Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
--Bobby Flay
For Your Information
Please watch this area for important information like updates, food recalls, polls, contests, coupons, and freebies.- [March 19, 2020] - Effective Mar 17, this blog will no longer accept advertising. The reason is very simple. If I like a product, I will promote it without compensation. If I don't like a product, I will have no problem saying so.
- [March 17, 2020] - A return to blogging! Stay tuned for new tips, resources and all things food related.
- [February 1, 2016] - An interesting report on why you should always choose organic tea verses non-organic: Toxic Tea (pdf format)
- Sticky Post - Warning: 4ever Recap reusable canning lids. The reports are growing daily of these lids losing their seal during storage. Some have lost their entire season's worth of canning to these seal failures! [Update: 4ever Recap appears to be out of business.]
Popular Posts
-
Food manufactures have so convinced us that home cooking is not possible without a ready-made mix that many of us actually believe that myth...
-
I am very much a scratch cooking most of the time. One thing that has always been a concern is coming across a recipe I want to try that ca...
-
Pork is the remains a popular meat of choice for curing with bacon and ham being the most popular. What many don't realize is curing me...
One of the nice things about cooking is you don't have to re-invent the wheel. Keep in mind that a recipe is just a starting point. It isn't written in stone. A substitution here, addition there or tweak of the seasonings in an old stand-by dish can change the dish just enough to make an entirely new dish. Most home cooks alter recipes either as a result of need (eg. out of an ingredient) or desire (eg. don't care for an ingredient). I like altering recipes and dishes just to see what I can come up with.
Shake & bake chicken was one of the first dishes I cooked as a newlywed. The standard meal of shake & bake chicken, potatoes and corn remain a family favourite. I no longer buy the commercial coating but rather use my
homemade shake & bake chicken coating. Last night I tweaked the basic coating to get slightly different results by adding fresh ground black pepper and about a cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese to the coating. The Parmesan cheese gave a rather pleasant, crispier texture to the chicken. While the cheese added flavour it was not strong but rather a hint. The fresh ground pepper worked nicely with the cheese to add that little extra as well. All in all, the dish was a delicious success!
1 food lovers commented:
It does look pretty yummy. :)
I'm not confident enough in my skills to mess with a recipe too much, though I will often leave out something we don't like when I try a recipe.
Hope you're doing better!
Post a Comment