Weight, Measures, Cooking Times, and Cooking Tips, collected by Carlos Mirasierras
stem portion and peel just this part. Leave the skin and root end attached to the piece
you want to store. Store in zip-lock type bag or glass jar in refrigerator. This keeps the
onion from drying out although you may need to remove a very thin slice from the cut
surface before using if it is stored for several days.
Boiled Eggs:
When eggs are cooked, remove from hot water, crack and let them sit in cold water for
a few minutes. Gently rub egg between your hands to finish cracking. Shell should
come off easily. (A good idea is to dump the eggs out of the hot water into the sink then
throw them back into the pan hard enough to crack them and run cold water over
them.)
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Cooking Tips for Cooking Better
1) To make crêpes crisper, add a little sugar to the dough batter.
2) For its better effects, mutton should not be of an older animal. The meat of younger
lambs look pink and has a more firm texture. If the meat looks red and wrinkled, then it
will be tough.
3) To store fish for more than a day and still keep it fresh, first clean it, rub it with salt,
add turmeric and a dash of vinegar, and then store it in the fridge.
4) To prevent kebabs to become harder to chew, marinate them for a longer time and
also avoid over cooking them.
5) To make softer chapattis, take flour in a bowl, add salt and little oil. Then add boiled
water and mix slowly until soft dough is formed. Keep it aside for 15 min before making
the chapattis.
6) While cooking chicken or meat, you should first cook it over high flame to seal the
juices and then you can lower down the heat and cook till it becomes tender.
7) To make gravies when tomatoes are not in season, canned tomato sauce can be
successfully used instead.
8) Little plain sugar or caramelized sugar added to the gravy makes it tasty.
9) To retain the color and taste of ground masala, fry it over low heat .
10) To avoid bacon to splatter all over, sprinkle a little amount of salt in the frying pan
before adding bacon to fry
11) To make omelet light and fluffy, heat a non-stick pan and add a little more butter
than usual. Now beat the egg and stir briskly (even while frying) with a fork (better a
wooden one).
12) While cooking chicken or meat, you should first cook it over high flame to seal the
juices and then you can lower down the heat and cook the meat becomes tender.

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