Pre-cooked spiral cut hams -- also known as "city hams" -- were always my favourite part of Easter. Since there is no danger of undercooking, we're free to focus flavour. Heating and serving may seem simple enough, but you can overdo it in the oven. This leads to a dry, chewy pork product, and nobody wants that. Easter may be over - but how can you make your pre-cooked ham taste better?
When we last rounded up our staff's Weekly Upgrades, our editors were installing our own bidets, cutting back on caffeine, and protecting ourselves from exercise-induced injury.
Slow cookers are a great tool for keeping food warm, but condensation can collect on the lid and drip down onto your delicious dishes. This isn't so bad with soups and stews, but for less liquidy foods like mashed potatoes and mac and cheese, it can be a real pain. Luckily, there's a cheap and easy solution: All you need is a kitchen towel.
Happy St Patrick's Hangover Day, and welcome to a particularly on-theme instalment of Will It Sous Vide?, the column where I make things with my immersion circulator.
Eating well when you're extremely busy can be challenging, but turning to fast food or highly-processed convenience meals -- or worse, not eating at all -- only compounds the problem. Embracing a few of the shortcuts below can help keep you fed and nourished while cutting down on time and effort.
Breakfast made in a slow cooker is already a fairly streamlined affair, but making slow cooker breakfast kits makes for an even easier morning meal routine.
You've probably heard of apple butter, but almost any fruit can be made into a delicious, spreadable butter. You just need a bunch of fruit, a cup of sugar, a pinch of salt, some lemon and your trusty slow cooker.
If you're tired of the same ol' tomato sauce that comes in the plastic bottle, you can make your own at home with minimal effort or cooking skills.
Dutch ovens are fantastic tools in the kitchen, but they can be pricey and not everyone has one. If you want to cook some classic Dutch oven recipes with a slow cooker instead, here's how.
If you're in charge of making breakfast for your whole household, here's the easiest way to poach a bunch of eggs at once.
Making a good beef stew takes some time, but a longer cook time doesn't necessarily translate to better flavour and texture for your beef. In fact, shortening the recommended cook time of most recipes will make for juicier, less-pulpy beef stew.
