Teaching Your Children Basic Cooking Skills
A guide to getting started in the kitchen with your children - from deciding on a theme to shopping for ingredients Teaching your children basic cooking skills is one of the best things you can do for their future. Not only do you help your child ... [... more]
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Temperature and Timings
A guide to understanding the ideal timings and temperatures for a range of dishes Some temperatures and timings in the kitchen are terribly important to get right. If you are relatively new to cooking or not particularly confident in the kitchen, ... [... more]
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Chef Show Offs - Tricks to Learn
Two ideas to impress your guests - spun sugar and perfectly risen souffles Why not learn a couple of chef tricks to impress your guests when you're cooking a dinner party, or just for a special meal at home? Little tricks can make a simple dish ... [... more]
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Effective Meal Planning for a Family
A guide to making the most of batch cooking and your freezer to make sure you and your family can enjoy home-cooked food every day Meal planning may sound terribly practical and not a lot of fun, but in actual fact it is a great way to have ... [... more]
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Making the Most of Your Oven
New ideas for making the most of the heat when you heat up and cool down your oven for cooking and baking. Making the most of your oven makes economic and practical sense. Once you have got used to utilising the heat of the oven for more than one ... [... more]
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Top Tips for Cooking Potatoes
Potatoes are one of our most important staple foods, available all year round and able to be cooked in a huge variety of ways. It is worth knowing how to get the best out of this popular root vegetable. A staple food in the British diet since the ... [... more]
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Cooking for a Crowd - Basic Ideas with Great Results
Two delicious recipes to cook for a crowd - without getting stressed or spending a fortune! If you cook basic yet tasty food that everyone will enjoy, you will save yourself from making lots of fiddling things and trying to please everyone. It is ... [... more]
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Handy Time-Saving Cooking Tips
We can use all the help we can get as we attempt to produce healthy home-cooked meals for our families, while coping with busy working lives. Handy tips really can make huge differences to our success. With busy lifestyles it can be difficult to ... [... more]
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Understanding Basic Cooking Techniques
When it comes to developing your skills in the kitchen, it is worth spending some time getting the basics right. Much like learning to drive or learning another language, there are building blocks in cooking that help you to learn the more ... [... more]
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Caring for Your Cooking Equipment
A guide to looking after expensive cooking equipment that can last a lifetime if you look after it well It is most important to look after your cooking equipment as it can easily be damaged. Caring for your kitchen implements is a part of being a ... [... more]
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Essential Baking and Cooking Equipment
A guide to the basics you need for all your cooking and baking adventures You don't need to buy a lot of fancy equipment for cooking and baking. Although there are scores of gadgets and gizmos available in department stores up and down the ... [... more]
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Understanding Cooking Terms
A guide to help you understand some cooking terms that chefs love to use but you may not know what they mean! Recent celebrity chef programmes have highlighted the fact that many people in the UK do not know how to cook even the most basic of ... [... more]
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