Cooking Techniques
Cooking With Yeast
Developing confidence when cooking with yeast allows you to expand your cooking range to some wonderful foods like bagels, pizza, brioche and even doughnuts....
How to Cook Breakfasts
Breakfast means different things in different places – but the traditional English breakfast has three items that cause more problem than almost any others...
How to Cook Curry
The name curry is an English word that is commonly given to any dish of meat, fish or vegetables that is served in a rich, spicy sauce. Different types of cu...
How to Cook Desserts
When deciding what to cook, you should consider the meal as a whole: if, for example, you’ve had a salmon mousse to start, and creamy cheese pasta bake for...
How to Cook Omelettes
The first thing to understand is that there are several different kinds of omelette – a frittata, for example is a non-fluffy omelette, while what we order...
How to Cook Pasta Dishes
The incredible thing about pasta is the seemingly limitless variety of forms that dough made from flour and water can take. There is long pasta and short pas...
How to Cook Rice Dishes
Rice is a dietary staple for a huge part of the world’s population and therefore features in the cookery of many different cultures. It is an amazingly fle...
How to Cook Sauces
Cooking sauces is seen by some as the point where cookery becomes art. A good sauce can make relatively boring ingredients taste exciting and bring new colou...
How to Cook Seafood
There are some basic rules about all seafood – it should be cooked fast and preferably within 24 hours of purchase, 12 hours is even better. If using froze...
How to Cook Soups
Soup is one of the simplest and easiest forms of food to get right. Virtually any ingredient can be used in a soup although there are of course several tried...
How to Cook Starters
A good starter should awaken the taste buds, and get the diner to start thinking about a main course in earnest. Whether they’re called entrees, hors d’o...
How to Make Pastry
Pastry-making is not as difficult as it seems, as long as you understand the ingredients and terminology involved. What is Pastry? At its most simple, a past...
Is Britain Eating More Healthily?
The latest results of the DEFRA National Food Survey one of the most important studies of trends in food consumption in Britain reveals that there is continu...
Quiz: Are You a Healthy or a Joyful Cook?
We’ve all been bombarded with health and nutrition messages in the last decade and for many people, that’s turned cooking from a pleasure to a chore. Thi...
Test Your Cooking Knowledge: Questionnaire
It’s not always fun to be a cook, and if you’re the one who has to whip up healthy and enticing meals for your family or loved ones, day in, day out, it...
Turning Leftovers Into Great Dishes
Learning to use leftovers is important because it reduces your food budget and saves you time – knowing how to get a second great meal out of what’s left...