Posts by April Iser

Is it 5 o’clock, and you still haven’t decided what’s for dinner? Are you running out of dinner ideas? Here’s a list of dinner ideas that are delicious, affordable, and filling. They’re not always the quickest, but they’re mostly easy enough to make, and should satisfy your cravings. Although it seems like it should be…

The stewing cooking method is a combination of dry heat cooking with the use of a fat, followed by longer-term, moist heat cooking to finish. Stewing is a slow cooking process, and is generally secondary to sautéing, or to pan frying. It combines solid food ingredients, and cooks them in a liquid that thickens to…

The translation from the original word is “to jump”. This can mean the way the food sort of jumps around in the hot oil, or the way the chef tosses the food in the pan because during the sautéing cooking method, some chefs toss the ingredients in a controlled loop that promotes even cooking, and…

A double boiler is two sauce pots that fit together nicely so that the contents of the upper pot can be cooked or heated by heating the water in the lower pot. Double boilers allow food to heat gently, as well as to stay warm over a period of time. This is beneficial when heating…

If you’re talking about cooking, then roasting is to cook meat and other foods by direct exposure to dry heat. Originally, it happened on a spit over an open fire to brown, parch, or dry the foods, such as you would do with marshmallows. It could also be accomplished by embedding the food in hot…

One of the oldest cooking methods, baking uses a prolonged, dry heat in an enclosed space. An enclosed space is necessary when using the baking cooking method because it helps to distribute the heat uniformly, resulting in your foods baking evenly. Although it’s typically done in an oven, baking can be completed in hot ashes…

Both, wax paper and parchment paper, are types of coated paper, and the different papers can be used interchangeably for many tasks, but not for all of them. They’re both good for wrapping meats and other foods, for keeping your baked goods separated, and for helping to keep your work area cleaner. So, is wax…