Tips & Tricks
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How to Cut Meat Across the Grain
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Cutting across the grain is basic to serving good meat – yet it confuses so many of us. Here’s how to get it right. The biggest mistake people make when serving meat is slicing it the wrong way. This seems like it’s not a big deal, but it is! The number one thing, people always…
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Wait! Don’t Take Out That 9×13 (There’s a Better Version for You)
Deep 9×13 pans may work best for lots of foods, but sometimes, a shallow 9×13 pan is better. Pesach is coming, and your pantry may be stocked with lots and lots of 9×13 pans, so you can fill them up and fill your freezer. But wait. Do you want to conserve that freezer space? Foods…
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Make the Cutest Square Cookies Using This Easy Hack (+ They’re Egg-Free)
I don’t like rolling cookies into balls. With this hack, it’s not really necessary. When my oldest daughter was three years old, she had one of her first playdates, and I decided to bake cookies with the kids. After we had made the dough, each one taking turns adding ingredients, one of the moms arrived…
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How to Freeze Your Ground Beef – and Use It, Too!
Do you have ground beef sitting in your freezer, waiting to be used? You know that mound of ground beef you have sitting in the freezer? You keep forgetting to take it out to defrost the day before you need it and it just doesn’t defrost fast enough to use the same day. Well, here’s…
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The 7 “Don’ts” of Frying Donuts
Frying donuts happens only once a year, so they better be perfect. Avoid these 7 no-gos and they will be. With Chanukah here a fryfest is impending! Whether it’s the hot oil or the cleanup, there’s certainly some work involved with frying at home, but if the irresistible freshest doughnuts is what you’re after, then…
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3 New Ways to Top Challah (or Fake That You Made It)
No time to bake from scratch, but still want to call a challah your own? Change up your own or store-bought challah dough with these three toppings. Anyone can tell you that the quickest, easiest hack for Shabbos challah is to buy it freshly baked from the bakery. That wouldn’t be much of a post.…
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Make a Golden Honey Challah for Rosh Hashanah – So Simple!
All it takes is one simple idea to make your challah a centerpiece on Rosh Hashanah. Honey With all the baking that I do, when it comes to Rosh Hashanah, my annual go-to is this Golden Honey Challah. I usually top it with golden sugar crystals, but any topping is fine. It’s simply to make.…
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This Trick Will Make You Want to Drizzle Chocolate Over Everything
Do you prefer a neat chocolate drizzle? Or something a little more natural and organic? Here are two easy tricks to drizzle chocolate over just about anything. Melt the Chocolate First, melt the chocolate to drizzle. In a microwave-safe dish, microwave chopped chocolate for 30-second intervals, with occasional stirring, until the chocolate is all melted.…
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How Much Dough Belongs in Each Kind of Challah Pan?
Yes, you can make perfect, evenly-sized challah that fill your pan! Here’s a guide. Do you want your challahs to be evenly sized, or better yet, do you ever wonder how much is the ideal amount of dough to fit in each size challah pan? Here’s a guide. The weights listed below refers to the…
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How to Freeze Anything
Want to get ahead with the cooking, but don’t know what you can freeze and what should be prepared fresh? Here’s a guide to help. Perhaps the most common question we receive on any recipe is in regards to freezing it. Can I freeze it? How do you reheat it? So let’s get straight to…
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