Posts by April Iser
List of Dinner Ideas
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…
Read MoreStewing Cooking Method
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…
Read MoreSautéing Cooking Method
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…
Read MoreDouble Boiler Cooking Method
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…
Read MoreRoasting Cooking Method
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…
Read MoreBaking Cooking Method
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…
Read MoreParenting Goals
As a parent, I have many responsibilities, as well as many important goals. However, if I fail at all else in life, the four parenting goals that I strive to achieve along my journey of becoming a #MotherhoodMaster are: As a parent, I want to support my kids’ strengths, as well as their weaknesses. I…
Read MoreIs Wax Paper the Same as Parchment Paper
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…
Read MoreUnschooling Part 4 – How to Start Unschooling
When learning how to start unschooling, it can take a while to find out what works for you and for your children, to get into your own groove, to create a routine that works for everyone, and, more importantly, to understand that learning happens naturally through life experiences. When figuring out how to start unschooling,…
Read MoreUnschooling Part 3 – Deschooling
Public schools have never been more than hopelessly, flawed attempts at distributing commercialized, in-the-box curriculums to a large number of recipients. It’s basically, in my opinion anyways, just another way of mass population management. I mean, we can’t have a lot of free thinkers running around, can we? Schooling is learning how to follow instructions,…
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