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Become a Better Cook

Smart cooks don't spend a lot of money or time in the kitchen because they understand ingredients and learn from their mistakes.  Knowing the tricks to keeping meal preparation simple gives them the freedom to experiment and add creative and personalized flair to meals.


Tips and Hints :

Tips on Modifying Recipes
- Learn how recipes can be made milder, spicier, sweeter, or low -carb
- Make food more or less formal, or even into completely  new dishes
- Alternative flavorings and ingredient suggestions to guide you in personalizing meals

Money-Saving Tips
- Ideas for using "leftover" ingredients from the recipes
- Using what you have on hand in your kitchen cabinet
- Shopping smarter and in the right parts of the store

Hints for Cutting Cooking Time
- See how to re-order traditional cooking steps to be more efficient in the kitchen
- Learn many simple things you can do in advance of meals to cut prep time or increase the number of meals you can make by keeping a few key ingredients on hand

Creative and Fun Ideas to Bring Life into Your Cooking
- Show others you care by understanding how to incorporate their dietary and flavor preferences into meal preparation
- Learn how to incorporate small, unexpected surprises into your cooking for the benefit of your loved ones and make the simplest meals a little more special
- Make cooking fun; not a boring, mundane task!

Related Features on this site:
Special How-To Features
Cookbook Recipe Index
The Kitchen Toolkit