You are looking through the frosted oven windowpane at your meal getting cooked. You see it looks golden but you wonder if it is cooking at the right temperature. Why is it taking so long? If you simply assume it is okay, you might end up with food poisoning or with a completely burnt husk of a meal. What to do? Lots of ingredients need to be cooked to specific temperatures, and this will often be clearly indicated in the recipe you are following. This is due to various reasons: the … [Read more...] about The Best Oven Thermometer in 2018: accuracy, quality, and control

It sounds like a vaguely philosophical question, but— really— how much juice is in one lemon? Lots of recipes call for the aid of this tart, sweet fruit, and they all give different measures and measuring references. What is one lone cook to do? Come to Cooky Aunty, of course! In my many years of kitchen experience (both as a hobbyist cook and in a professional setting), I have perfected the art of intuitively measuring the amount of lemon juice I need. But it took me quite a while to get … [Read more...] about How Much Juice in One Lemon? Now, That is The Question : CookyAunty

You have bought your sausages, prepared your side dishes, and set the table for the evening. Everyone is coming! But, at the last moment, you wonder how to cook Italian sausage? It’s supposed to be easy, isn’t it? Find all the tips and tricks for cooking Italian sausage here. My love— and my family’s love— for a good, hearty meal as well as my interest in European cooking mean that we taste flavors from other cultures as often as we can. Sure, we love Vietnamese, Indonesian, Peruvian, German— … [Read more...] about How to Cook Italian Sausage- Spicy, Sweet Goodness : CookyAunty

It’s winter and you have been walking around in the cold. You were wearing warm clothes but, alas, you still got a cold and a  cough that won’t quit. Someone recommends that you take a cough drop and you think “how do cough drops work?” Should I give them a chance? No matter whether you’re in the below zero range or your little one developed a crazy cough after dancing in the rain, cough drops are an age-old sort of remedy. Not only do they actually work, but they also take you back to … [Read more...] about How do cough drops work – the cough drop low-down