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How to prepare chicken wings for baking
For some reason, we have a tendency to associate some recipes with Summer only. When the Winter blues hit us, it is one of the first things we miss. However, it doesn't need to depress us so much if we put our minds to work. Let's take chicken wings! We all love to barbecue chicken wings and enjoy them while sitting on our backyards, especially on weekends. So, how do we bring that feeling to the Winter months and how can we enjoy chicken wings in the comfort of our living room? How can we have that crispy feeling to them without frying them? Simple: let's bake them! These wings...
Awesome cold cuts’ platters
Are you entertaining? Or perhaps you would like to surprise your family on the weekend with something different to taste while enjoying some time together? We often have clients come to our store asking us for ideas to prepare different platters with cold cuts. Nothing gives us more pleasure than to be able to give you suggestions on cold cuts and even on how to arrange them on a platter. These occurrences have inspired us to write this blog post for you. Hopefully it will help you come up with amazing creations. Remember to choose quality over quantity. A good combination...
How to oven cook steak to perfection
You feel like having a steak (t-bone, bone-in...) for dinner, but there is a problem: it's Winter. How do you enjoy a steak dinner during the freezing cold days? There is always an alternative. Learning how to oven cook steak isn’t difficult, but it definitely needs attention that it doesn’t need when you’re grilling it outside. The first step is let them come to room temperature after thawing or being refrigerated. This usually takes about an hour or so. After the hour, coat your steaks on both sides in about 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Sprinkle seasoning salt and pepper on...
Oven Roasted Pork Chops
When you want to cook up deliciousness in your kitchen for a special weekend dinner, Oven Roasted Pork Chops will definitely be a crowd pleaser. Here are some tips to prepare this delicious dish for you and your family and friends to enjoy. Cooking pork is really pretty easy. The simple pork chops are seared on the stovetop and then roasted to perfection in the oven. The pork chops take just 15 minutes to prepare and cook. A cast iron skillet is an excellent choice for the recipe. Bone-in chops offer the most flavor but feel free to use boneless in the recipe. If the pork...
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Fried chicken around the world
If you go to Thailand, to the southern part of India, Korea, Greece and the southern part of the United States, you may find there is a dish common to all of these cultures, even though the recipes are different: fried chicken. It might not be a healthy choice, but who doesn't like to indulge, once in a while, in something so delicious? There are so many factors to choose from when it comes to preparing, cooking, and serving fried chicken. Stick to the classic chicken wing, or get creative and fry up breasts, drumsticks and thighs. If you are looking for ways to prepare fried...
Awesome date night ideas
Once in a while, we feel like having a nice, cozy, romantic date night at home. A home-cooked meal in an intimate setting is the way to begin and it is a great way to start the evening, especially if your partner is the one usually making dinner. There are many delicious meal ideas, many of them very simple to make, that will turn your evening into a memorable one. Let’s begin by the main event of the evening: dinner. You want to ensure you are making something delicious for your date. It is more than fine to have difficulty deciding on a recipe. It happens to the best of chefs....
The art of stew
Although they are more common during the Fall and Winter seasons, meat stews are delicious all the time and can be very healthy. Filled with tender cubes of meat and hearty vegetables, stews (beef, chicken, pork, a mix of all the meats…) are a staple dish you should have as part of your meal prep plan. A stew has been described as an assortment of foods cooked in liquid within a container with a lid. The word "stew" is said to come from the old French word estuier, meaning to enclose. Most cultural groups have created a recipe for a special stew, and there are as many...
The healthy stir-fry!
Weeknights usually call for simple, easy dinners. Who has the time or patience to be cooking for a long time after a day at work? Making easy, delicious and healthy meals is not that hard. One approach is the stir-fry. You may say: "but it's always the same thing". Think again. Once you know the basics of stir-frying, you can really prepare an endless number of delicious dinners that everyone will love. If you look up the definition of stir-fry, you will find "a fast way to cook small pieces of food in a hot pan or wok. As the name indicates, the food is constantly stirred...
Why go to a butcher shop?
Have you ever stoped to think about the reason why so many people still prefer to go to a butcher shop? In this fast paced world we live in, we have a tendency to look for the easiest, more simplified way of shopping. Nothing wrong with that. However, in doing so, we should also analyze the following question: am I really saving money and getting the best quality product I could get? Here's the thing: when shopping for meat, going to your butcher shop can save you money and will ensure you eat well from cuts of meat you simply can't find at your mainstream market,...
Summer cooking… let’s share some ideas!
Summer means cookouts! I think we can all agree that it is the perfect season to get the family and friends together and share your favourite BBQ recipes. It is fun and an excellent way of spending quality time with those closer to us. When planning your bbq recipes, you want to make sure of a few things. First, make sure you have enough food. There’s nothing worse than having more people than you thought to come over and finding out that you don’t have enough food to feed them all. Secondly, have a variety of options. Not everyone likes burgers or hotdogs. Therefore, you’ll...
Cold cut platter!
A cold cut platter is a simple, crowd-pleasing spread to have at any party. The key to putting together an amazing one is balance. A variety of cold cuts and types of pickles and palate cleansers should all complement one another. Now that summer is here, having guests over and spending a nice evening in our backyards seems to be what most of us long for all year long. How can we best entertain them? By definitely having a some cold cut platters. Choose two varieties each of pork, beef and poultry, or four varieties each of beef and pork, and have an equal amount of each. For...
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