Home cooking for children and adults
Author: Alexander Whaley
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How Many Pounds of Turkey Do You Need per Person for a Great Dinner?
Avoid disappointing anyone at your Thanksgiving dinner by knowing how many pounds of turkey to buy.
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Easy Thanksgiving Dinner planning – how much to cook for crowd sizes?
Thanksgiving Dinner planning: Find out how much turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, potatoes, vegetables, and dessert to prepare.
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Roasting Turkey? How Many Pounds of Stuffing for Thanksgiving?
Discover the perfect amount of stuffing to make for your Thanksgiving or Christmas meal. Find out how many boxes of stuffing you’ll need based on the number of guests.
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Worried about grease and your heart? 7 simple tips to avoid a greasy pizza!
Pizza is now a staple food at parties, especially where teenagers are concerned. Pizza-making is an art and a science where the right combination of cheese, dough, toppings, and baking techniques maximizes the flavor of the pizza while minimizing the grease on the pizza. Get it wrong and you get an oil slick pooling on…
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Using olive wood products? How to care for and extend their lifetime?
There is something magical about wood, a warm feeling when you hold it – a smoothness when properly finished, a sense of opulence, and a feeling of being responsible for the planet. If wood is a luxury, olive wood, which grows so slowly is doubly so. Olive wood is ideal for kitchenware as it is…
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How to select the best wood cutting board for your kitchen?
Plastic boards are out! Long live the wooden chopping boards! In a world where two clashing realities cannot be avoided – the environmental cost of plastic and the need to cut food up, wood chopping boards have emerged as the clear winners. Wood chopping boards are hard-wearing, self-healing, and preserve a knife-edge. Not only that,…
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Cinnabon-like Hot Cross Buns! How to make perfection?
This deliciously spiced dough is simply too good to be kept for Easter – it deserves a place at Christmas and any family outing, really. Each bun is marked with a traditional cross, baked until golden-brown, and finished off with the most delectable orange marmalade glaze. While the buns are super soft, they can be…
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Hot Cross Buns – a taste of Easter never to be missed!
Easter is back! Easter Egg hunts, chocolate bunnies, and spicy hot cross buns… the perfect way to escape winter and start your spring and summer seasons. Rewatching the old Great British Bake Off, with Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, I was reminded of just how much I love these easter traditions and it made me…
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Air Fryer spring rolls and egg rolls, how do you cook them to perfection?
Air Fryers can be used to cook spring rolls or egg rolls whether freshly made or frozen… The advantages are obvious: no need for a deep fat fryer, less mess, less oil, and less fat in the diet. Egg rolls or spring rolls prepared in the air fryer are fast to make, healthy, and most…
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Smoky barbecue mayonnaise dip – sumptuous, silky, stunning single step recipe
If you love BBQ Sauce or mayonnaise you will love this homemade Mayocue, and with a single step, it has never been so easy! Sweet, smoky, warming, barbecue mayonnaise is a dip made of 50% barbecue sauce and 50% mayonnaise. This versatile flavor-packed dip is equally good on burgers, sandwiches, eggs, or as a dip…