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1). 10 Steps For Cooking-Up Family Memories The kitchen is the perfect place for making memories. When you spend time baking, cooking and enjoying meals with your family, you create happy memories you and your children will cherish forever. The benefits of preparing and enjoying food as a family are clear. You save money and eat healthier meals. You create opportunities to conn... 2). Amuse-Bouche - Find Out About This Hot Trend In Entertaining Amuse-bouche is becoming the hottest trend in foods and entertaining. If you enjoy offering your guests interesting fare that always gets raves you should consider learning about the seduction of amuse-bouche. WHAT IS AMUSE-BOUCHE? The word amuse-bouche is a french expression, literally translated "mouth-amuser". And no ... 3). Family Meals - Better For Children, Easier For You Another day, another dinner to prepare. Are you having a difficult time finding easy to prepare meals that can satisfy your growing family? You want to give your family the best, but time is in short supply and preparing a healthy meal has become a chore. Too often take out or frozen dinners have to do. Is there a way to combine healt... 4). Hosting A Dinner Party Hire A Personal Chef! Think only the rich and famous have the privilege of having a personal chef wait on their every craving or gourmet pleasure? Think again. Personal chefs are now helping couples and families to present fabulous home cooked dinners to their guests. And it's not as expensive as you think! Why hire a personal chef? 5). How To Teach Your Children To Cook If you're ready to teach your children how to cook, here are some simple tips for teaching them the basics, and giving them skills that will last them a lifetime! First of all, think safety. Any child that has to stand on a stool or chair in order to reach the stove is too young to cook. Start younger children off by letting them help... 6). Kitchen Equipment: The Right Tools A basic kitchen needs a selection of pots and pans, some basic gadgets, and a collection of common spices and condiments. Pots and Pans: A minimum set includes a small frying pan, a one-quart saucepan with cover, a two-quart saucepan with cover, a large frying pan with cover, and a large pot (for spaghetti, stew, pot roa... 7). Kitchen Survival Recipe Guide You open the cookbook and see a recipe title or a photo that tempts your tastebuds. Then you start to read the recipe, realize the preparation is more difficult than you first thought, and put the book back on the shelf. Sound Familiar? Well here's a simple guide to help get you started: 1. Abbreviations for Measuring 8). Safe Food Handling For The Holidays Did you know that the turkey you thawed on the kitchen counter, instead of in the fridge, could now contain bacteria levels high enough to harm human life, even though you can’t see, smell, or taste it? There’s nothing better than a home cooked meal during the holidays. But, with all the special effort that goes into making one, every... 9). The Secret To Preparing The Perfect Paella According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, paella is a saffron-flavored dish made with varying combinations of rice, vegetables, meat, chicken and seafood. The Dictionary also explains that in the Old French and Catalan languages, paella means frying pan or pot. The traditional paella pan is flat and of large diameter, i... 10). The Well-Stocked Pantry -- A Cook's Secret Weapon Doing any job is easier when you have the right tools on hand. One of a cook's best tools -- and secret weapons -- is having a well-stocked pantry. Cooking is much simpler if you know that you've already got what you need on hand, and aren't going to have to run to the corner market every time you want to fix a meal. Hav... 11). Varieties Of Gourmet Olives The history of olives and olive oil can be traced back to at the least biblical times. When the waters of the great flood subsided and Noah sent forth a dove it was an olive leaf she returned carrying in her mouth. It is known that as long as 6000 years ago olive oil was used as fuel in lamps. Maybe it was this olive oil that created such a beautif...