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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Ten Tips to Enjoy Your Cooking

Do you cook? If yes, do you really enjoy your cooking? Most probably you have relegated cooking as a daily must-do drudgery, a boring chore that has to be gone through. You can enjoy your cooking if you set your mind to do so. No one can deny the fact that they feel a peculiar pleasure and thrill when the dish that they cooked turned out to be a masterpiece. You can really enjoy not only the food you make but the way you make it.

Cooking, I believe, is an art in itself. Like Music and Dance, making a good dish or recipe is a fine art. Every dish is a perfect blend of ingredients and the chemistry between the ingredients. If one loves the job of making a fine dish then the taste and feel of the dish gets doubly enhanced. If you have the taste and affinity for Cooking, here are a few tips to make your dishes look, feel and taste better. :

1. First make sure that you really want to prepare that dish.
2. Keep all the condiments and other ingredients ready at hand, in the correct measures.
3. Wash, peel, cut and keep vegetables ready
4. Clean, chop and cut meat and fish. Keep ready.
5. Choose method of cooking- Gas, Electricity or Microwave :Keep utensils ready.
6. Read the recipe once again, if you are cooking by the recipe. If not, just recollect the methodology.
7. Keep sufficient water, oil or fat ready at hand.
8. Always note to keep the heat at the medium level to avoid overcooking your dishes
9. Use teflon-coated thick copper bottom vessels or glass cookware for your cooking.
10. Always rely on your taste buds to ensure that your cooking has come out right.

Pleasure stoke your passion for cooking by reading, getting people to appraise your dishes by tasting and getting first hand knowledge of all the spices and other condiments and what they do to enhance the flavour and taste of your dishes.

Happy Cooking! Enjoy!

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