Category: Tips
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Ask For Help! (Duh.)
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Ask for help! Chances are there are at least a few people in your life who are great cooks. Maybe your mom, maybe some of your aunts or cousins or friends, maybe even a couple of the men in your life. Maybe you know even more than you…
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Taco Tuesday!
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Taco Tuesday! I need to get better at keeping tacos in regular rotation – So many good tacos, so little time! I love tacos hard or soft, and you can stuff em with pretty much anything. And they can be a pretty QUICK meal. Especially, for instance, if…
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Leverage the Information Age to Your Advantage
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Leverage the Information Age to your advantage (whether you’re a Hater or not!) Back in the day, it could take you 5-10 tries to get a pretty basic recipe just the way you like it. Because all you had access to were maybe a few cookbooks, a couple…
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Keep Ya Head Up
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Keep ya head up!! All right, I’ve been slacking a bit around here… Mike got the flu, Izzy got pink eye/ear infection, we’ve all had a persistent head cold since Izzy started daycare/I started working there… AND I have a hard enough time staying motivated about cooking when…
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Get in the Mood ?
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Mood enhancers. If you Haters are like me, cooking is no sunny walk in the park: It’s more like being at the dentist… DAILY. So we Haters need to approach cooking differently than typical humans… Which is why I recommend finding ways to put yourself in a good…
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The Best App Ever.
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: The best app EVER: Prosciutto-wrapped Canteloupe. Ok I gave this app a shout out in a “tip of the day” for last-minute app ideas, but I gotta give this particular app some extra love cause it’s just so Hater-friendly (and DELICIOUS!) 1st of all, there are two ingredients.…
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Get to Love Leftovers!
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: If you’re a Hater, Get to Love Leftovers! Ok, typically, I don’t like leftovers. Many meals do NOT reheat well, plus I’d just prefer to have something fresh every night. But HELLO, I hate cooking, and my hate far outweighs my need to have something new every single…
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Semi-Prepared Foods
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: If you’re a Hater, buy semi-prepared foods! Ain’t no shame in my game!! As a follow-up to the menu planning post from a couple days ago, I mentioned picking “easy meals” to make… Easy GOALS, in general, is a solid step in the right direction for any Hater.…
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Menu Planning. Get On It.
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Menu planning. Get on it. Yes, Haters, I’m talking to YOU. It’s not as fancy as it sounds, I swear. It just means deciding what you’re going to eat for dinner for the upcoming week, buying the stuff, and cooking it before it rots in your fridge. Even…
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Last Minute App Ideas
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Last-minute app ideas! Do you need a last-minute, hater-friendly app idea for the weekend? If you’ve been charged with bringing an app to the party, and you’re a HATER, it can be hard to come up with something… Sure, you can buy a jar of salsa and some…