Smooth, chunky, salty, sweet. However you like your peanut butter there’s nothing more satisfying than making your own homemade peanut butter. Roasting and pureeing raw peanuts allows you to control the amount of seasonings and consistent that you desire and it’s so much fresher than any store bought variety. Homemade peanut butter is quick and…
How To Make Chicken Stock
One of the biggest and easiest improvements you can make to your home cooking is to use your own stocks. There’s absolutely no comparison to a good homemade stock. The grocery store versions are typically laden with unnecessary salt and lack flavor. This is the way I make stock in any restaurant I have worked…
How to Cut St. Louis Style Spare Ribs
I like to buy spare ribs and cut them into a St. Louis Style rib. It’s super easy and you get a lot more meat, like the riblets, when trimming yourself. Step 1: Remove extra surface fat. No need to dig into the meat at this point. You’re just looking for any fat that is…
How To Cook Beets
You can boil, steam, or roast them. Anyway you cook them, beets are a great addition to any meal. They have an sweet earthy flavor and buttery texture and are a great source of antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and aid in detoxification. My cooking preference is roasting which brings out the natural sugars but it does take longer…
5 Tips To Healthier Eating For Kids
Raising kids is tough! Yes Mom and Dad here is the moment you’ve been waiting for. You were right! All those times I can recall as a child hearing my parents say “you just wait till you have kids”…… It all makes sense now. During the school year my day starts at 6am and doesn’t end…
DIY Raised Bed Garden Irrigation For $100
I added 3 more 4×4 ceder raised beds to my vegetable garden this year and felt it was time to include an automated irrigation system. This was my first attempt at this and I am very pleased with the results. In total the parts cost me just over $100 and looking back now I probably…
Easiest Way To Cook Rice
Let me rephrase. The easiest way to cook rice is to use a rice or pressure cooker! However, if you don’t have either of these on hand or you need to cook a very large batch of rice then I have the solution for you. Bake your rice in the oven [pinit count=”horizontal”] Yep it’s…
Homemade Tomato Sauce
[pinit count=”horizontal”] There are just a handful of store bought bottled tomato sauces that actually taste like the real deal. It’s just as easy to make your own homemade tomato sauce and only requires a few ingredients. This recipe makes 2 quarts and does well in the fridge for 2 weeks or you can freeze…
How to Read a Nutrition Label
[pinit] Learning how to read a nutrition label took some time and it’s still a work in progress. I credit my wife who is a nurse and JD (i.e. smarter than me) who has educated me over the years about nutrition, ingredients and how the body converts food into energy and stores fat. Another great…
How to Cut a Whole Chicken
Image from Bon appétit I’ve always enjoyed cutting fish and meats into their individual cuts. Something about the precision it takes to filet a whole salmon or tuna without sacrificing any of the precious meat and the skill required to properly clean a beef tenderloin excites my primal instincts I guess! It’s me, my knife…
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