All the basics you need to know to get you started canning and preserving your surplus produce.  Save money and amaze your friends with home-made foodie gifts.  You don’t need to refit your kitchen or spend a fortune on equipment.  Here’s what you need to know:

Thankfully there is a growing interest in the art of preserving
produce.  With belts tightening and an ecological desire to waste less
food, more people are starting to dry, can, pickle & jam fruits and
vegetables.  The recipes are endless but the methods are few.  So if
you’re new to preserving fruit and veg here are the first things to
know:

The taste of bananas in ice cream was new to us all, and the garden lemon added an interesting and fragrantly refreshing note. Banana ice cream is one of NewYork people favorite recipes. Fried banana ice cream is the world’s easiest ice cream. Enjoy fried bananas while still hot. For extra special desserts, is top with warm chocolate sauce and cold vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

This dessert is the result of a happy accident. Enjoy fried bananas while still hot. For extra special desserts, is top with warm chocolate sauce and cold vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. Now hand a fork to your partner and get ready to fall head over heels in love!

The art of cake decorating is a fun and rewarding one. You can decorate cakes for hobby or for profession. Impress all your friends with a beautiful flag cake on the 4th of July. Or take an artfully decorated cake to your next family potluck. You can even delight all of the children in your family on their birthday with a cake that is decorated with their favorite cartoon character or super hero. If you want to get started with a hobby of cake decorating, there are a few things you need and some things you should know. Read on to get started practicing this fulfilling art form.

The word ‘crockpot’ is a name which is actually a trademarked name, but is often used as a generic term. The terms ‘crockpot’ and ’slow cooker’ have come to be used interchangeably.

‘Rival’ is the original holder of the trademarked term ‘Crock-Pot’.

The Rival Crock-Pot / slow cooker has been one of the most important cooking tools for busy families since its introduction in 1971. Slow cooking is a great way to provide delicious home cooked meals for people and families on the go and produces flavorful meals time after time.

This appliance is made of fired clay and is usually glazed and surrounded by a metallic housing. It contains a controlled heating element to maintain the slow cooker temperatures whuich allow food to be cooked over longer periods of time.

Food processing is a way or technique implemented to convert raw food stuff into well-cooked and well preserved eatables for both the humans and the animals. All these methods are used by food processing industry to give out processed or preserved foods for our daily consumption. Best quality harvested, slaughtered and butchered and clean constituents are used by food processing industry to manufacture very nutritious and easy to cook food products. Following are some techniques and methods used to convert food into processed or preserved food.

Preservation process: this includes heating or boiling to destroy micro-organisms, oxidation, toxic inhibition, dehydration or drying, osmotic inhibition, freezing, a sort of cold pasteurization which destroys pathogens and various combinations of all these methods.

Crock pot meals are convenient on those busy work nights. Its nice to come home to the tantalizing smell of a well cooked meal waiting for you. The challenge is to find those recipes that are not only quick and convenient, but tasty as well. Here I offer two recipes that are tasty and easy - Beef Burgundy and Country-Style Ribs with Sauerkraut.

This is my version of Crock Pot Beef Burgundy. It is quick to prepare in the morning, especially if you opt to skip the browning process (I usually do.) You can also cook this, well covered, for 2 hours in a 350 degree oven. The cooking time on the Beef Burgundy is 3-6 hours, but the longer you cook it on low, the more tender it will be. I don’t usually worry about the time, I put it in before I leave for work and eat whenever the wonderful smells are too much for my willpower.

Traveling in Austria is a wonderful opportunity to do Wine Food Pairing from your hotel room! Never let an opportunity like this pass you by.

Austria has some terrific wines that can be purchased very reasonably and depending on the area of the country you are visiting, you may have opportunities to visit the actual winery and speak with the wine farmers! A favorite red wine made in Austria is Blaufrankisch. This is a medium to full bodied dry wine that is known for the tannins and pairs beautifully with a lot of the heavy foods that the Austrians are so famous for.

If you are really fed up with having the hum drum coffee all the time. Then it’s time to recompense yourself with something diverse and exciting. Why not spritz up your morning routine with a cup of exquisite “gourmet coffee”.

The dictionary definition has gourmet food down as this, “Gourmet food is that which is of the highest quality, perfectly prepared and artfully presented.” If you want the maximum quality food you go to a star class restaurant, but if you want the premier quality coffee, this can be achieved by you at home. That gourmet meal is in all probability staying at the restaurant where you ate, unless you become friends with the chef and invite him over, but as for the cup of gourmet coffee you can make it where ever you desire.