Miscellaneous Food Tips

by Maricar on February 25th, 2008

I found the rest of the tips that go with the miscellaneous cooking and cleaning tips I posted a while back.

Here are some more interesting and useful tips for various types of food:

Ripening bananas

* Take bananas apart if you want them to keep longer. Leaving them connected at the stem ripens them faster.

Storing cheese

* Store opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil, to keep them fresher and mold-free longer.

Choosing bell peppers

* Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating raw. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Cooking ground beef

* Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef to help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

Scrambled eggs

* To make scrambled eggs or omelets richer, add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese or heavy cream, and beat as usual.

Read the rest of the tips at A Little Extra!

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