The Perfect Boiled Egg

Knowing how to boil an egg is an essential skill to have in your cooking knowledge base. Here is a recipe for the perfect boiled egg. Please see the recipe for Eggs Mimosa when you are finished make these hard-boiled eggs. The end result are really tasty prepare eggs.

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Cream Cheese French Toast w/Mixed Berry Sauce

It's the weekend and the thought of cooking bacon again makes you think about spraying Febreze® all afternoon to get the smell out of your house is way too much for a lazy Saturday.

If you're like me you'll want an alternative to the same ol' Breakfast Fare. The following dish is also an alternative to taking a fork to that leftover Marionberry pie from the night before. The pie will be delicious but when you prepare this recipe you can take pride in cooking a dish that is so sinful you won't believe you're eating breakfast.

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Choosing a Knife

Have you ever watched a chef cut up an onion so quick and thought, 'I'm never gonna do that. I'll chop my knuckle off.'

Then there is that chef chopping at the speed of light with their tucked under holding the uncut vegetable. How the heck do they do that? I tried it one and decided that move wasn't for me.

The reason why I didn't do it just like the chef on tv was because their knife was heavy and sharp. I am not an expert on sharp knives (although I cut three fingers and received multiple stitched while sharpening one some years back). What I do know is that having a sharp knife is an essential tool in the kitchen.

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