Secret Tips

These are Caroline’s secret tips to make cooking easier.

To boil eggs

Place eggs in water in pan. Bring to a boil, then turn off heat and cover with lid. Leave covered 15 to 20 minutes. All done!

To cut a kiwi

Cut the ends off. Slip a spoon right under the skin, then rotate the spoon around the kiwi, separating the fruit from the skin all the way around. It will change your life!

Measuring

There are 4 tablespoons in 1/4 cup. There are 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon. So if any recipes call for 4 tablespoons or 3 teaspoons of something, save yourself some work!

Shreading Meat

If you have a stand mixer, use it to shread cooked meat with the dough hook. It saves like an hour

Real Ingredients

Pretty much everything tastes better when you use real butter, real ginger, real garlic, real vanilla or real herbs. But if you’re feeding people under the age of about 15, they won’t care! So save your $ for the big guns.

Ginger

Peel ginger with a spoon, not a knife. Just scrape the spoon against the skin

Avocados

Slice avocadods inside the skin! Just cut it in half, remove the pit by whacking it with the heel of a knife and twisting it out. Then use a paring knife to slice each half while they are still in the skin. Scoop slices out with a spoon!

Eggshells

If you drop little pieces of eggshell in a dish you are making, use the large portion of the eggshell to scoop out the little bits in your food. They’re like magnets!