Tips + Tidbits

Misc

Love food? Love quotes? Here’s a list of quotes I’ve used on this blog!

How-To’s and Resources

Cooking Conversion tables – extremely helpful when reading foreign recipes!

Ingredient Substitutions, from Joy of Baking

How to fix cooking mistakes, from KitchenDaily

How-To’s from The Pioneer Woman – great guides on how to chop an onion, how to make chocolate curls, etc.

How to make chickpea flour. Or better yet, buy it if you can!

Fresh Ginger Tips, from Steamy Kitchen

Articles relating to food and health, from around the web.

The Truth Behind Excessive Sugar Intake is All Over Your Face – Bon Appétit, 4/7/10
Ack! Is overconsumption of refined sugars affecting the quality of your skin? Let’s face it, sometimes vanity is a better motivator than health. Read on…

Get Egg-Static! – Skinny in the City, 3/31/10
On the health benefits of eggs.

High-Fructose Corn Syrup Prompts Considerably More Weight Gain, Researchers Find – Science Daily, 3/22/10
A study on rats shows that high-fructose corn syrup contributes to more weight gain than table sugar.

Health Halo Can Hide the Calories – New York Times, 12/1/08
How a perception of “healthy food” can skew our interpretation of calorie count.