FYI cooking tips

 

To create oven-baked chicken taste like fried chicken, mix a little mayo into the traditional egg–and–bread crumbs coating. The mayo crisps up the individual bread crumbs while providing your chicken a rich texture similar to that of fried meals.

 

Whenever juicing limes or lemons, remove the bottom first so that all of the juice goes through the fruit rather than becoming stuck in the rind. Will not squander your grip strength on a few drips of lime juice!

 

Reduce grease splatters by sprinkling flour on your bacon. It will also crisp up your bacon.

 

When in doubt, use ground pepper instead of cracked pepper. Finely ground pepper, the sort that looks like dust, is excellent for sauces. It's quite potent, and a little goes a long way. Coarse ground pepper, on the other side, is great for flavoring meats or finishing meals at the table. It lends a flavor explosion to everything you put it in.