Cooking - Helpful Hints

Here are some hints that you might find useful.

* Do not discard over-ripe bananas. Slice and sprinkle it with lemon juice. Ice it to use later for milk shakes, puddings or banana bread. It will blacken if you refrigerate it.

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* If you only need a few drops of lemon juice, puncture a lemon with a toothpick and squeeze out the estimate needed. Replace the toothpick. If the lemon is cut, it won't last as long.

* Fresh ginger will stay fresh for months in a freezer if you wrap it tightly in foil.

* To isolate the leaves of a round lettuce, hit the core end sharply against the kitchen counter top. The core can be pulled out and the leaves will isolate without tearing into strips.

Here is a tasty fish method which you can try:

Cod in Caper Mayonnaise.

4 cod fillets, skinned

Salt and pepper to taste

150ml dry white wine

½ lemon, sliced

6 table spoons mayonnaise

4 tablespoons lemon juice

50g capers, chopped

Place the fish in a frying pan and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add the wine and lemon slices, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

Remove the fish from the pan, reserving 2 tablespoons of the cooking liquor, and leave to cool.
Mix together the mayonnaise, lemon juice and reserved liquor.

Stir in the capers.

Place the fish in a serving dish and top with the caper sauce. Serve cold.

And a chicken recipe;

Pineapple chicken.

4 chicken portions

1 onion, thinly sliced

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

pinch of paprika

1 x 539g can unsweetened pineapple juice

chopped parsley to garnish.

Put the chicken in a casserole dish. Sprinkle with the onion, salt,pepper,rosemary,ginger and paprika and pour over the pineapple juice.

Cook in a preheated oven, 180c, Gas Mark 4, for 45 minutes or until the chicken is cooked and browned on top. Serve hot, garnished with parsley.

Cooking - Helpful Hints

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