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Cooking Tips

Stretch and Fold Sourdough: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide (Video Tutorial)

A top-down view of sourdough bread dough proofing in a hair net lined banneton basket on a floral tea towel, surrounded by essential scoring tools including a wood-handled lame, a UFO-style lame, and a flour duster

The Ultimate Sourdough Tools Guide: Everything You Need (and What You Don’t)

A sliced loaf of homemade bread showing the internal crumb, a perfect example of sourdough for beginners with a golden crunchy crust and soft interior.

Sourdough for Beginners: The Plain English Glossary of Everything You Need to Know

When my grandmother was cooking KitchenAid stand mixers were THE best you could get. That is no longer true. Times have changed and there is a better, more powerful, workhorse stand mixer onthe market!

The Great Stand Mixer Face Off: Bosch vs. KitchenAid vs. WonderMix – Which Mixer Do You Need?

A home canned jar of peaches is lifted out of the water bath canner with the jar lifter.

Water Bath Canning For Beginners

This image is pictures of five different rice and bean recipes. There is a bowl of black bean dip with green onions and chips. There is a plate of taco balls with cheese and guacamole. There is a platter of Mexican rice. And there is a bowl of Chicken and Rice casserole.

What To Make With Rice and Beans

This picture shows one of the three ways to cut a pineapple in this tutorial. A pineapple sits next to a pottery bowl of pineapple chunks on a brown table.

How To Cut A Pineapple 3 Ways

On the left you see half of a cake that rose flat and fluffy. On the right you see half a cake that didn't rise flat. This cake has darker edges and is dense.

How to Bake a Flat Cake Every Time

A lovely string of red peppers hangs from a pot rack drying for winter use.

Drying Peppers

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