Let me tell you a really quick story about tea that I actually heard from a friend of mine. Apparently, according to an old adage, tea was first discovered to exist in the years Before Christ. The discovery was made when an Emperor in China, Shen Nong, was boiling some...

Picture this scenario, you have gone to the store or farmer’s market and have bought a whole batch of smoked salmon. You are back home now and you realize that you will not use all the packets you have bought, let alone finish one. What to do? I have found...

Cheesecake, although is technically not a cake, is a dessert that typically has two or more layers making up its structure or form. These could be layers consisting of one layer of sweet softened cheese that is then mixed with sugar, some eggs, a bit of flavor, and then set...

Most people use water bath canning to can various foods at home. You can choose to purchase a water bath canner or simply use whatever you have at home. Water bath canning is recommended for high acid foods. Essentially, a water bath canner is a very large pot that has...

Typically, sour cream is made by allowing the cream that has been taken off the top of milk that has been left to fermented at moderate or normal temperature. Similarly, it can also be made through souring pasteurized cream using acid-producing bacteria. Sour cream is just one of those ingredients...

Traditionally broth was simply made in order to use up the parts and pieces of an animal that would otherwise be discarded due to being hard to digest. These included parts like bones, marrow, skin, feet, tendons and ligaments. Essentially what happens is that these parts are simmered together with...

Did you know that carrots can come in five different colors? That is orange, purple, red, white, and yellow. Just like everything else under the sun and most food items in our kitchens and pantries, carrots can and do go bad. Technically speaking, carrots have a relatively short shelf life...

You probably know quinoa as the most popular alternative to rice and cereals that is gluten free in use in most kitchens in this day and time. Fun fact is that quinoa is actually a seed as opposed to being a grain. Since it is something that is relatively new...

This is just one of those things that we always have in our kitchen or pantry and nobody remembers ever buying the bottle. And let us just talk about that name, how exactly do you even pronounce it? Anyway, you have the bottle in the house and are worried because...

Generally speaking, eggs tend to be safe for consumption for long amounts of time after being purchased. What most people do not know, however, is that eggs, just like all other food items in the kitchen or pantry, are perishable. It is for this reason that, ideally, eggs ought to...