What cooking shows teach you is how to be speedy with your food, while still keeping it flavorful. With people finding less and less time to cook, this is such a crucial lessen to learn. On Chopped, contestants make appetizers in just 20 minutes. Even if it takes you a little longer, how amazing would it be to hear that friends are on their way and have a dish ready for them by the time they arrive?

Food waste is another huge problem with cooking. These cooking shows more often than none are given ingredients to use that are sometimes just scraps or leftovers from another product, and the chefs manage to create something amazing from them. Learning how to use leftover foods so you don’t waste money on throwing away perfectly good ingredients will save you money, and make you a more sustainable person.

The post Watching Cooking Shows Can Make You a Better Chef! appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Though it’s healthier, and really delicious, ghee can often be super expensive. Luckily, you can make it at home in a snap and save yourself a lot of money!

Recipe

1. The best type of butter to use when making ghee is something organic, high quality, and cultured if you can.
2. Put the butter in a pot and heat over medium-high and allow it melt.
3. Once the butter is melted, it will start to bubble but don’t worry! Just leave it be. If the bubbles are too big, turn down the heat to a simmer.
4. Then, the bubbles will break up and there will be no more foam.
5. Stir the butter every once in a while and then wait until it foams again and the mixture becomes a little darker in color, but not burnt.
6. When it’s done, the foam should have some brown bits on top.
7. Turn off the heat and wait for it to cool before you strain it.
8. Put cheesecloth over a fine mesh strainer and pour the butter through.
9. Jar it, and keep it in your pantry for at least a month if it lasts that long!

The post Make Your Own Ghee at Home in 10 Minutes! appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

To get back the control over your life, you need to establish some habits and to improve some skills. The great place to start is cooking and you don’t need more than three dishes to begin with.

Grilled Chicken

Learn how to cook your meat properly so you don’t end up with something dry and tasteless. Experiment with herbs and spices and don’t be afraid to try new recipes from the internet over weekends.

A Favorite Appetizer

It’s amazing to have a go-to recipe for a dip or a snack that you can make whenever you’re expected to bring something to a party.

Eggs

Whether you prefer them boiled, scrambled, or poached, there’s plenty of room to improve your egg-making game and make them perfect every single time.

The post If You’re Over 20 It’s Time You Learn to Make These Dishes appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Cook

Microwaves aren’t only good for reheating food; you can use yours to actually make dinner from scratch. All you need is a right recipe and you can cook risotto, dumplings, or even chicken in no time.

Make Cake

Have you ever tried making cake-in-a-mug in under 2 minutes in your microwave? Once you do, you’ll never need another recipe for a quick dessert.

Dry Herbs

If you’ve stumbled upon some fresh herbs on the market and you want to keep them to use later, dry them in your microwave.

Foam Milk

Pour your latte milk in a jar, close the lid and shake for around a minute. After it became foamy, stick it in the microwave for 30 seconds so it doesn’t dissolve.

The post Things You Didn’t Know Your Microwave Could Do appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

All About Easter

Some like bunnies, others love eggs. Get to work, and use a number of different shapes for the cookies. You will have so much time decorating them all in a different color. This is the best option for everyone who can’t decide on a single food art trend for this big holiday. Instead, you’ll have so many cute cookies.

The Tie-Dye Trend

Tie-dye is one of the coolest prints of the season and now it can make its way into your kitchen. It’s colorful, fun and it will be a blast to do these Easter cookies. Your guests will love them so much that they’ll want to take some home.

Crochet

Crochet is not old-fashioned at all. If you are planning on upgrading your Easter cookies with a unique print this year, crochet can be the winning look.

Marble Cookies

Marble looks good on everything, including nails, decorations and now cookies. Your Easter creations can be so gorgeous thanks to this fabulous food art. Use soft, pastel colors, and add some gold or silver hints at the end.

The post Cute, Fun Ideas To Decorate Your Easter Cookies appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

A lot of recipes will often call for scallions, but sometimes only one part of it. A scallion, or green onion, has two parts to it: the upper green part and the lower white part. Although they combine to make one vegetable, how is it that the flavors are so different that recipes have to specify which parts they need? If you’re curious about this yourself, you’re not alone.

Green

The upper green part of the scallion has more of a mild flavor, and is therefore used more of a garnish. This is the part of the green onion that you want to use if you’re not cooking something but still want just a hint of an onion taste. It’s also really pretty and green, so even more of a reason to use it on top of your favorite meals.

White

The lower white half of the green onion has a more onion-y flavor to it, probably because it’s closer to the root s in the ground which provides the flavor of the vegetable. This part of the scallion should be used more when you’re cooking as it a much stronger flavor. If you do use it raw, think of it as using a raw white onion.

The post What is the Difference Between the Green and White Parts of a Scallion? appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Spices

Spices are one of the best ways to bring any food to life. Spices have been used for medicinal purposes for centuries, so whenever you use them in your cooking, you are ingesting their nutritional and medicinal properties! A great way to make sure they shine is to toast them first or cook them in some oil to really bloom their flavor.

Homemade Stock

Whether you’re making a soup, sauce, or even rice, using homemade stock is the best way to impart flavor without adding any salt! All you have to do is boil your scraps of veggie, strain them, and you have liquid gold at your fingertips.

Acid

Sometimes all your dish needs is a squeeze of acid to really bring it to life. Whether it’s a salad, taco, soup, or more, squeezing some fresh citrus juice or drizzling over a little bit of vinegar is a great way to balance a dish with no added calories.

The post How to Add Flavor – but Not Calories appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Although the most well known way to measure ingredients is by using measuring cups, that’s actually not the best or most accurate way to go about it. Measuring cups are never precise, because each ingredient sits in the cups differently, making the measurements off. If you want to de-clutter your kitchen of all those measuring cups, jugs, and spoons, get yourself a kitchen scale that can do it all.

Accuracy

What a digital kitchen scale does that a measuring cup cannot is measure things exactly right. Things like flour and brown sugar can be really thrown off if not measured correctly, and especially when you’re baking, you want things to be as precise as possible.

Wet and Dry

A lot of kitchen scales have the option to switch measurements, which is great when you want to weight wet and dry ingredients. Since wet ingredients should go into a pitcher or beaker container normally and not into a measuring cup, it’s nice to have something that can measure everything in your recipe.

Savory

Kitchen scales are normally used for baking, but they’re great for cooking as well! If you want to portion out your food exactly, using a kitchen scale is the best way to go. It can also ensure that if you’re making something like burgers or steak that everyone gets an equal share.

The post Why a Kitchen Scale is Always Better than Measuring Cups appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Know Your Recipe

Are you reading the recipe as you go? Try getting familiar with the recipe first so you can optimize the steps and avoid redundant dishes.

Clean First

Don’t start cooking unless your kitchen is sparkling clean, otherwise, you’ll have no choice but to dump the new dishes on top of the old ones.

Get Ingredients Ready

Measure out everything you’re going to need and place it in front of you and you’ll feel like a cooking show star.

Get Help

Your kid or significant other can help you a lot if they just wash the dishes as you work. Kitchen party!

The post Tips for Cooking Without Making a Huge Mess appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Tools

The only tools you will need to open a coconut is a hammer, a screwdriver, and a cup. If you want a better grip on the coconut, you can also hold it with a kitchen towel.

Instructions

1. Take a screwdriver and put it into one of the dark eyes of the coconut.
2. Take a hammer and knock on the screwdriver until you make a hole.
3. Repeat that on one more eye, and put the coconut upside into a cup so the water can drain out.
4. Once all the water has drained, take the screw driver and put it in the middle of the fruit horizontally and hit it with the hammer.
5. Continue to do with around until you can pull the two halves apart or until it breaks naturally.
6. Scrape out the meat from the shell and enjoy!

The post Learn to Open a Coconut and Feel Empowered appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

What cooking shows teach you is how to be speedy with your food, while still keeping it flavorful. With people finding less and less time to cook, this is such a crucial lessen to learn. On Chopped, contestants make appetizers in just 20 minutes. Even if it takes you a little longer, how amazing would it be to hear that friends are on their way and have a dish ready for them by the time they arrive?

Food waste is another huge problem with cooking. These cooking shows more often than none are given ingredients to use that are sometimes just scraps or leftovers from another product, and the chefs manage to create something amazing from them. Learning how to use leftover foods so you don’t waste money on throwing away perfectly good ingredients will save you money, and make you a more sustainable person.

The post Watching Cooking Shows Can Make You a Better Chef! appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Though it’s healthier, and really delicious, ghee can often be super expensive. Luckily, you can make it at home in a snap and save yourself a lot of money!

Recipe

1. The best type of butter to use when making ghee is something organic, high quality, and cultured if you can.
2. Put the butter in a pot and heat over medium-high and allow it melt.
3. Once the butter is melted, it will start to bubble but don’t worry! Just leave it be. If the bubbles are too big, turn down the heat to a simmer.
4. Then, the bubbles will break up and there will be no more foam.
5. Stir the butter every once in a while and then wait until it foams again and the mixture becomes a little darker in color, but not burnt.
6. When it’s done, the foam should have some brown bits on top.
7. Turn off the heat and wait for it to cool before you strain it.
8. Put cheesecloth over a fine mesh strainer and pour the butter through.
9. Jar it, and keep it in your pantry for at least a month if it lasts that long!

The post Make Your Own Ghee at Home in 10 Minutes! appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

To get back the control over your life, you need to establish some habits and to improve some skills. The great place to start is cooking and you don’t need more than three dishes to begin with.

Grilled Chicken

Learn how to cook your meat properly so you don’t end up with something dry and tasteless. Experiment with herbs and spices and don’t be afraid to try new recipes from the internet over weekends.

A Favorite Appetizer

It’s amazing to have a go-to recipe for a dip or a snack that you can make whenever you’re expected to bring something to a party.

Eggs

Whether you prefer them boiled, scrambled, or poached, there’s plenty of room to improve your egg-making game and make them perfect every single time.

The post If You’re Over 20 It’s Time You Learn to Make These Dishes appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Cook

Microwaves aren’t only good for reheating food; you can use yours to actually make dinner from scratch. All you need is a right recipe and you can cook risotto, dumplings, or even chicken in no time.

Make Cake

Have you ever tried making cake-in-a-mug in under 2 minutes in your microwave? Once you do, you’ll never need another recipe for a quick dessert.

Dry Herbs

If you’ve stumbled upon some fresh herbs on the market and you want to keep them to use later, dry them in your microwave.

Foam Milk

Pour your latte milk in a jar, close the lid and shake for around a minute. After it became foamy, stick it in the microwave for 30 seconds so it doesn’t dissolve.

The post Things You Didn’t Know Your Microwave Could Do appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

All About Easter

Some like bunnies, others love eggs. Get to work, and use a number of different shapes for the cookies. You will have so much time decorating them all in a different color. This is the best option for everyone who can’t decide on a single food art trend for this big holiday. Instead, you’ll have so many cute cookies.

The Tie-Dye Trend

Tie-dye is one of the coolest prints of the season and now it can make its way into your kitchen. It’s colorful, fun and it will be a blast to do these Easter cookies. Your guests will love them so much that they’ll want to take some home.

Crochet

Crochet is not old-fashioned at all. If you are planning on upgrading your Easter cookies with a unique print this year, crochet can be the winning look.

Marble Cookies

Marble looks good on everything, including nails, decorations and now cookies. Your Easter creations can be so gorgeous thanks to this fabulous food art. Use soft, pastel colors, and add some gold or silver hints at the end.

The post Cute, Fun Ideas To Decorate Your Easter Cookies appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

A lot of recipes will often call for scallions, but sometimes only one part of it. A scallion, or green onion, has two parts to it: the upper green part and the lower white part. Although they combine to make one vegetable, how is it that the flavors are so different that recipes have to specify which parts they need? If you’re curious about this yourself, you’re not alone.

Green

The upper green part of the scallion has more of a mild flavor, and is therefore used more of a garnish. This is the part of the green onion that you want to use if you’re not cooking something but still want just a hint of an onion taste. It’s also really pretty and green, so even more of a reason to use it on top of your favorite meals.

White

The lower white half of the green onion has a more onion-y flavor to it, probably because it’s closer to the root s in the ground which provides the flavor of the vegetable. This part of the scallion should be used more when you’re cooking as it a much stronger flavor. If you do use it raw, think of it as using a raw white onion.

The post What is the Difference Between the Green and White Parts of a Scallion? appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Spices

Spices are one of the best ways to bring any food to life. Spices have been used for medicinal purposes for centuries, so whenever you use them in your cooking, you are ingesting their nutritional and medicinal properties! A great way to make sure they shine is to toast them first or cook them in some oil to really bloom their flavor.

Homemade Stock

Whether you’re making a soup, sauce, or even rice, using homemade stock is the best way to impart flavor without adding any salt! All you have to do is boil your scraps of veggie, strain them, and you have liquid gold at your fingertips.

Acid

Sometimes all your dish needs is a squeeze of acid to really bring it to life. Whether it’s a salad, taco, soup, or more, squeezing some fresh citrus juice or drizzling over a little bit of vinegar is a great way to balance a dish with no added calories.

The post How to Add Flavor – but Not Calories appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Although the most well known way to measure ingredients is by using measuring cups, that’s actually not the best or most accurate way to go about it. Measuring cups are never precise, because each ingredient sits in the cups differently, making the measurements off. If you want to de-clutter your kitchen of all those measuring cups, jugs, and spoons, get yourself a kitchen scale that can do it all.

Accuracy

What a digital kitchen scale does that a measuring cup cannot is measure things exactly right. Things like flour and brown sugar can be really thrown off if not measured correctly, and especially when you’re baking, you want things to be as precise as possible.

Wet and Dry

A lot of kitchen scales have the option to switch measurements, which is great when you want to weight wet and dry ingredients. Since wet ingredients should go into a pitcher or beaker container normally and not into a measuring cup, it’s nice to have something that can measure everything in your recipe.

Savory

Kitchen scales are normally used for baking, but they’re great for cooking as well! If you want to portion out your food exactly, using a kitchen scale is the best way to go. It can also ensure that if you’re making something like burgers or steak that everyone gets an equal share.

The post Why a Kitchen Scale is Always Better than Measuring Cups appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Know Your Recipe

Are you reading the recipe as you go? Try getting familiar with the recipe first so you can optimize the steps and avoid redundant dishes.

Clean First

Don’t start cooking unless your kitchen is sparkling clean, otherwise, you’ll have no choice but to dump the new dishes on top of the old ones.

Get Ingredients Ready

Measure out everything you’re going to need and place it in front of you and you’ll feel like a cooking show star.

Get Help

Your kid or significant other can help you a lot if they just wash the dishes as you work. Kitchen party!

The post Tips for Cooking Without Making a Huge Mess appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.

Tools

The only tools you will need to open a coconut is a hammer, a screwdriver, and a cup. If you want a better grip on the coconut, you can also hold it with a kitchen towel.

Instructions

1. Take a screwdriver and put it into one of the dark eyes of the coconut.
2. Take a hammer and knock on the screwdriver until you make a hole.
3. Repeat that on one more eye, and put the coconut upside into a cup so the water can drain out.
4. Once all the water has drained, take the screw driver and put it in the middle of the fruit horizontally and hit it with the hammer.
5. Continue to do with around until you can pull the two halves apart or until it breaks naturally.
6. Scrape out the meat from the shell and enjoy!

The post Learn to Open a Coconut and Feel Empowered appeared first on Beautiful Trends Today.