Break Your Bad Cooking Habits! Here’s how..

We all remember “how moma used to make it” and how great it tasted.  Well, that may not be the healthiest way to prepare your meals.  Here’s a few choices, how to break those cooking habits which are bad for you:

Have you ever done this? You find an awesome recipe with a beautiful picture. You get all the ingredients, put in a ton of effort to get the perfect result—and then it just doesn’t turn out right. You check the ingredient list twice, you reread the steps and you can’t figure out where you went wrong.

Here are 4 bad cooking habits you should try to break.

Bad habit #1: You dip and sweep the flour

When measuring flour, plenty of people fill their measuring cup by dipping it into the bag, leveling it off and dumping it into the bowl. This is a common mistake. Here’s why it doesn’t work: The dipping motion packs the flour into the cup, giving you more than you really need. The result? Dense baked goods.

How to do it right: The correct way to measure flour is scooping it lightly into the measuring cup with a spoon and leveling it off at the top.

How to break other bad habits, check them out:

http://www.eatingwell.com/healthy_cooking/healthy_cooking_101_basics_and_techniques/how_to_break_your_bad_cooking_habits?page=2&utm_source=YahooBlog_KerriAnn_CastIron_100411

Here’s to healthy eating…. enjoy….

—Hilary Meyer, EatingWell Associate Food Editor