Cooking Mama

1. The A Frame Chicken & Hen Coop Design To build a chicken coop for your hens doesn’t have to be a complicated matter or take days to complete. Just take a look at this easy chicken coop design provided by Anna White which shows you how to build a small hen coop. A great feature of this home made coop is that it’s portable so that you can move it around your backyard. It will cost you less than $100, and you can have it ready in a couple of hours. Link:…

The food practices of humans are determined by values, attitudes, beliefs, and environmental and religious circumstances; all of which are the products of tradition, culture, and contacts. Knowledge and culture affect the intake of a particular food. The success in understanding the culture of other countries or ethnic groups lies in understanding their rituals in food consumption customs. In developing countries, culture plays a crucial role in determining food patterns. Each ethnic group has…

Chicken Soup with Curry and Squash Calories: 219/serving Carbohydrates: 41 grams Ingredients 1/2 yellow onion (sliced thinly) 2 tablespoons coconut or canola oil 1 tablespoon fresh ginger (grated) Kosher salt (to taste) 2 tablespoons curry powder 1/2 pound Butternut squash (peeled and diced into large chunks) 2 tablespoons tomato paste 4 cups of chicken stock 1 tablespoon thyme (minced) 1 tablespoon garlic (grated) 2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 can of tomato (diced) 1/2 pound sweet…

Being the Hallmark afficionado that I am, I am definitely a fan of the daily show Home & Family. Even though I don 't consistently have the opportunity to watch all the segments every single day, there are some names embedded in my memory and various segments that are genuinely memorable. And "Renegade Kitchen" is decidedly one of those. Then again, I am the cook in my household, and it is something I have continuously enjoyed doing for my family and friends. Recently, I caught up with Dan…

contain more calories, most of them of the “healthy” variety” (Bittman, 2011). The author’s main purpose of this article is to try to get the audience to cook more at home instead of eating out but at the same time the amount of calories between cooking a meal at home and going out can be equal or possibly more if the audience wants to eat healthier or less calories. There really isn’t a difference other than cost…

When I was younger I never imagine that I would one day open my own Food truck. I had always loved to cook as a kid, I would stand in the kitchen and watch my mother cook. It was almost like she was making magic happen with food. All the great smells that ran through the house during the holidays was a joy, just to know that I would be filling my stomach with magic that my mom prepared, was always a great feeling. Once I started to be a teenager, I loved watching food shows. Back then in the…

The Cod is the world's most famous edible fish. It is the chef's favorite cooking ingredients and the delicious for the mouth of diners. Its low calories and high nutrition almost could please everybody. However, what we do not know is that, for centuries, its destiny was firmly related to human beings and was regarded as the witness of human civilization process in the modern era. In “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (1997)”, American writer Mark Kurlansky vividly tells the…

Mary Berry Quotes states, "I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success." I consider myself to be not so bad at baking. But one thing I can never seem to manage to make is pannukakku, which is Finnish pancakes. What makes this so much worse is that I'm Finnish. A Finnish girl who can't manage to make a Finnish dish. A dish that has made by many generations before me. A family recipe that I can't make. One time I was feeling nostalgic and wanted to make…

A sizzling pan is pictured as we hear, “This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?” The egg is cracked and cooks over the heat. This commercial has been etched in my memory since childhood. The issue of legalizing drugs has been debated even longer. Gore Vidal wrote his article “Drugs: Case for Legalizing Marijuana” in The New York Times in 1970, a full 17 years before the aforementioned commercial hit the television airwaves. Vidal’s piece was ahead of its time, but still…

Kitchen Manager. I was able to meet this goal by shadowing Wing Certificate Trainer (WCT) and the Kitchen Manager, not only did I learn the dishes by shadowing WCT and Managers, but also by teaming up with the kitchen staff during high volume and cooking the dishes myself.. Another goal that I was able to accomplish during the Internship was to learn the opening and closing procedure for closing the kitchen by…