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Hello All, I am Lil, just joined, cooking is passion and Icant wait to see some of your recipes and cooking tips

Do you ever use edible flowers or flower petals in your dishes? A surprising number of flowers are edible - and as far as I'm aware, if you can eat the leaves you can also eat the flowers (safety warning: I've not checked this!). Some common examples are rosemary, lavender, sage, chives, rose...

Detroit Coney Dogs in honor of CookingBites. In Detroit, you seemingly cannot travel more than 2 miles without seeing a Coney Island restaurant. So I had to pay tribute to these establishments with a classic Detroit Coney Island hot dog. Before we get into the debate of what a TRUE Coney Island...

I had 'home economics' classes from age 11-15 where we were taught cooking, nutrition and household budgeting. I didnt learn much that my mum had not taught me esp. as most of the recipes taught were traditional British - Cornish pasties, shepherds pie, Victoria sponge, etc. I branched out...

How long will it take to cook Curd Rice and Fish Fry.

I have only been a member on CookingBites for a relatively short time, but I have learned so much about cooking, ingredients, food photography, and international cuisines. Not to mention the amazing food discussions. What have you learned?

I’m currently surrounded by lavender bushes, and keen to find a culinary use for them. I have come across a few recipes for sweet dishes that use lavender, but sweet dishes are really not my thing. I am struggling to find any savoury dishes (veg, meat or fish) that use lavender. I have a couple...

I burn incense sticks quite often, I find it relaxes me. I love the lavender and the musk ones the best. I got into burning these when I started going out with a chick about 45 years ago, who was a bit different. You'de call her bohemian nowadays. I guess she was ahead of her time. My kids...

Last evenings moonrise: We encounter wild burros in the desert: Wife tending to a wild Burros cut: Police and Law enforcement Depts from around the world come here annually for their Baker Ca. to Las Vegas Nv. foot relay run. Always around the first of spring. This upcoming is the...

A thread to share simple cooking cheats! I will start with one my wife suggested last week: Brush Marmite onto a chop or piece of meat before grilling or frying. I use Marmite quite a lot in sauces to give depth and a big umami hit, but I'd never considered using it directly on meat before...

I was considering making a post today but wondered whether it would be appropriate, having little idea of the age groups into which the majority of members fit. Just to give an idea, would members be prepared to post their age group, anonymously of course, in this poll? As I shall post first...

A friend recently told me that he's quite proud of something he made last night - wet burritos - and I told him that I know the feeling of making something that turns out so good that you are proud of what you did. Then, in my usual weird way of looking at things, I immediately thought of times...

I must begin by apologising if I'm in the wrong place but I have a question about, what I would see to be, the basic fundamentals of cooking meats and with nowhere else to turn the first thing I did was go to Google, which in turn lead me here. Yesterday morning I returned home from work, to see...

A thread about when things go wrong in the kitchen, For starters, there was this vegetarian curry last week: It had a promising list of ingredients - parsnips, cauliflower, fresh ginger - a bit of a korma type curry. All went well until I decided it looked a bit bland and would probably...

A sauce is considered to be a primary liquid flavored with sautéed seasonings and ingredients. In the gourmet world, before a sauce is complete, it is usually "reduced." This helps create an evaporation effect which makes the sauce more flavorful and thicker. Sometimes sauces are strained to...

Hello, I am looking for a "neutral" cooking oil that is purely for frying beef in the pan and won't interfere with the taste of the meat. Kind regards, Eating Chicken

Jewish cuisine is something I know little about and curiously there are not many recipe books dedicated to Jewish cooking. I recently acquired a book first published in 1947: Jewish Cookery by Florence Greenberg (and revised a few times) The version I have is from 1963. I've been trying to make...

Hi awesome CookingBites home cooks :) I'm Steve Avery, the founder of a new online education platform for home cooking, with exclusive classes taught by the world's best chefs, who share and teach their favorite techniques and food through intimate storytelling and hands-on teaching. Think...

This is an article on the BBC Radio 4 website www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5w3zWw4kT6xRkSS72v2QGzv/ten-cooking-hacks-you-need-in-your-life 1. Use a wooden chopping board 2. Don't bother peeling your mushrooms 3. Salted or unsalted butter? It doesn't matter 4. Use fresh yeast when baking...

I have an enameled Cast Iron Dutch oven. This one.. Its the 7 Qt. Oval Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven in the middle of the screen. (it seems the link is not going there directly) https://www.tramontina-usa.com/product-category/cooking/1070-sauce-pots-dutch-ovens/ The instructions are poor. I...