Cooking Tips & Articles |
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Working "Areas" in Your Kitchen
Your first thought is that, "My kitchen is organized", but take a good look; is it really? Do you have everything in a handy place, is everything with 'like' things and are all of your canned goods within...
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Organizing Your Kitchen
The kitchen is the heart of the home. It’s the most used room in the house, used for multiple activities like eating, entertaining, doing homework, etc. We go there when we are tired, hungry and stressed...
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Making the Most of Dinnertime: Start When Children are Young
Picture Norman Rockwell, the classic American painter, alive today and commissioned to paint a scene of our generation’s family dinner...
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Kitchen Essentials
Every kitchen should be equipped with some essential equipment and common ingredients but the novice cook may not know where to begin. Learn what utensils, cookware, basic ingredients, and more than every kitchen...
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Inexpensive holiday gifts from your kitchen
Attractive Cookie Mix As a stay at home Mom I often seem to have more time to bake that the teachers in my children's schools. I pick my favorites...
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Fridge Cleaning Guide
1. Turn off the temperature control knob on the inside of your fridge. 2. If your fridge has a removable drip pan underneath, take it out to be cleaned. 3. Remove all food from your fridge, including items on...
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Back to school - Suppertime survival
After the lazy days of summer and casual eating, picnics and barbecues, it'll soon be time to get organized to deal with back-to-school schedules and providing more regular and nutritious meals for your family...
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Happy Birthday Canada
Canada Day is a time of celebration for all Canadians. From barbecues and picnics to parades and festivals, there is no shortage of family-fun activities. To help you make Canada's 141st anniversary of...
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Baking Through the Ages
Over the past five decades, baking trends have come and gone but the key to baking delicious, mouth-watering desserts has never changed: pure, natural butter. "When it comes to baking, it always comes back to...
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Preserving Your Treasured Family Recipes
Recipes are part of a family's heritage. Every family has favorite recipes that have been passed from generation to generation. Some are handwritten on recipe cards, and others are tucked away in old, worn...
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Packed Lunches with Pizzazz
Packed Lunches with Pizzazz (NC)- To liven up lunches for either work or school, a good rule of thumb is to include three to four of the food groups from Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide. The following...
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Slowing it Down
Fall and winter are the perfect times to embrace the slow food movement. The fall harvest brings many crops that are well suited to cooking over long periods of time. How comforting to come in from a cold winter...
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Turkey 101: The ABCs of Turkey Talk
Cooking a turkey dinner with all the fixings can be a daunting task for any cook. Follow these tips from The Canadian Turkey Marketing Agency to help take the guesswork out of preparing the perfect holiday...
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Baking Lessons
Most kids love to help in the kitchen, especially with baking. Sure, it might take a little longer and end up being a bit messier, but it’s a great opportunity for them to learn valuable life skills...
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Eating Outside the Box
Lunch Waste Facts ALUMINUM FOIL: More than 20 million Hershey's kisses are wrapped with 133 square miles of foil every day ALUMINUM + TIN CANS: In the time it takes you to read this line, 50,000+ 12-oz...
