Cooking Mama

do some meal prep! Meal prep will make your life so much easier and make eating healthy a breeze. Aside from making your life easier, prepping your meals for the week can actually be relaxing. Being in the kitchen by yourself, chopping vegetables, cooking and storing your meals is very calming. You get to enjoy some quiet and have the opportunity to do a little healthy snacking in the process. Here is how to meal prep properly. The first thing you want to do is pick a day of the week that you…

STREETS OF NEW YORK There are hundreds of mobile eateries selling gourmet global cuisine across the city of New York, alongside traditional hotdog vendors and halal carts to name few of them. According to New York Times, there are great cheap global lunch options in the corners of Manthttan, and not just in ethnic pockets like Koreatown or Little Brazil, but right outside the office building in Midtown. They are saying good bye to the Baja Fresh nacho burrito which I think is very boring food to…

20 things I learned in my first year as a mom! 1. The first meal after childbirth seems so delicious that tears come to your eyes. Even if it is a chicken soup dish with three toasted rye, it seems like your fried pork! 2. Each passing day it seems and easier. After more and more difficult .... Once again easy ... difficult ... and so on! 3. You buy wonderful handmade toys for baby, of course non-toxic materials and organic cotton dolls, but the baby will want to play only with your i phone…

Blue Apron is a well recognized food service that delivers ingredients and recipes to people's houses. Ingredients delivered also seem to be always high quality even though things such as meat that can easily be contaminated is used the cooking process of the food. They also have large quantity of recipes within their cookbook database that expands everyday with new a healthy recipes. They even categorize food in a way which allows people to easily navigate the cookbook and see what they may…

On February 28th 2017, I was scheduled to job shadow the General Manager/ Certified Chef at Crafthouse in Weatherford, Oklahoma. The General Manager that I followed around was Tyler Stinson. He has an associate’s degree in culinary arts and sciences. He has been in the Service and hospitality business since he was 15 years old, for nearly 20 years, with 12 years of that being in management positions. He attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University as a history education major, he then decided…

Busy schedules can make it difficult to find time for meals together as a family, but spending mealtime together at least a few times a week is important for kids and parents alike. Sharing a meal with family members is beneficial, helping to improve relationships and give family members an opportunity to talk about their day. The staff at Steve T Hots & Potatoes, a Rochester, NY deli famous for its Zweigles hot dogs and burgers, explains why you should make time for family dinner at their 24…

When I was a kid, I remember that my grandmother used to make the best chicken stew I had ever tasted. It was the Puerto Rican family recipe. Well that is what she called it. She always made it in this big blue pot with dots all over it. Every time I seen that pot on the stove, I knew right away it was chicken stew day. The stew was filled with all sorts of different vegetables and spices. If I think about it really hard, the stew is a resemblance of me. I have all sorts of different ethnicities…

Campfire Cookbook Review Camping is a wonderful past time. Fresh air, nature, sunshine, and nights around the fire are something everyone should try to experience. Whatever the images are that leap to mind when camping is mentioned, the one question we all ask is: “What are we going to eat?” While you can get by with GORP, trail mix, and “hot dog on a stick”; I say, “WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?” If it is all you have, absolutely, eat it. Then find civilization, because you aren't going to last…

“Approximately 792.5 million people in the world do not get the food they need to live a healthy life. That is nearly one out of every nine people on earth (Stop Hunger Now).” This is such a devastating thought that many people become overwhelmed and don’t know how to help the hungry people in this world. Hunger may not be stopped all at once, but it can be stopped in a small portion. Once a program is started in a community, it can expand to more communities helping thousands of people. In the…

already taken the class. However, they mentioned the class as Home-EC. It was my job to find out what this class was really all about. It turns out Family and Consumer Science class was just a fancy set of words for cooking class. At the time as an eleven year old boy, I had no interest in cooking. Why would I need to cook? That's what my mom was for. I never had to cook for myself in my entire life. At the time the class was teaching me all of these techniques - whisking eggs,…