Cooking 101

Thanksgiving Turkey – Tips to Cook the Perfect Turkey

Thanksgiving Turkey – Tips to Cook the Perfect Turkey

Obviously turkey is most people’s choice for a Thanksgiving Main Course. Making a turkey is not as scary as you might think. We thought it would be fun for each of us to give you our special tips for how we make our Thanksgiving turkey […]

How to cook emergency hotline – how to brown ground turkey

I was over at Melissa’s the other day doing the filming for our Flip the Field interview. She was busy getting food ready and I was basically standing around doing nothing. One of her step-daughters called with a food emergency (she is a young and […]

It pays to have a well stocked kitchen!

We haven’t said it in a long a time, but it pays to have a well stocked kitchen. You should always have enough ingredients in your pantry, freezer and fridge that you can throw together at the last minute to make a fabulous dish to […]

It’s all about the presentation

It’s all about the presentation

Let’s be honest. Not every meal is going to take hours to prepare and look like it came from a restaurant. Why? I’m a mom, not a chef. I’m Denise, not Melissa 🙂 !!! Even though I might take short cuts, I can at least […]

How to poach an egg

How to poach an egg

So we’ve done a few posts lately on eggs: how to hard boil, how to devil, how to separate…well, you also need to know how to poach an egg. This is simple if you follow the technique and have a bit of humor for when it […]

How to separate an egg

How to separate an egg

We’ve already taught you how to boil an egg. Now it’s time to teach you how to separate an egg. When a recipe calls for a 2 eggs, separated, what that means is you have to separate the egg whites from the egg yolks in […]

Hard Boiled Eggs

Hard Boiled Eggs

How to make them perfect The first thing I would say about perfectly cooking hard boiled eggs is that you can’t make every egg perfect every time. I cook mine the same way every time and the results are probably 95% perfect. For example, the other day […]