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Tip Friday

Convection ovens work by circulating hot air through the oven cavity by a rear-mounted fan. These convection ovens are preferred by many cooks because of the even heat distribution and absence of hot spots found in standard ovens.

How To Bake A Ham In A Convection Oven With 4 Bonus Glazes

First turkey? Get Ready Early! Whether you choose to rotisserie roast, bake, grill, deep fry, smoke, brine or marinate make sure to check out these Turkey Tips and Safety Guides.

Tip Friday Turkey Guide 101

Turkey in a convection oven is the best way for me when cooking a big meal. With less time baby sitting I have more time for cooking. Also there are fewer dishes to clean up. This is a big WIN WIN for me!!

How to Cook a Turkey In a Convection Oven

No matter how bad you think your gravy turns out there is always a quick fix in your future. Follow these Tips to success and be the envy of everyone.

Tips To A Perfect Gravy

Why do onions make you cry, and how can you prevent it from happening? This article will answer all your questions and provide some solutions!

Tip Friday Chopping an Onion Without Tears

Creaming simply means mixing your butter and sugar together until well blended, leaving you with a fluffy light yellow mix. Just do not over mix!

Tip Friday Cutting In aka Creaming

Pie crust can be made with a variety of fats, from shortening, to the classic lard. Butter and shortening are also a great combination. Use vegetable oil for an extra easy, vegan crust.

Tip Friday The Perfect Crust

Freeze cookie dough in plastic bags to cook later. Heat as many or as

Tip Friday Freezing Cookie Dough

Cooling Table 17 dozen cookies for my granddaughter.

Tip Friday A Baker’s Tale

Grilling steak until it's a brown with a light char on the surface, while also making sure the interior is cooked to a perfect juicy doneness is the goal, right?

Grilling The Perfect Steak

Preheat your oven and pull out your favorite banana bread recipe, because this trick means never having to wait for bananas to ripen on the counter again.

The Secret to Really Good Banana Bread

This Beef Stew Seasoning Mix is homemade and doesn’t contain all those extra added ingredients nobody can pronounce.

Homemade Beef Stew Seasoning Mix

I know some people out there are all about cutting out the carbs but seriously, pasta? It fills your belly with that warm feeling you expect from any comfort food and is also perfect

Tip Friday 19 Tips for Perfect Pasta

It happens to the best of us: You are all ready to bake when you realize you're missing a key ingredient in your recipe. No worries! Use these substitutions to save your recipe in a snap.

Tip Friday Common Emergency Substitutions

Coffee creamer, whether regular, low fat or sugar free is a recipe I can easily make as needed. Just a few ingredients a shake and a pour. Deliciousness awaits!

Homemade Coffee Creamer

Homemade Sweet Pickle Relish is so simple to make. Let your extra fresh cucumbers work for you all year long.

Homemade Sweet Pickle Relish

Homemade Cocktail Sauce can be made in just 5 minutes with 5 ingredients that are already in your kitchen. Why not eat fresh?

Homemade Quick Cocktail Sauce

It is convenient having fresh chili mix on hand using ingredients I trust. These 6 ingredients should already be in your pantry. Save some in a ziplock bag where you can spice a batch up once in a while.

Homemade Chili Seasoning Mix

It's the preferred sugar for baked good decorations like frosting, icing, and dusting. I also sift it on donuts. I also use it used often in candy and fudge recipes as well as dense cookie and dessert bar recipes.

Homemade Confectioners Sugar

Simple yellow mustard is fast and easy to make at home. Never go without again!

Homemade Mustard Recipe with Variations

You can whip this ketchup, literally, in a minute or two. The only caveat is you need to refrigerate it for a few hours.

Homemade Ketchup

This recipe satisfies all your requirements and wont go bad in the back of the fridge. You can make the amount you need and not worry about leftover!!

Homemade Tartar Sauce

Beating egg whites properly is the key to creating certain extra light cookies, such as meringues or ladyfingers. Beating eggs is a basic baking skill.

Tip Friday Beating Egg Whites

This base recipe is very easy to make. And the ingredients should already be in your spice cabinet. When you make your own you never have to worry again about needing the right soup to finish that recipe.

Condensed Cream Soup Base

Sour cream is one of those ingredients that can be found in both sweet and savory recipes as well as cooked dishes and baked goods. There are many uses and substitutes. See the article for more info.

How To Make Homemade Sour Cream

If you bake cookies a lot it's not uncommon to encounter one or more cookies from the same batch of look drastically different. Some are larger, thinner, and browner than the rest. Sometimes these differences affect one cookie or one pan alone.

Scraping The Bowl

The ability to freeze, defrost, and then safely eat foods has nothing to do with whether you will actually enjoy the taste and quality. Learn the correct way to safely freeze and thaw meat.

Tip Friday Safely Freezing Meat

I love baking and cooking with a fresh package of brown sugar. It smells so good. I also love packing it tightly into a measuring cup when I use it in a recipe. The satisfaction I get when it flips out, perfectly molded, like sand for a sand castle always makes me smile.

Homemade Brown Sugar

Many people need to avoid eggs for a lot of reasons. They avoid eggs due to health, culture, religion or just dietary restrictions.

7 Best Egg Substitutes and Examples

Nothing is better than homemade from your own kitchen. Pumpkin Spice has unlimited uses as you can think of. This homemade spice is even better than store bought. It adds a special flavor to all your pumpkin recipes.

How To Make Homemade Pumpkin Spice

Follow these tips about baking and creating the best baked goods! This guide gives you knowledge on how to keep them fresh!

Tip Friday Keeping Baked Goods Fresh

It's Tip Friday on Marilyn's Treats. Learn how Long Eggs Will Keep. All the criteria involved. General Eggs

Tip Friday Keeping Eggs

It's Tip Friday on Marilyn's Treats. Learn The 12 Hacks for eggs. #tipfriday

Tip Friday Hacks For Eggs

7 Ways to Remove Eggs From Shell Hands free.

Tip Friday Peel Hard Boiled Eggs Hands Free And More

I have found that secret of using Self Rising Flour in my baked goods. But I don’t want to have all that flour around. The solution? I make it myself as needed. Problem solved.

How To Make Easy Self Rising Flour

There are a lot of reasons to know when to choose the correct type of flour. Choosing the right flour for every baking project can be a daunting task.

Tip Friday Not All Flour Is Created Equal

If we don’t have buttermilk in the fridge, the closest substitute would be another dairy product with a little acidity added. And you can make it at home!

How to Make a Quick And Easy Buttermilk Substitute

Piping is a basic technique that can add a lot of polish to the look of your baked goods. See Filling a pastry bag, above, for hints on getting set up. Remember to use a twist tie to close the top of the pastry bag, to keep its contents from backing up over your hand as you squeeze. Stop squeezing before lifting the bag as you pipe, to have a cleaner separation point.

Tip Friday Piping

Condensed milk is traditionally cow’s milk that has much of the water content boiled away and then sugar added. This condensed milk recipe contains milk but coconut milk can easily replace dairy milk.

How to Make Condensed Milk

Slow Cooker Black Bean Sweet Potato Chili. Want a healthy easy and fresh way to make chili? Try this slow cooker version featuring Black Beans and Sweet Potatoes.

Tip Friday Chili 911

It is essential to know your flours before you buy a bag. Two of the most commonly confused flours are all-purpose flour and self-rising flour. They aren’t always interchangeable.

Tip Friday Baking With Self Rising Flour

Did you know you can freeze a whole, unbaked fruit pie? With this tip you can bake all the pies you need and still use the oven for your other dishes. #tip #pies

Tip Friday Freezing Pies

It's Tip Friday on Marilyn's Treats. Learn 7 Alternatives To White Sugar. There are everyday household products. #tipfriday

Tip Friday 7 Alternatives To White Sugar

Did you know there are 3 ways to keep your brown sugar soft? Now there is no need to throw it out!

Tip Friday 3 Ways To Keep Brown Sugar Soft

From a snack cake to a multi-layered birthday cake, some basic secrets will help make every cake a success.

Tip Friday 17 Secrets to Successful Cakes

Tip Friday Life Span Pantry Products Read more for how to find the life span of your pantry products.

Tip Friday Lifespan of Pantry Products

Homestyle Chicken and Biscuits can be made as easy as 1,2,3. This casserole is a ONE DISH meal and ready in 30 minutes. True comfort food.

Tip Friday 11 Casserole Tips For A Great Meal

Ever wonder how you can serve a large brunch and have everyone eating a warm dish together? Well here is the answer. The eggs can be poached in advanced and placed into a bowl of cold water. Then when the eggs are required they can be dropped back into warm tap water and plated!

Tip Friday Poaching Eggs in Batches

If your greens are wilting within a few days of bringing them home from the store, you can prevent it with this quick storage tip.

Tip Friday Storing Greens

Crimping Crust. A pumpkin pie with fall leaves cut out and added to the top.

Tip Friday Crimping Crust

Toasting nuts at home is worth the 10 minutes you will spend. It will improve your salads, snacks, rice pilaf and just about any other kitchen recipes requiring nuts you might make.

Tip Friday Toasting Nuts

When making marshmallows, meringues, caramels or candy the recipe can call for cooking and creating sugar syrups. This can be confusing but is easily clarified with the following tips and chart.

Tip Friday Cooking Sugar Syrups

Straining unsweetened cocoa is a snap when you use this tip. Never have clumpy batters again! Another baking tip on Marilyn's Treats Tip Friday. #baking #tip #cocoa

Tip Friday Straining Unsweetened Cocoa

Slice and Bake Cookies can be a fun way to make all kinds of cookies. The final product is a firm chewy cookie that doesn’t crumble in your hands. The cookies can be made in any shape you desirer.

Tip Friday Slice and Bake Cookie Dough

The first thing to keep in mind when storing cookies is that they need to be completely cool before you put them away, otherwise they'll steam, soften up, and stick to each other.

Tip Friday Storing Cookies

I have made a thousand and one mistakes when shipping just baked cookie gifts to family and friends. I typically baked what I loved and shipped it all dolled up with bows, gift wrap, and long ribbons inside the shipping box. I think I broke all 5 rules that way.

Tip Friday Shipping Cookies

When batter cookies are still warm, they can be shaped into several kinds of shapes, using any number of kitchen items.

Tip Friday Shaping Batter Cookies

It's Tip Friday on Marilyn's Treats and today's tip is separating eggs. Come and learn the way to do it without making a mess.

Tip Friday Separating Eggs

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Tip Friday Health Facts About Onions

There was a period when I used to use two spoons. Now that I bake more cookies “To Go” I found a cookie scoop is a better choice. The cookie scoop results are more consistent, and it's a quicker way to get the job done.

Tip Friday Scooping Dough

After scooping the dough you need to roll it between your hands to finish rounding it. Using a cookie scoop however makes portions of balls to start with.

Tip Friday Rolling Into A Ball

Homemade Granola Parfait. Homemade granola, fresh fruit and yogurt nestled inside a pineapple boat. Granola isn't just for breakfast anymore!

Homemade Granola

There are many recipes where dough is involved. Not just breads but pies, cookies, pastries and some savory dishes too. It is important to know a few basic skills and hacks to ensure your final product is perfect!

Tip Friday Rolling Out Your Dough

Sometimes in every bakers life you will come across the need to melt your chocolate. don’t be nervous! this common mistakes followed by 5 different ways to melt your chocolate will make that recipe turn out fantastically!

Tip Friday Melting Chocolate

When should you line a pan and which medium to us? Choose from foil, wax paper, parchment and spray oils using this info.

Tip Friday Lining A Pan

Leveling is also known as smoothing the crust. The different tips below will keep your crusts smooth and even. They will have less of a chance to burn and crumble.

Tip Friday Leveling Crust

Knowing when you need to grease your pan, why you grease a pan and how to grease a pan plays a huge part in how your recipe will turn out. Don’t miss all the tips in this article!

Tip Friday Greasing a Pan

Folding is the term used for combining a delicate mixture into a thicker mixture to ensure that both mixtures are properly combined.

Tip Friday Folding

Most people wish they had three hands when it comes to filling a pastry bag! Here are some hints to make it easier.

Tip Friday Filling a Pastry Bag

Tip Friday Cookie Doneness. When checking to see if your cookies or other baked goods are done, just follow these tips.

Tip Friday Cookie Doneness

Tip Friday Docking. Do you even know. What docking is? Docking involves your crust and how it can affect your baked goods. By venting the steam, docking keeps the dough from billowing or heaving as it bakes.

Tip Friday Docking

Most bar cookies are baked in a square or rectangular pan. The simplest way to divide these cookies evenly is by cutting the sheet of baked dough in half, then cutting the halves in half again.

Tip Friday Cutting Into Bars

For some recipes you need to chill the dough. Image of 4 batches in the fridge.,

Tip Friday Chilling Cookie Dough

Use a spatula to transfer cookies to a cooling rack. There are a few ways you can cool cookies and keep them round and perfect. When baking drop cookies, especially if you like chewy ones, leave the cookies on the baking sheet for 5 minutes after you take the pan out of the oven.

Tip Friday Cooling Cookies

Tip Friday Boiling Water if you think there is no more to water than watching it bubble. Do you know the different types? Learn here.

Tip Friday Stages of Boiling Water

It's Tip Friday on Marilyn's Treats. And todays tip is Adding eggs, one at a time. Why you need to do it. A complete to guide.

Tip Friday Adding Eggs One At a Time

Finding ways to cook and bake to suit your allergies can be exhausting. I’ve come across a few tips and tricks that may be helpful in the kitchen the next time you aim to make your favorite recipe ‘allergy-friendly’.

Tip Friday Diet Restriction Substitutions

Group of essential baking tools.

Tip Friday Bakeware Essentials for A Well Equipped Kitchen

This is a very good comprehensive guide for what any cook may need to start stocking a kitchen. A nice tutorial for the child leaving the nest, or for a new bride to put on her bridal registry

Tip Friday Bakeware Tips for Every Kitchen

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