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Healthy cooking begins with the food and ingredients, but you also need certain products and appliances along the way. The following kitchen appliances and tools will be helpful for all those homemade fall meals you intend to make. Continue reading
A slow cooker is one of the top cooking appliances to have during the fall season. It is going to help you cook healthy meals with minimal effort, and can give you a home-cooked meal that is done by the time you return home from work. Here are some of the top reasons you should have a slow cooker in yourkitchen.
Easy and Convenient to Use
A lot of people that use slow cookers want them due to how convenient they are. If you are spending hours in the evening chopping up vegetables and standing over a hot stove, you can definitely make use of a slow cooker.
With this type of appliance, you put all the ingredients inside in the morning, put it on low, then return several hours later to your dinner being done. There is no mixing or stirring that needs to be done once you turn it on. You can turn it on low if you want to cook your food for 6-8 hours, or on high for about 2-4 hours, such as when running errands during the day. Continue reading
Preparing foods ahead of time makes it possible for you to save money on your grocery bill.
You can find fruits and vegetables on sale during the summer and into fall months when they’re in season and cheaper. It helps to know which are freezer friendly fruits and vegetables so you can plan ahead to fill your freezer.
Not all fruits and vegetables will freeze well fresh from the garden. Fruits can often be frozen without much preparation but the same can’t be said about vegetables.
Most vegetables will require you to blanch them for about 5 minutes and then dip them into ice water to stop the cooking process before they can be frozen.
Start by choosing fruits and vegetables you plan to freeze at the peak of ripeness. The food should be firm and without bruises to ensure the best taste when they are used in the future. Don’t be afraid to sniff the fruit to see how it smells which may indicate how it tastes. Continue reading
Don’t you just love the colors of fall? There are some really great flowers that can add to the beautiful fall colors in your yard. Here are the ones you can plant to really make your yard look stunning.
Sunflower
One flower that you can enjoy at the end of summer and all the way to the first frost of fall is the sunflower. These large yellow flowers, while you might think of warmth, actually signal that fall is on its way. They begin to bloom in August and will last well into October and possibly even November.
Chrysanthemums
Chrysanthemums are really the perfect fall flower. They came in so many different varieties of colors that you really can get a beautiful vibrant garden with just different colors of chrysanthemums. November just so happens to have only one birth month flower while the rest of the months have two, and chrysanthemums are it for November. Continue reading
