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If you had a long night or day surfing the internet and you want to relax and grab a snack and a cup of coffee then come and relax here and check out some of the links available, even watch a few youtube videos at the bottom. In the mean time heres a little salad dressing recipe you can try out I hope you enjoy it :)

2 tablespoons of lemon juice pref fresh lemon.
1 quarter cup red wine vinegar.
1 teaspoon of salt.
1 quarter teaspoon of ground black pepper.
1 crushed clove of fresh garlic.
3 quarters of a cup of good quality olive oil.
Poar mixture in a bottle and shake well before use, its also usefull to leave it to stand for 24 hours to allow flavours to blend together.







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Tuesday, 29 June 2010

A Quick BBQ Idea

Get a good quality salmon steak. Place the salmon steak on some tin foil use enough foil to make it into a parcel.
Add a noggin of butter.
Squeese half a lemon.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Wrap salmon up into the foil and make it into a parcel.
Then place the parcel onto tyhe BBQ until the salmon is is tender and succulent. The butter and the half a lemon juice creates a wonderfull sauce to go with the fish.
Thanks :)

Monday, 7 June 2010

Easy Trouble Free Cooking

Everybody wants to cook as hassle free as possible and this could be done. So heres a few ideas to try out to keep cooking as trouble free as possible.

1. Wash as you go. Having clean hot soapy water avilable while you are preparing food and serving it would be useful. Any dirty pots, pans or utencils that you are not using would be better being washed as soon as you have finished using them than rather allowing them to sit around with the food drying onto them while you are eating. Plus its less washing up after you finished eating.

2. Preperation. Prepare the food ready before you start cooking it. Then you are not dashing around like a chicken with its head cut off preparing food while other food is burining on the cooker.

3. Preheating Oven. If you need to put anything in your oven make sure that your oven is preheated that way you know that your food is cooked properly and is cooked to a optimal result.

4. Recipe That Suits You. Try to avoid any recipes that you find difficult and find a recipe that you are comfortable with cooking and have the ingredients available to cook. You don't have to make anything fancy to show off, aslong as it is prepared and served properly looks nice and tastes good thats all you want.

5. Stay Clean. Cleanliness is important keep pots, bowls, utencils, work surfaces and most importantly your hands clean especialy while you are handling things like raw meat. The bowl of hot soapy washing up water I mentioned earlier can help a great deal in achieving this. Infact if you are making something that involves wegetables and meat which most food does its best to prepare vegetables first and meat last.

These may seem alot to think about but if you can remember these simple ideas than cooking will become alot easier. Thanks for reading :)