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25 skills every cook should know For our 25th birthday, we've been finding out how the nation shops, cooks and eats in a survey of 10,000 people. With 14% of people ranking themselves as below three for their cooking skills on a scale of 1-10, we've put together a list of 25 key skills that every kitchen beginner should know in order to gain confidence... 1. How to chop an onion Cooking Techniques for Beginner and Intermediate Cooks 8 Tips For Better Bread Making How to Bake Great Bread at Home Many people are extremely intimidated by bread making. I’ve heard folks say everything from “I’m afraid of yeast,” to “I can’t make bread.” And that last is usually before they even try their hand at it. With the proliferation of helpful tools–everything wonderful bread cookbooks to stand mixers […] Continue Reading »

The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need Posted by nitzan on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 Running a business for yourself means you have to be inventive and always on the lookout for a new and better way to get things done. Innovation junkies, take note: the Internet has a lot to offer. From invoicing to marketing, these are tools that freelancers need to know about.

Oh, you tart! This is the easiest, prettiest pudding you will ever make. It's a slightly updated version of a recipe by Leia, on Leiasdelights.com It's a wonderful blog, you should take a peek. It's a one pot recipe, and only takes about 10mins to make. You can make it ahead of time, pop it in the fridge and whip it out at the last second to the delighted ooh's and ahh's of your guests. It is a little lazy using premade pastry, but you'll have all that extra time to... get on with your life. The Food Lab's Definitive Guide to Grilled Steak [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] More How to Encrypt Your Internet Traffic This is the coolest trick I learned while working at Blinkx. At the time, our management really hated when we go on any type of instant messaging applications. I also suspected that our messenger conversations and other internet activities were being monitored. I was pissed so this is what I did to combat their nosiness. Open an SSH Tunnel to a Remote Machine

Something for the weekend This is the ideal brunch recipe. Just imagine it, it's Sunday, everyone's sleepy, a little hungover and they're expecting you to whip up a storm. No problem-o. Sit them down with the papers, something lovely on the radio, perhaps a couple of mimosas, and scuttle off to the kitchen. You can have these done & dusted within half an hour and emerge triumphantly to ooh's and ahhh's (which will quickly turn into satisfied silence and nods of approval). So here we have it, my recipe for: Here's what fruits and vegetables looked like before we domesticated them Next time you bite into a slice of watermelon or a cob of corn, consider this: these familiar fruits and veggies didn't always look and taste this way. Genetically modified foods, or GMOs, inspire strong reactions nowadays, but humans have been tweaking the genetics of our favourite produce for millennia. While GMOs may involve splicing genes from other organisms (such as bacteria) to give plants desired traits – like resistance to pests, selective breeding is a slower process whereby farmers select and grow crops with those traits over time.

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