Tomato sauce is delicious and versatile, perfect for topping pizzas or adding flavor to stews. Making your own tomato sauce can be an easy way to save money. However, it’s important to store the sauce properly. So how can you store your homemade tomato sauce? You can use plastic containers or resealable freezer bags, but…
Vinegar is a pantry staple and powerhouse ingredient. It often brings much-needed acidity to a dish to brighten its flavors, is an important ingredient in many of our favorite condiments, can be used as a preservative and certain kinds of vinegar can also be great cleaning agents – vinegar can do it all! Rice vinegar…
Home cooks are always looking for ways to save on buying extra things. Constant purchases of things like oil, spices, flour, and special sauces add to the cost. Some home chefs try to save money by reusing items instead of throwing them away. Yes, you can reuse the oil multiple times. Most restaurants use the…
Chorizos are super tasty and they usually come in a thin skin. Now, whether or not this skin is edible may be a mystery to you. Especially, if you’ve never had or cooked Chorizos before. So, you might wonder, are you supposed to peel Chorizos? Usually, chorizo does not require peeling off its skin. But…
So, you’ve bought a paella pan for your steaks, fillets and roasts. Whenever we bring home a new kitchen utensil determining whether or not it rusts can impact how we use and store it. So, it’s natural for you to wonder, do paella pans rust? Yes, paella pans can rust if not used and maintained…
When you have a craving for fresh-baked cinnamon rolls out of your oven, the last thing you want to do is cook them improperly. So, here’s the low-down on cooking them on aluminum foil. Whether canned rolls or from scratch, the answer is yes, you can use foil as the baking surface. Cinnamon rolls bake…
In between our hectic weekday schedules, preparing meals every day can feel stressful. Amidst all that, you can feel relaxed and on top of your game with some meal-prepared salad. Having a big bowl of salad in the fridge ready to dig in can save a lot of time and money. But what you may…
Microwaving cold Lasagna is a recipe for disaster. The noodles get all chewy and the sauce becomes dehydrated. So, if you cook a batch and are not ready to dig in right away, the best option is to keep it warm. But, how to keep Lasagna warm without messing up its taste? The best method…
If you cooked some vegetables a bit too early or your guests are coming up a bit later than what you planned, then keeping them warm is essential to maintain their taste. It is scenarios like these that make you feel knowing how to keep vegetables warm after cooking would be a handy skill. So,…
Food is essentially a perishable item, and all perishable objects require you to maintain them in the appropriate way so they can last as long as possible. One of the things you need to be vigilant regarding when it comes to storing and consuming food is the formation of molds, which are microscopic fungi that…