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Ditch Your Dysfunctional Diet And Learn To Love Your Food If you want the juiciest, most flavourful steak you can cook, look for plenty of fat throughout the meat. Serious Eat’s guide to grilling steak says marbling is a more important quality to look for than just the grade of the beef.
Cutting up a bunch of cherry tomatoes doesn’t take that long, but if you want to speed up the process, food blog Well Done Chef recommends placing them between two lids and then slicing through them to cut all the tomatoes at once.
Naan, kulcha and other oven-baked flatbreads are delicious, but to get them you usually have to go out or order delivery from a spot with a nice tandoor oven. If you have even a little backyard or patio space, you can make your own with a bucket, some terracotta pots, some charcoal and a little elbow grease. You’ll have the inside of your backyard tandoor oven covered in baking bread in no time.
Bacon is delicious, and it’s really not difficult to cook, but it is easy to screw up if you don’t cook it long enough or leave it on the heat for too long. The folks at America’s Test Kitchen have a method for frying bacon that results in perfectly crispy strips every single time. The secret ingredient? Water.
If you’re trying to watch what you eat, or your doctor has put you on a diet, you know what it’s like to struggle with gnawing hunger even though you’re all out of calories for the day. Sure, chugging a few glasses of water and going to bed may help keep you from raiding the fridge before the sun comes up, but being hungry still sucks. Thankfully, the blog Syatt Fitness has a solid list of foods you can eat and enjoy even if you’re counting calories.
If you love chocolate milk or stirring a little bit of chocolate flavour into your coffee, there’s no reason to buy an overpriced box of desiccated powder. You can make your own cocoa mix at home, ready for mixing, with higher quality cocoa. Here’s how.
Many of the cooking methods to extract maximum flavour, such as slow roasting or slow cooking, are, well, slow. If you don’t have time for that, you can still make your dishes as flavorful as possible with a few cooking tricks, including frying your spices.
Plastic wrap and storage containers definitely have their place in most kitchens, but if you have no love for the stuff and wish there were a way to store your vegetables and produce without resorting to disposable bags or a fridge full of containers, you do have other options to keep your food fresh.
If you’re looking for a way to spice up your morning brew with some flavour without adding a load of sugar or artificial sweeteners, the solution may be as close as your spice cabinet. A teaspoon of cinnamon stirred into a cup of coffee or a cinnamon stick at the bottom of your cup can add plenty of flavour without adding anything potentially unhealthy, especially for people watching their refined sugar intake.
Both chefs and grandmothers have said for generations that we eat with our eyes first — if a meal looks delicious, you’ll enjoy it even more. Scientific studies have said the same thing, but now science explains why good-looking food — or even images of good-looking food — can make bland or otherwise subpar dishes taste better and feel more satisfying, just in time for you to hack your next diet meal.
