Category: Kitchen Skills
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Tips, techniques, and simple strategies to help readers plan, prepare, cook, and use ingredients with more confidence.
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Time-Saving Strategies for Easier Meals
These time-saving strategies can help you prep balanced meals with less time and effort.
Half-Scratch Cooking
Have you tried half-scratch cooking? Learn how this approach can save time, reduce waste, and help you create nourishing meals.
Cooking For a Veggie-Hating Adult? Don’t Give Up!
Do you cook regularly for someone who bristles at Brussels sprouts or shudders at spinach? If so, you know how frustrating it can be to get well-rounded meals onto the table. Taking advantage of seasonal or local produce offerings is even harder. It can be enough to cause even the most patient meal planner to want to throw in the towel. But, like I wrote last year when I covered how to handle veggie-shunning kids, you don’t need to resign yourself to never-ending sides of potatoes or corn.
Cooking with Veggie Purees
Using purees is an additional and tasty way to benefit from all the nutritional goodness in vegetables.
Baking with White Whole Wheat Flour & Vital Gluten
In my retail dietitian role, I often run into folks who are trying to move from packaged breads and boxed baking mixes toward developing their own breads and baked goods. As someone who considers herself a decent cook, but not a baker, I always admire the commitment to food science that these individuals are embracing in their home kitchens.
Alli’s Sample Meal Plan
I’m a meal planner. After all, is there any other way to feed a family of four that’s going in different directions every day, leaving me with little time to make dinner? I also hate to waste food. With both attributes in mind, I offer you this menu that will take your busy household from Sunday to Saturday with more home-cooked meals, less time in the kitchen, and likely less waste too. Scroll all the way down for a shopping list.