At-home cooking can be simple with these tips and tricks to make your kitchen work for you.
If you're an aspiring home cook who's not used to spending much time in the kitchen, the struggle can be real. Everything seems to take longer than you expect. Maybe you don't have all the right ingredients. Wow, onions really do make you cry. Do you truly have to peel ginger before you grate it?
3. Always reserve some pasta water. Adding a splash of pasta water to the sauce is the best way to help it bind to the noodles. 6. When you rinse rice in a bowl of water to remove the excess starch, don't pour the water down the drain. You can save it to wash your hair or your face. It contains trace amounts of vitamins and minerals that encourage hair growth and soothe your skin. Or use it to water your houseplants, which might enjoy the extra starch. Just monitor them carefully, as rice water can also feed harmful soil bacteria.7. Keep a bag of veggie scraps in the freezer.
10. If you love fresh herbs but hate when they wilt in your fridge, simply chop them up, place them in an ice-cube tray, and cover them with olive oil. Your frozen herb cubes are perfect for adding to soups, stews, roasts, and braises — or melting over roasted veggies or mashed potatoes. 14. Crack eggs on a flat surface, not on the rim of your mixing bowl, which can leave errant bits of broken shell in your dish. And use your fingertip to scrape out the last of the egg white from the shell. It may not seem like much, but if you're making a frittata with 10 eggs, those whites add up.
17. Forgot to soften butter ahead of time? You can try microwaving it at short intervals, but that often leads to a partially melted mess rather than the pliable room-temperature state you need for many baking projects. Try this instead: Fill a tall glass with boiling water, then let it sit for five minutes to heat the glass. Pour out the water and invert the glass over cold sticks of butter on your counter top.
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