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Condiments expiration dates - iVillage. Fine Cookings knife guide to techniques for safely chop, dice, slice, carve and trim with your knives. Twenty for Twenty Article. Thai Food Kitchen | Cooking | Temple of Thai - StumbleUpon. 20 Cool and Useful Kitchen Tools. Creative products and gadgets that will make a cool addition to any modern kitchen. Avocado Cuber: Useful product designed for making uniform-sized cubes of avocado. Onion Holder: With this tool you'll be able to create straight, even slices from one end of the onion to the other. Corn Zipper: This product quickly and safely removes kernels from the corn while protecting the fingers. Garlic Rocker: This excellent designed kitchen tool uses downward pressure and a 'rocking' mechanism for crushing and mincing garlic. Banana Slicer: Just peel your banana, and push this gadget down from top; it creates evenly sliced pieces.

Tomato/Mozzarella Slicer: This useful tool swiftly cuts ripe tomatoes and creamy mozzarella into uniform slices. Apple Corer: This ergonomically designed tool makes coring apples easy. Strawberry Huller: This cool kitchen tool quickly removes the leaves and stem from a strawberry. Rotato Potato Peeler: This cool innovative tool peels off potato skin in one continuous spiral. 50+ Substitutions For Common Ingredients | Inspiring Pretty. August 31, 2011 1 comment courtesy of thecouponhigh.net Have you ever been in the middle of a recipe and suddenly realized that you don’t have all the ingredients you need? It’s such a hassling feeling knowing you have to go to the store again for just one thing and now this recipe will take much longer than you planned. Well, to save you some headache and make you just a bit more handy dandy, I’ve compiled a list of the most-used ingredients in recipes, minus the obvious substitutions such as tomato paste for ketchup, rum extract for rum, etc.

All Spice, 1 TSP ¼ TSP cinnamon, ½ TSP ground cloves & ¼ TSP nutmeg Arrowroot, 1 TBSP 2 ¼ TBSP cornstarch Baking Powder, 1 TSP ¼ TSP baking soda, ½ TSP cream of tartar Balsamic Vinegar, 1 TBSP 1 TBSP apple cider/red wine & ½ TSP sugar Beef or Chicken Broth, 1 cup 1 cup boiling water & 1 bouillon cube Beer Equal parts white grape juice, apple juice or apple cider Brown Sugar, Dark, 1 cup 1 cup light brown sugar & 1 TBSP molasses Brown Sugar, Light, 1 cup Butter.