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    Kitchen & Cooking Tips

    Use these easy kitchen & cooking tips to make your time in the kitchen more efficient. Find everything from freezing bacon to dealing with sprouted potatoes.

    ANOREGONCOTTAGE@GMAIL.COM Kitchen and Cooking Tips

    You will find lots of kitchen & cooking tips here at AOC, as well as a whole year of seasonal cooking posts which include lists of produce in season for the month, ideas for using preserved foods and seasonal recipes appropriate to the month. These are all tips and ideas have helped to plan & streamline my cooking and hope they will help you, too!

    Kitchen Tips:

    • How To Clean & Care for Cast Iron
    • How To Organize Spices
    • How to Freeze Bacon Slices (for recipes & convenience)
    • Bulk Buying Chips & Keeping Them Fresh
    • How to Keep Bulk Chips Fresh Video
    • Tips for Buying Natural Peanut Butter in Bulk
    • Easy Way to Stir Natural Large Jars of Peanut Butter Video
    • How to Substitute Processed Ingredients with Real Food
    • Using a Straw to Help Seal Freezer Baggies
    • How to Save with Amazon Subscribe & Save
    • How to Easily Ripen Green Tomatoes

    Cooking Tips:

    • 7 Things To Do With Sprouted Potatoes
    • Ideas for Canning Small, Sour Apples (apples thinnings)
    • Sourdough Starter Tips
    • Using Up Leftover Bean Dip
    • How To Cut A Whole Chicken
    • How to Cook a Whole Chicken in a Slow Cooker
    • How to Make Easy Chicken Stock in a Slow Cooker
    • How to Make Chicken Stock in a Pressure Cooker
    • Favorite Baking Tools
    • How to Peel Tomatoes The Easy Way
    • The Secret to Easy-To-Peel Hard-Cooked Eggs
    • How to Cook & Freeze Dry Beans (& free yourself from canned)
    • How to Make Cappuccinos at Home video
    • How to Make Better Foam on a Home Cappuccino Maker

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