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Essential Equipment
Cooks Essentials — Below are our 8 articles in the essential equipment' category: Building Up a Good Spice Rack What the enthusiastic home cook really, really wants is to build up a good spice rack. Learning how to cook with spices is the way forward in... Caring ...More…
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Preserving and Bottling Your Produce
Cooks Essentials — If you want to go on enjoying the fresh produce from your garden long after the season has ended, why not give jam making a try. You'll soon be tackling home-made jellies, chutneys and other preserves too. Only one thing is better than harvesting ...More…
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Drying Seasonal Ingredients
Cooks Essentials — Many of us are rediscovering the fun and satisfaction of growing our own food. If crops are good you can extend the season by drying ingredients like herbs and mushrooms to last all year. Throughout the year, if you enjoy cooking, you will find ...More…
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I Brought My Cooking Into the 21st Century: A Case Study
Cooks Essentials — A lifetime of using the same routines for cooking, as for other activities, can becoming boring. One middle-aged housewife decided to rediscover her enthusiasm for it by bringing it into the 21st century. Liz had always enjoyed cooking but, now ...More…
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How I Set Up a Newly Weds' Kitchen: A Case Study
Cooks Essentials — One young bride setting up home for the first time discovered her dream kitchen was closer to home than she realised. How the kitchen would fit into the couple's everyday life was key to finding their ideal. Elsa is a 27-year-old midwife who ...More…
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Case Studies
Cooks Essentials — How I Set Up a Newly Weds' Kitchen: A Case Study One young bride setting up home for the first time discovered her dream kitchen was closer to home than she realised. How the kitchen would fit into... I Brought My Cooking Into the 21st Century: A ...More…
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Homemade Food With No Special Equipment
Cooks Essentials — The idea of home-made bread and other foods is becoming popular as we strive for a more wholesome diet. But before you invest in expensive special equipment, you may want to try the simple hands-on methods. As more of us try to adapt to a ...More…
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Which Vitamins Do What for Your Body?
Cooks Essentials — Vitamins play an essential role in helping our bodies grow and develop naturally. To make sure you are getting enough of the most important vitamins, and what they mean to your body, check out our quiz. There are certain essential vitamins that ...More…
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Ask Our Experts a Question
Cooks Essentials — We get lots of questions about CooksEssentials but unfortunately we just don't have the resources to enter into individual correspondence - though often we really want to. To address this we have introduced an 'Ask our Experts' section where ...More…
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What is a Balanced Meal?
Cooks Essentials — A guide to understanding the food groups so you can make sure you have a balanced diet A balanced meal is one that contains a healthy variety of all the major food groups. You don't have to have all food groups at every meal to ensure you have a ...More…
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Understanding the Different Food Groups
Cooks Essentials — A description of each of the major food groups with guidelines of how many portions a day to eat and be healthy Understanding the five different food groups will help you to enjoy a healthy, balanced diet. Each of the different food groups ...More…
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The Rules of Food Storage
Cooks Essentials — Top tips for understanding the basic rules of good food storage in the kitchen Good food storage is all about hygiene, safety and minimum wastage. It would be a terrible shame to have to throw away a portion of tasty homemade lasagne because ...More…