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One of the most disappointing things that can happen when you have spent an hour or so in the kitchen, trying to make something delicious, is your creation sticking to the bottom of the pan. You can grease the inside before you fill the baking pan or you can use ...
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Whenever I bake or cook something with eggs, I make sure they are still fresh before adding them to the rest of the ingredients. I did not always use to do this, but I learned the hard way (by adding a bad egg to a bowl, filled with amazing ingredients) ...
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Fun Food Fact! Not all sugar is the same. What we call sugar, is a group of small carbohydrates with a sweet taste. There are several types of these small carbohydrates. When you are reading a nutrition label, and you see for instance fructose, galactose, glucose, lactose, maltose or sucrose ...
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Fun Food Fact! Did you know that the 'air' that you find in a lot of food packaging, is not the same air you and I breathe in every day? The air we breathe on earth is a mixture of roughly 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen and minimal amounts of Argon, ...
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Fun Food Fact! You may have noticed that not all eggs you can buy or collect from your chickens look the same. Some have a white shell, others a brown shell. Then when you crack them open, some yolks are very yellow, while others appear to be extremely orange. Did ...
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Have you ever thrown out chocolate because you thought it had gone bad since there was a white, powdery layer visible on it? Fun Food Fact! It probably didn't need to be thrown out. Let me tell you why ...
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Food is a basic human need and part of meeting the requirements for a balanced diet is protein. Most often, protein is provided through the consumption of animal products. With a growing global population, the demand for animal-based protein, particularly meat, is increasing.[ref]FAO (2016). Fishery and aquaculture statistics [Online]. Available ...
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Fruits and vegetables are an often underappreciated part of our diet. More often than not, we do not eat enough of either and we have it stuck in our head that we do not like a lot of them. This can be because we have had them once, prepared in ...
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Frosting is fantastic! I go crazy for it. It is the perfect outlet if you feel like getting creative with colours, shapes, flavours, and more. Aside from the aesthetics, using frosting is an opportunity to add more flavours to cupcakes, cakes, and desserts. Not only that, but it can also ...
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It is incredibly satisfying to make your very own nut butter. It is, even more, fun to try out kinds of nut butter that cannot be found in a grocery store. You can experiment with spices, sugars, and anything else you think sounds delicious ...
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