Ways of cooking

How often we make our meals or food can be a determining factor if our family and friends will enjoy it or not. It can be boring when certain foods are cooked in same manner everytime. Most times I try out new things and add fun to it whenever I can. From food to drinks, I sure tell you, it can be different, colourful, healthy and fun. I will make out a list on ways of cooking and allow you compare your cooking to see if your weekly menu is becoming if not boring.

• Boiling: This is cooking in boiling water or cooking by immersion in water. Foods like potatoes, yams, pasta, rice, beef, boiled eggs,etc. This form of cooking is the most commonly used. However, I like to boil vegetables also like carrots, cabbage, peas to make them tender to eat especially for my kids whom i love to incorporate veggies in their daily meal.
• Frying: This is cooking by immersion in hot deep fat or oil. This is most people's favourite cos people like eating fried potatoes chips, nuggets, chicken etc. Some people consider fried foods as unhealthy but i always disagree with most of these recent tv programmes that classify foods as good and bad foods. I believe that no food is bad, what is bad is the individual choices we make. To eat just french fries, bags of chips and other plastic foods everyday and having no control is the bad choice and not to pin any food as bad food.
• Baking: Simply, it's cooking in confined heat in an oven . Foods like pies, cakes, bread are good examples of baked foods. Potatoes can also be baked in the oven. This I often cook with chicken or beef in a casserole with the potatoes peeled and quatered. Meats cooked in the oven are not called baked but roasted.
• Roasting: This is cooking before an open fire. This method is rarely used in small households. Some refer to it as roasting while others call it barbecue. It's usually conducted in an open space which allows the smoke to escape freely.
• Stewing: Is cooking slowly in a small amount of water at a low heat until food is very tender. Stewing meats like beef, chicken breast, lamb cut in bits gives me the best taste the meat could ever offer. With it's method of slow cooking, the meat has the time to tenderize, letting out its juices and being very palatable. I would share my recipes in my coming articles.
• Grilling/Broiling: This is cooking over or under direct heat; over glowing coals or under a gas flame using your grilling pan. Grilling can also be done in an oven. Most manufacturers provide a grilling rack in many conventional ovens. Beef, turkey steaks are excellent grill foods. They are quick, easy as well as tasty. Grill pans are like frying pans but flatter with lines in the bottom. These give my steaks beautiful golden stripes and make them irresistable.

Other methods of cooking coming up in the next article. Stay around.
Ate ja.