Cooking Tips

Using the convection bake setting on your oven when baking a dish reduces cooking time by efficiently moving heat throughout the oven using fans

Use a minimal amount of salt in dishes, thereby allowing your guests to season to taste

Avoid using spices that have the word “salt” in the title (e.g., garlic salt), instead, determine which spices you like from those mixes and use those with a normal amount of salt thrown in for flavor

Microwaves are our friends in the kitchen – don’t forget that they can help ensure that your meat is fully cooked, warm up leftovers, steam vegetables, and cook potatoes as well as rice!

Try cooking meat in a dry sherry or white wine that you are serving for dinner

Clean up as you go to make clean up after the meal easier

On this website:

• "olive oil" always means extra virgin olive oil

• "flour" refers to unbleached all-purpose flour

• "sugar" refers to white sugar unless otherwise stated