woensdag 29 juni 2011

#02 Ten random tips for baking and cooking..

01: Like I said in my first post, make sure that your hands are nice and cold when you plan to knead dough, otherwise it will stick to you hands like glue. By making your hands cold with some icecubes, it should stick less!

02: When baking minced meat (gehakt), you don't need to use any forms of butter or oil. It is actually already fat enough to bake itself. Less fattening too!

03: After you've cooked rice and you want to pour the water out, instead of using a strainer (vergiet) and getting rice all over your kitchen, just put a fork between the pot and the lid, just slide it in between and hold the lid as tightly to the pot with oven mitts and start pouring the water out! Less dishes to wash as well :D.

04: When you have french bread you have to heat up or finish baking (afbakbrood :D), then you should slightly wetten both sides with some water. It gives a better, less crunchy result.

05: Instead of peeling your potatoes, you can just clean them with a soft brush or sponge. Just rub the dirt off, and cook and bake them. It's said that eating potatoes with their skin on is healthier.

06: Talking about potatoes! When you cook them for 15-20 minutes (Depending on what potato you have), it will take less time for you to bake them afterwards.

07: By putting some salt or a small lump of butter in the water in which you are cooking you can prevent it from boiling over when it seems to be about to happen...

08: When cooking pasta, spaghetti, rice and etcetera, add some bouillon/broth to give it some extra flavour. Seriously, when you put enough of that **** in there, you will eat that spaghetti DRY.

09: Try to match the times you need to cook and bake things. For example, you need your rice to cook 10 to 12 minutes, but the meat you baught is done in 4 minutes, while the veggies need almost 20 minutes (like corn!). It doesn't need to be on the dot, just make sure that one thing isn't cooling down for 10 minutes, while the other is still hot but underdone.

10: Always read a new recipe through and through and through... so that you aren't overtaken by the fact that you have to prepare a meal for 4 other people within one hour and you overlooked the fact that it takes 3 hours to prepare 8D! Or that the cake you want to make is made for a 20cm spring cake tin, which you don't have. (That last one happened to me, but luckily I was prepared, as I started with the cake one day earlier!)

-- So anyone else got tips or hints for in the kitchen :D ?--

1 opmerking:

  1. Hi femke yes I have very inportent tip
    When your making meatballs, for you begin put dan first a plastic sandwich bag open neer your work space ,so when your mam ring on te phone put your dirty hand in the bag en your phone stay clear from meat haah by byu your mams

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