Gourmet edible flowers are aesthetically a beautiful touch to a fancy dessert or summer dish. Edible flowers are available year around from gourmet specialty shops, online sources and possibly even your garden yet they are definitely used more often in the spring and summer months when they can also be found at local […]
Ketchup, like many other condiments, is pretty shelf stable. Think about a burger joint where you see ketchup bottles on the table all day and night. Many places just fill those same bottles up to begin the next days business, over and over again. These practices bring people to question the […]
Question:
Does freezing kill germs?
Does freezing kill
bacteria?
Answer:
This answer may surprise you, but it turns out that bacteria actually can survive even in the deepest freeze. It doesn’t flourish, but it does survive.
Can you take that casserole left in the back of the fridge for longer […]
A common misconception with beef, and especially ground meat, is that brown meat equates to old meat. Although it is true that the absolute freshest ground beef possible, straight from the grinder, is red in color… a brown color in meat does not alone mean that the meat is old and unsafe.
There […]
This may sound strange, but the “fresh” shrimp that’s on ice at the grocery seafood counter is, the majority of the time, not as fresh as the bag of shrimp in the grocers freezer!
Most often, frozen shrimp is a smarter purchase than
fresh.
Thaw them yourself just […]