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January 14, 2015 at 12:59 pm #351501
Melissa Burnell
Welcome to a Budget101 Beat the Clock Challenge! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to answer the following Challenge Question before the clock runs out!
back in the day, they offered home economics classes in school. the classes taught how to manage home finances, how to do some basic budgeting, how to sew a button on a shirt, etc.
The Challenge Question is : Two part question!
What is one (or more) of the most valuable cooking tips/lessons that you’ve learned and wished someone had told you sooner?
wondering how to play? hit the reply button and answer the challenge question! (seriously, that’s it)what is the goodie giveaway for this challenge?
fully loaded spice rack (complete with the spices!) View it Here
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January 14, 2015 at 3:03 pm #460380
randomname2014
What is one (or more) of the most valuable cooking tips/lessons that you’ve learned and wished someone had told you sooner?
Not every recipe has to be followed to a T–it’s okay to change up the seasonings to personalize a meal. More seasoning doesn’t equal ‘better’ or ‘tastier’; sometimes, a little is best.
How to can and jelly. Haven’t gotten around to that one yet. Seems complicated and intimidating. -
January 14, 2015 at 3:22 pm #460381
skeeter456
question one—-run hard boiled eggs under water after peeling to get the tiny bits of shell of
question two—what to do with all this flavored vinegar i received for christmas -
January 14, 2015 at 6:05 pm #460383
Bumbeez22
What is one (or more) of the most valuable cooking tips/lessons that you’ve learned and wished someone had told you sooner? Not everything you make has to be made the way it says , majority does , but it’s always good to switch it up a little bit and add some of your own personal touches to it and experiment a bit.
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January 14, 2015 at 6:14 pm #460384
karenlgardner
Tip one is to nevr the area when cooking with out setting two timers. What I still want to learn is to make bread.
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January 14, 2015 at 7:52 pm #460385
MissAthanatos
“What is one (or more) of the most valuable cooking tips/lessons that you’ve learned and wished someone had told you sooner?”
“ALSO, What is one thing you’d still Like to learn?”
One thing, of many, that I would still like to learn is how to make Turkish Delight. It’s my favourite sweetie and seems it would be a good gift at holidays.
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January 17, 2015 at 1:21 pm #460419
PamESP
Quote:What is one (or more) of the most valuable cooking tips/lessons that you’ve learned and wished someone had told you sooner?brown sugar should always be packed into the measuring cup
flour should never be scooped out with the measuring cup as that packs it down. instead it should be spooned gently into the measuring cup to avoid it becoming packed in which will ruin the recipe you’re trying to follow.
before measuring sticky ingredients like molasses or corn syrup, lightly spray the measuring cup with non-stick spray and it will slide right out.
Quote:also, what is one thing you’d still like to learn?how to make a seared steak with compound butter. i keep seeing them do that on shows like masterchef and hells kitchen & i’ve never tried it, but i want to!
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January 17, 2015 at 1:35 pm #460420
dayaneales
I want to learn how to cook fish without drying it out and turning it to mush. I also want to learn how to cook different cuts of meat. Do you braise tenderloin?
Do you broil chops? etc. so that the meat is tender but then I can start buying cheaper cuts of meat again.
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January 17, 2015 at 1:44 pm #460421
LewdMeal
Quote:what is one (or more) of the most valuable cooking tips/lessons that you’ve learned and wished someone had told you sooner?i really wish someone had told me that a long time ago so i would have stopped wasting my time searing steaks!
Quote:also, what is one thing you’d still like to learn?i want to know how to make my own sriracha sauce, it’s hard to find here and expensive when i can find it!
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January 18, 2015 at 11:20 pm #460452
doggiedog4
This kind of thinking was not taught to me in home ec. Most modern cookbooks have a picture and ingredient list which often makes me want to buy the exact ingredients listed to make the yummy looking thing the chef came up with.
I have two things I’d love to learn dealing with cooking. 1) How to make a “French Peasant Loaf.” It’s a round loaf of french bread with chewy wheat berries inside of it.
Here’s an example of a free .pdf book like I speak of, I haven’t had any issues reading anything on this website. This one is from 1918, so keep that in mind with some of the err… “tasty” recipes that they cover at times.
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February 18, 2015 at 2:55 am #460761
tweezle
I wish someone would have told me that the photos in the cookbooks are staged and you’ll probably never end up with a dish that looks as gorgeous as they appear in the books.
I still want to learn how to make my grandmother’s spinach soup. I have been searching everywhere for a recipe that was like hers – so far close, but there’s still something missing.
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August 20, 2015 at 2:56 am #462011
90quattrocoupe
10 – 15 seconds in the toaster and 15 seconds in the microwave. Soft bread. I wish I had learn this before I got old.
Greg W.
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August 21, 2015 at 12:05 am #462018
mrskorba
Answer to second part/ still like to learn, how to adjust recipes for more or less people, like if the recipe is for 10 people adjust it correctly down for 2 people and the opposite. I asked for my Moms recipes when she passed away thats all I asked for. I have books, and boxes of books, and recipe boxes and recipe cards coming out of my ears!
And they are for all different things and all different sizes. I have no idea how to adjust them all.
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August 29, 2015 at 6:55 pm #462081
90quattrocoupe
Answer to the first part/ learned sooner, how to properly dice an onion
Answer to second part/ still like to learn, how to adjust recipes for more or less people, like if the recipe is for 10 people adjust it correctly down for 2 people and the opposite. I asked for my Moms recipes when she passed away thats all I asked for. I have books, and boxes of books, and recipe boxes and recipe cards coming out of my ears!
i know it would be a pita, but you may want the think about scanning the recipes you want. at least with my wife, she did not like or use all the recipes in any particular cookbook. so we started scanning the pages/recipes she really wanted to keep or try.
we made computer files according to the alphabet for them. after we had all the files she wanted, we started printing them on 8 1/2X11 sheets of paper. Slipped them into sheet protectors and put them in 3 ring binders, in alphabetical order.
Not saying this doesn’t take some time, but in the long run it was better than having 43 cookbooks, and who knows how many hand written recipes laying around.
Greg W.
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August 29, 2015 at 9:54 pm #462083
mrskorba
I know how he just likes doing it more than I do lol. Im the baker. I used to go through them all as a little girl and look through all the books and help her go through all the recipe cards in the boxes she had and when she had new recipes she make a stack of new ones and wait for me to “help” her put them in.
Its just great memories, before she passed she asked everybody what they wanted of hers, and thats all I wanted 🙂 So one day I will find something I like to display them and till then they will just be sitting on my table so that I see them everyday. My husband is the one who searches online for all his wild recipes and rubs and marinades and sauces especially for smoking meats. He hordes them and wants to pass them down to our sons.
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September 7, 2015 at 8:05 pm #462151
Jules4
@Budget101 690195 wrote:
Welcome to a Budget101 Beat the Clock Challenge! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to answer the following Challenge Question before the clock runs out!
they also taught kids how to cook. not how to be a magnificent chef, but how to measure certain items properly, how to use powdered milk and other such tips. which brings us to our challenge question:
The Challenge Question is : Two part question!
also, what is one thing you’d still like to learn?
wondering how to play? hit the reply button and answer the challenge question! (seriously, that’s it)what is the goodie giveaway for this challenge?
Learn More about Budget101 Challenges Here!
good luck!© Can Stock Photo Inc. / 3dalia
i amazing thing i have learned about is putting a piece of bread in with your cookies so they always stay soft. i know it only asks for one but i would love to share 2 great things.The other is whenever your making a box mix of brownies or cake mix, you still add everything it calls for. But when you get to the oil I always add extra and it makes your cakes and brownies soo super moist (but not runny or uncooked) I have always got so many compliments on my cakes and brownies of how great they are and always never dry and always so moist. If it calls for a 1/2 cup I will actually add anywhere from 2/3 cups or 3/4 cups oil instead total of oil. I still add the same amount of water and eggs it calls for.
I have always wanted to learn how to actually decorate wedding cakes and even beautiful regular cakes. I also would love how to actually can more things then I already know. Like how to can fruit in real juice instead of heavy or any type of syrup.
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