Should you freeze tofu whole or cut it into cubes and slices first? Learn which tastes better and how you can add a novel twist to your tofu dishes.
Techniques & Tutorials
Cooking for yourself, despite your busy schedule, requires having the right techniques and systems to save you time and energy.
We're here to share ideas and inspiration for setting up your kitchen, organizing your meal plan, and batch cooking all without panicking.
Learn how to make cooking easy, fun, and relaxing with an ingredients-first approach so you'll be looking forward to eating in instead of ordering out.
What Is Umami and How to Add Umami to Your Cooking
Learn how to give your cooking the X factor that makes your food delicious. These simple tricks will keep your guests coming back for seconds helpings.
How to Cook and Organize Your Kitchen to Reduce and Prevent Back Pain
If your back pain makes it hard to cook, check out these strategies for how I organize my ingredients and kitchen equipment to reduce and prevent lower back pain.
How to Make Spice Sachets (Sachet d’Épices) Using Coffee Filters and Teabags
Save time and hassle with a spice sachet so you can bundle your spices and toss after cooking. Check out a secret hack you’ll want to use with spice sachets.
How to Drain Silken Tofu and Which Recipes Need It
Learn whether there is a benefit to draining silken tofu and which recipes need it. Plus a tutorial on how to drain silken tofu.
How to Stir Fry At Home: From Veggies to Meat to Tofu to Rice
Master the simple process of stir frying & you’ll have dinner ready in 30 minutes or less. From veggies to meat to tofu to rice, learn to stir fry at home.
6 Tips to Eliminate Undesirable Lumps in Your Hot Cocoa
Learn whether making a cocoa paste or sifting your cocoa powder is more effective for making clump-free hot cocoa, plus 4 extra tips for smooth hot cocoa.
How to Eat Less Meat Without Going Vegetarian
Learn how to eat less meat WITHOUT becoming vegetarian or vegan and overcome the challenges of food boredom, bingeing on carbs, and going to bed hungry.
How to Make Easy Tea & Coffee Wedding Favors (+ Free Printables)
Step-by-step tutorial to make charming tea & coffee wedding favors. These quick and easy favors help you show your guests appreciation and still stay sane.
5 Tips for Batch Cooking — How to Stay Sane While Avoiding Food Poisoning
How can you batch cook to save time yet eat nutritious AND delicious food? Get the 5 tips to batch cooking while staying sane and avoiding food poisoning.
How to Bake Pies When Your Kitchen Is Hot
Follow these tips to make pies and pie crusts when your kitchen is burning hot from summer heat or an unexpected heat wave during Thanksgiving & Christmas.
How Meal Planning Saves You Mental Energy
In 2000, Kathy Sierra and her husband tried to write a best-selling programming book on Java after they lost their jobs due to the dot-com crash. The odds were stacked against them. There were more than 16,000 books on Java to compete with, many of them famous and fantastic. But Kathy had an ace in…
How the Reverse Shopping List Works
Two weeks ago, I attended a financial independence meetup about where we discussed our food budget. A couple mentioned their strategy at a low-cost grocery store like Grocery Outlet. They go inside and look at what’s on sale. They prepare food based on the deals and bargains they picked up. I used to shop like…
How to Meal Plan the Sane Way
When you have a recipe formulae library and food inventory, you’re ready to plan out your 3 meals a day plus snacks. I know it seems counter-intuitive. Why work harder by meal planning and food prepping? Why not just wing it in the grocery store? Yes, it is more work to plan. But trust me, it’s less stress…
How the Recipe Formulae Works
This story contains an affiliate link to a book on Amazon. But just the one 🙂 and it’s about the best advice Katie Couric ever got. What’s the biggest difference between baking and cooking? In my mind, it boils down to one difference: Baking follows a rigid recipe: skip the baking powder and you’re in trouble!…
How the Food Inventory Works And Why You Should Do It
Are you trying to order less take-out meals and cook more at home? Meal planning and meal prep are critical to being successful. But did you know that one of the biggest hurdles to meal planning is not making a food inventory? Learn what a food inventory is and why you should include it in…
Why Meal Planners On the Internet Suck
It’s late at night. You’re drained from work, and it’s dinner time. Now you have to work even harder to put a meal on the table. You’re not alone. This is our reality, every weekday. Our solution is our meal planning system, and it doesn’t involve batch cooking. Thank goodness. So, how do you plan…
What Are The Benefits Of A Meal Planning System?
Yes, it’s a pain in the butt. But (pun intended), there are 3 big benefits of meal planning worth remembering: Declutter Our fridge has never been so organized and therefore easy to find things. As you may know, we’ve had some housemate conflicts with our fridge. Now, we worry less about selfishly taking over too much…
Why Use A Meal Planning System?
“We’re taking control of our cooking time!” “Let’s spend less time cooking and more time eating.” “We have a plan and we’re sticking to it.” Have you uttered these sentences before? Have you been optimistic about increasing your cooking efficiency only to discover an hour later that you’re knee deep in an ambitious cooking project…
Our #1 Food Problem and How You Can Solve It
Our biggest food problem is spending too much time cooking on weeknights. Hear Me Out You might be thinking, “that’s what you signed up for when you started a food website!! You nincompoop.” Well, yes that’s true. But I am not counting any of the publishing tasks related to this website. My assessment is based…
