy shakes are great!
I've lived in Thailand for years, and if there's one thing that the Thai's know how to do well (actually, when it comes to food they do an awful lot of things well) it is use their great bounty of tropical fruits to great effect through really easy...
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How to make great BBQ ribs. Easy tips and tricks for outstanding BBQ!
6 easy tips and tricks to making great BBQ ribs every time! Easy things that you can do to improve the taste and consistency of your cue. It's Barbecue season again - Get Smoking!
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Easy 1 minute lemonaid. Get some citric acid and make easy lemonaid, and also be a better cook!!
Citric acid is really great stuff. The name sounds a little scary, but a quick look at some labels on a lot of the food you eat will show you that you are already eating a lot of it! Citric acid is the naturally occurring acid in limes. You can...
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Caribbean rice and peas recipe. An easy and delicious side dish!
Caribbean rice and peas is a taste sensation, and with some leftover rice you can make this recipe in 5 minutes! An essential side for Jerk chicken or any other Tropical meal.
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mexican hot sauce recipe. A delicious spicy tomato based table sauce.
Homemade hot sauce is a common sight on dinner tables and restaurants across Mexico. It's easy to make your own, and you'll love the fresh taste of your own homemade hot sauce. This recipe makes use of a really common technique in Mexican...
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Great refried beans recipe. An easy recipe for authentic Mexican Frijoles refritos!
Frijoles refritos - the beany soul of the Mexican kitchen, something that is so often served as a bland afterthought - but that when made well can well and truly steal the show! You can use either pinto beans or black beans for authentic Mexican...
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Easy Hand Rolled Water Bagel Recipe
Make great hand-rolled water water bagels as easily as you'd bake a loaf of bread.
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Steak house secrets. Make great steak at home every time!
BBQ season is thankfully here again, and it's hard to beat a great steak; but steak can also get pretty expensive, so you want to make sure that you're doing everything right to ensure that you get great steak-house quality steak every time you...
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Easy flaming mussels in a sambucca cream sauce...all done on the BBQ!
This is an easy recipe that is both lots of fun, amd can be prepared start to finish in about 20 minutes.It has the drama of an outside flambé to entertain your family and friends, and everyone will love digging in to these really delicious...
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Great Homemade Beef and Bean Chili Recipe
There are as many chili recipes as there are Texans. To say that this recipe is the world's best may be a little difficult to prove, but it's pretty darn good! The secret to great chili is using the right ingredients and taking your time. You've...
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Delicious mango sauce recipe. A fresh and easy sauce for grilled meats.
An easy recipe for a sweet and sour mango sauce that goes as well on grilled chicken and BBQ as it does on ice cream! Make this fresh tasting sauce in about 5 minutes.
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Make your own Italian sausage. This recipe is so easy!
Making homemade Italian sausage is no harder than making a meatloaf. Here are easy to follow instructions and a recipe for fresh sweet Italian sausage!
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Easy food smoking at home. How to smoke your own bacon!
You might think that you need to invest in an expensive smoker if you want to start making your own home smoked bacon, fish or sausages. These commercially bought smokers will work well, but you can easily use your backyard BBQ to get great...
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Make Your Own Bacon. Homemade Bacon Tastes Fantastic!
How to dry cure bacon at home - it's a lot easier than you think. An easy to follow recipe with instructions for making a batch of refrigerator bacon in about a week.
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I'm a chef and restauranteur living and working in Chiang Mai Thailand (Chiang Mai Mexican Restaurant). I've always loved to cook, and I want to write these hubs to try to pass on any great recipes and tips that I've picked up along the way. I hope that I can provide Hubs that inspire you to get into the kitchen and enjoy yourself!