Category: Tips
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Mini Frittatas
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Mini Frittatas (here’s Giada’s version, AWESOME, but you can make these in a zillion variations!) http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/mini-frittatas-recipe OK, I’m clearly a breakfast junkie. Long before I could cook 5 good dinners, I could make a mean breakfast. But since I had my baby girl? WHOA, mini frittatas shot WAY…
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Blue Apron? Hello Fresh? Plated?
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Blue Apron? Hello Fresh? Plated? What say you? I’m a big fan of this concept, although I haven’t tried any (yet). If these types of companies existed when I was first getting into cooking, I woulda been all over it!! And if you’re just getting into the cooking…
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The Only Way to Eat a Muffin
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: The only way to eat a muffin… Melt a tablespoon of butter in a frying pan over medium heat. Cut the muffin down the middle. Fry the muffin until the insides are crispy golden. This is pure heaven. My fave is with blueberry corn muffins. Sure you might…
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MmmmmMeatloaf Muffins!
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Meatloaf muffins, CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP ? My friend passed along this Rachael Ray recipe many years ago, and it gave me new love for meatloaf, muffin-style, that is ? http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/meatloaf-muffins-with-barbecue-sauce-recipe My problem with old school meatloaf made in a 9″ X 5″ pan is that the edges would…
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Sneaking More Veggies In… To Yourself!
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Sneaking more veggies in… To YOURSELF! I’ve always heard of parents trying to sneak more veggies into their kids’ meals, but a while back, I figured the tactic was a good idea for myself as well. As a previous veggie hater, I’ve definitely done a complete 180, and…
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Spice Packets
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Spice Packets! So maybe you’re a cooking newbie. Or maybe you want to branch out a little, but don’t want to buy $20 worth of various Mexican spices. A rookie mistake is to spend money on spices that you buy for one recipe and never use again. That’s…
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Splitting Up the Prep & Cooking
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Do some food prep the morning of or the night before. A problem many cooking haters (and even non-haters) have is that they just don’t want to come home after a long day of work and march directly into the kitchen for an hour… Or even a half…
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Slow Cooker Sundays
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Slow Cooker Sunday. So I have this theory for chicks who don’t like sports, but their man is obsessed. (A) Choose to convincingly pretend to be interested in ONE of his sports. (B) Choose football to be that sport. Personally, I’m a die hard Rangers fan. Hockey is…
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Juicing
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Juicing… If you can afford it ? This is what mornings at the Jacobetz house look like… Well, more like every other morning now, once we realized that juicing was blowing up our grocery bill! (All this stuff is organic, and it isn’t cheap, even in the Denver/Boulder…
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PSA: I Don’t Measure Stuff
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: PSA: I rarely follow recipes exactly. Sometimes I add things, sometimes I omit things (for personal taste as well as allergy reasons). And sometimes the recipe is actually a hybrid of a few recipes for the same dish (and the one I reference on here is simply the…