Pro Cooking Tips: Braising Meats for Tenderness and Flavor
Braising is a way of cooking meat long and slow so by the end of the cooking process, the meat is so tender that it literally falls apart when you spear a chunk on your fork. Sounds great doesn’t it? So how can you achieve this seemingly impossible outcome for a cheap cut of meat?
Build A Better Burger With 16 Ingredients Or Less
The Sutter Home’s Build a Better Burger ® Contest is a popular burger contest and annual cook-off where contestants enter their favorite burger recipes in the hope of winning a fabulous $100,000 top prize. Over the years, winning burger recipes have included all kinds of weird and wonderful ingredients ranging from banana duck chutney to shitake mushroom ketchup, and for the amateur cook, many of them were so complicated that recreating the complex flavor seemed impossible. So can you build a better burger with sixteen ingredients or less?
YES! You Can be a Food Gourmet and a Skilled Gourmet Cook Too
Everybody loves a great cook—they can concoct delicious recipes from thin air and produce a fabulous meal with less than an hour’s notice. Men adore women who can cook and women adore men who can cook, so if you are a skilled gourmet cook, you are on to a winner no matter which side you bat for!
