Food, Cooking & Recipes.

From time to time, When I'm feeling nostalgic, I'll come up with a few recipes for all of you food lovers.
If I'm going to get in to this with you, I would like to start with the basic of things.

Kitchen
The kitchen in your home is where the family usually gathers around holidays and when it is time to eat. A kitchen has to be cleaned in order to effectively prepare great tasting meals. A kitchen needs to be kept safe and kitchen equipment must be cleaned. There are many homeowners who don’t regularly clean and maintain their kitchen appliances. Sometimes, they burn toast in the toaster or get oven spills during cooking and fail to clean the oven or toaster until the residue builds up and makes it harder to clean

 Food

Food is available in a variety of ways and using it to keep up a healthy body lies the ultimate test for an individual and family. Food should not only satisfy hunger, tickle the taste buds to the maximum but also include the regular nutrients required for a complete and healthy body. The trick lies in identifying the food needed to achieve the balance between the above factors and then choose the one that suits the palate. The quality of food does matter, but then focus should be mainly on weight management process to achieve the equilibrium..


Vegetable stock

Just like chicken stock, vegetable stock is a needy item to have on hand at anytime during your cooking session. Needless to remind you that when making stock of any kind of flavor, to always proceed to make extra. You can without a doubt freeze the surplus. Vegetarians will love this stock because you can surely use it as a substitute for beef, chicken or fish stocks called for in certain recipes.
 
Chicken stock 

A very good chicken stock, should be light and a flavor to kill for. This will make great difference to your cooking. It does not take a lot to prepare and make your stock. Getting your ingredients together and preping them should be your biggest task. The cooking part requires little or no attention at all.
Making a large quantity of stock should help you save time in preparing your next dish should your recipe call for chicken stock. If not, you can always freeze it for the next time. Always make sure that you use 1 quart container. By doing so, it will last for up to 3 months. 

Soups

Soup, is always a way to feed many hungry people especially if the food supply is running low. Soup with a rich flavor and healthy ingredients texture can be a very satisfying meal.
As a chef or a sous-chef, I like to serve my soup with a salad. A great soup in the presence of a salad can be a perfect recipe for a light dinner..

(to be continued)