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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
Meat and poultry prices are rising, and changing which cuts you buy goes only so far to save money. So, if you have to pay a lot anyway, you want the quality to be as good as possible. How good the meat and poultry from a particular market is depends on a few factors, including the source of the meat, the conditions the animals were raised in, the treatment of the meat by the market, and the attentiveness of the staff. It's a bonus if the meat department offers special services like custom cuts.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
Rachael Ray has long been a favorite of Food Network viewers. Her appeal is that she is an everyday cook like the rest of us who understands the value of fast, easy meals. Whether she's giving viewers tips on how to make stuffing mushrooms easier or reducing the time you need to prepare avocados, she focuses on getting tasty food on the table that looks like it took longer to make than it really did.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
The food you can buy at baseball stadiums has grown into a huge deal, far beyond the hot dogs, peanuts, and Cracker Jack boxes of yore. Concession companies like Aramark and Delaware North -- along with local restaurants -- now compete to produce the most tempting foods possible. Baseball games are no longer just about watching the players compete; they're now as much about the near-gourmet meals you can order at concession stands all over the park.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
The quality and presentation of chocolate along with the rarity of the cacao beans used can make the chocolate terribly cheap or super expensive. Chocolate companies have gone as far as to partner with jewelry companies.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
Distilled white vinegar is an all-around cleaning solution that works in more ways than one. It's a wonderful cleaner because it's highly acidic compared to other vinegars. Culinary white vinegar has 5% acidity and 95% water; it's suitable for both cooking and cleaning. By the way, "cleaning" vinegar has 6% acidity, and that extra percent makes cleaning vinegar several times stronger -- but that also means that you never want to use cleaning vinegar in food or appliances that touch food.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
Your favorite celebrity chefs spend a lot of time creating and demonstrating your favorite recipes in books, online, and on TV. But these celebrity chefs have favorite recipes of their own that you might want to try, and they include several desserts that you may not have heard of. Some of these favorites are classics, and some are new creations -- and they're all comforting and satisfying in their own ways.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
Food has long been an indicator of wealth or poverty, but many dishes that once signaled a person was very wealthy are now seen as cheap and available for everyone. Given how food production techniques and import processes have changed over the centuries, this actually makes sense. Way back when, before you could waltz into a supermarket and wander aisle upon aisle of abundant food from across the globe, you were at the mercy of time and distance.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
People have been using baking soda for years as part of a "natural" cleaning arsenal. However, with inflation being a concern, you may want to give the abrasive but gentle powder a second look even if you haven't been interested in more natural cleaners. It's inexpensive and can clean more in your kitchen than you thought possible. Used on its own or mixed with lemon juice, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, or soap, baking soda is a helpful cleaner that's very easy to find and store for a long time.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
Adding fresh beef into your diet is an easy way to get more protein. However, not all cuts have equal amounts. In fact, not all pieces of the same cut have equal amounts. This is because the fat and bone in the piece reduce how much protein it might actually have. Two T-bone steaks that are equal in size, for example, could have larger or smaller bones and more or less fat. One piece could have less actual meat and thus less protein than the other piece, despite both being the same cut and size.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You likely have your favorite recipes from celebrity chefs that you always make (or dream about making), but have you ever stopped to think about what those chefs like to eat? They have their own favorite recipes that they love to make for themselves, as well as go-to ingredients and prepared foods.
