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How to make salads with cabbage with Curtis Stone

August 27, 2013

There are a great variety of cabbages out there which are great for making salads. The most common is coleslaw but Curtis has a few more ideas for you. First up salt your chopped cabbage with a teaspoon or two or salt which removes some of the moisture and intensifies the flavour. Once you’ve done…

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What’s inside a cup of coffee?

The most obvious ingredient is water, 98% of your regular cup of coffee but what makes up the other 2%? Wired magazine decided to find out and most of it is made up of ingredients you would struggle to pronounce and spell if they were not already in front of you. Things like 2-ethylphenol, dimethyl…

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What happens when you mix milk with dish washing soap…

You may not have ever wondered what happens when you mix milk with detergent but some people most certainly have. Pour regular full cream milk into a bowl and wait for it to settle down and still before adding drops of food colouring. Use a cotton bud, dip it in the dish washing soap, place…

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How to confit duck or any other meat and confit tomatoes.

How to confit duck, which means to cooking something in it’s own fat, with Curtis Stone. You can confit any range of meat, chicken, pork, duck and even rabbit. The key to conift cooking is to cook for a long time at a low temperature. Curtis starts off with a pot of duck fat and…

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How to trim and French a Rack of Lamb

When dining out on a rack of lamb at a restaurant they are always neatly trimmed along the bone, this is called Frenching. Curtis Stone shows you how to this at home by slicing off excess fat and pieces of meat leaving you with a neatly trimmed, attractive looking rack of lamb. Wrap some foil…

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How to cream butter and sugar for perfect biscuits.

Curtis Stones explains how to cream butter and sugar properly to make perfect biscuits. You start of with a mixture of white and brown sugar and combine with some soft butter. In effect you are dissolving the sugar while introducing a little air into the mix. Once you have creamed the butter and sugar continue…

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How to prepare and cook a fillet steak with Curtis Stone.

Curtis Stone shows us how to prepare a fillet ensuring that you serve perfect steaks. You can use different parts of the fillet for different cooking methods, the thick end is ideal for roasting while the thinner trims are perfect for steaks and the tail is ideal for stir fries. A restaurant trick for retaining…

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How to remove the meat from a cooked lobster

If you ever felt a little challenged when dealing with a lobster here is a video on how to remove the meat by Great British Chefs.

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How to substitute molasses in a recipe and in reverse how to make brown sugar.

I’m sure that this has happened to quite a few people, a recipe calls for molasses and you don’t have any. This is not a problem according to CHOW, all you have do to is substitute 3/4 cup brown sugar for every cup of molasses the recipe calls for. In reverse if you need brown…

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Watch the cutest kid, young Luiz Antonio, make an argument for not eating animals

Young Luiz Antonio brings tears to his mother’s eyes as he makes a moral argument for not eating meat. Even this hardened carnivore shed a little tear as I watched young Luiz ask the pertinent questions and then with the innocence of a young man make an argument as to why he does not want…

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How to eat an apple. Odds are you’ve been doing it all wrong your entire life!

The traditional method of eating an apple is strewn with waste and Foodbeast set about uncovering the best way to eat an apple with a surprising result. After doing a mass and volume test they concluded that we are throwing away anywhere between 15 to 30 percent of every apple. By starting from the bottom…

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The Butter Grater a solution for easily spreading butter on your bread.

One wonders why something like this has taken so long? Some bright spark in Japan has invented the Butter Grater, the kitchen gadget to end all gadgets. If you are like me and have a preference for butter over margarine you’ll appreciate the challenge that often presents itself when it comes to spreading the stuff.…

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So exactly how many insects are we eating a day?

This is not something to get too grossed out about although I’m sure some of you will but you will be surprised to discover exactly how many insects you are eating every day without realising it. The reality is that nature is pretty hard to get away from!

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Knowledge Rss

How to make salads with cabbage with Curtis Stone

What’s inside a cup of coffee?

What happens when you mix milk with dish washing soap…

How to confit duck or any other meat and confit tomatoes.

How to trim and French a Rack of Lamb

How to cream butter and sugar for perfect biscuits.

How to prepare and cook a fillet steak with Curtis Stone.

How to remove the meat from a cooked lobster

How to substitute molasses in a recipe and in reverse how to make brown sugar.

Watch the cutest kid, young Luiz Antonio, make an argument for not eating animals

How to eat an apple. Odds are you’ve been doing it all wrong your entire life!

The Butter Grater a solution for easily spreading butter on your bread.

So exactly how many insects are we eating a day?

South Africa's Internet Food Newspaper, Magazine and Blog