food tips
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Do You Like Making Homemade Beef Jerky? 5 Tips to Do It Better
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You tried it once, and now your family is hooked. But your beef jerky can get even better and this is how. We all began making our own beef jerky after Chantzy W showed us the technique in this post. Since then, we’ve made variations like this Teriyaki Beef Jerky, which is a crowd favorite.
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How to Serve a Perfectly Cooked Steak on Shabbos
It makes sense that we always prepare slow-braised meats for Shabbat. But is it even possible to have a medium-rare steak? Actually, yes. I remember, years ago, when my children were very young and not yet meat eaters, I would prepare a steak for my husband for the main dish on Friday night. We definitely
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How to Cut Sweet Potato Fries – Step By Step
Learn how to cut your own fries and you won’t have to buy the pre-cut ones anymore. There’s no real secret to cutting pretty sweet potato – or regular potato – fries. Just take the time to do each step and your fries will look just like the ones you get at your favorite fast
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How to Keep Grated Potatoes from Turning Brown
Now you can grate potatoes in advance for kugel and yapchik and they’ll stay white! For the times that Pesach leads right into Shabbos, I needed to come up with a way to have my potatoes grated in advance for this Yapchik. Previously, if I left grated potatoes in the fridge for more than an
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The 9×13 Life: How to Make Farfel in the Oven
Make this Shabbos staple in one pan with no pots or cleanup required! We’ve changed so much of how we cook over the last few years here on BCP. We started creating 9×13 dinners that are easy, quick and delicious…then it was no-mixer cakes…then we began baking dishes we usually prepare on stove top, saving
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Use Leftover Challah for Homemade Croutons
Have lots of extra challah or bread? Turn them into flavorful toppers for your salads! Are you sometimes faced with lots of extra challah after Shabbos? How about half a loaf of rye that’s going stale at the end of the week? Don’t toss it! A couple of simple steps and you’ll have some amazing
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House Full of Picky Eaters? How to Get Kids to Try New Foods
I know, I’m in the same boat as you, with a houseful of picky eaters just the like. But we can get our kids to expand their palate–even if just a bit–and this is how. My resolve was tested that night. “I don’t want schnitzel,” my 3-year-old screamed as she flung a piece of chicken
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What Do You Have in the Freezer for Yom Tov? Oh, Just Some Crumbs.
Get your crumbs ready now and your Yom Tov desserts will be mostly done. Many of our favorite desserts involve some kind of crumb topping. Fruit desserts are very popular, especially now when Rosh Hashanah means apples … and then Sukkos is the time we love those warm desserts. But you know what’s really great
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This Hack Makes It So Much Easier to Pour Oil
Do you always pour too much oil when you want just a little bit? There are some hacks that seem so minor but they make your life so much easier. Like this tomato paste hack. Never again do you have to scrape out tomato paste from the can. You know that feeling when you grab
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Have Your Eggs Been Harder to Peel Lately?
Sometimes, hard-boiled eggs peel like a breeze, and sometimes it’s almost impossible. Every once in a while you boil some eggs that stubbornly refuse to peel. We wrote a post a while back on the best way to boil an egg (see this post) and in the last paragraph we mentioned – “And the cold
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