Tips on Pitting Multiple Olives at Once

This is a cooking tip busy moms will absolutely love: an easy way to pitting a lot of olives at the same time for your favorite recipe:

Place many olives under a small skillet.  Use the small skillet apply pressure with the bottom of the pan until the olives split open.  It will expose the pit enough to pluck it away by hand. 

You can now crack more than one olive at a time!

- The Moms Buzz

3 Tips on How to Save Leftovers for Later

Often times when you need only half of an avocado, you end up throwing away the other half because it got brown in the refrigerator.  Below you will lean how to help prevent a halved avocado from browning.  Also, these tips on how to save leftovers for later are very useful and I am sure you will put them to practice right away.

Microwave Cooking Tips

Here are some easy to remember cooking tips when using your microwave, especially greens. These microwave cooking tips will make your life easier, just what busy moms need:

Recipe of the Week: Creamy Baby Spinach

Creamy baby spinach is my always favorite and it is so simple to prepare and you can make it as flavorful as you and your children like it.  Here is a very simple recipe of a creamy spinach that you will put to practice right away:

5 Money-Saving Tips for Snacking

Snack time is a good transition time from school to coming back home. Sometimes because of kids' tight schedules, it is not possible to snack at home but on the go or elsewhere.  Despite the location of where your children get to take their snack, snacking is also a good time to make the right choices in terms of food and keeping it under a nice tight budget.  Here are 5 money saving tips for snacking:

Making Pan Sauce - Basic Technique

When it comes to preparing rich, flavorful pan sauces, you need a really good heavy sauce pan - that is key! Once you have that here is the technique and cooking tips of making pan sauces:

Ginger Chicken Kabobs Kids Will Love!

This recipe I got from the Parents.com site, which seems delicious and very kids-friendly plus the benefit of being able to make it all year around.  Right now, it is a good time to try on the grill, but during colder days, just use your broiler.  Here is the recipe:

Cooking Tip #2 on Cooking Lobster

This post is part of series of 3 posts on cooking tips for cooking your lobster in three ways: boiling, steaming and grilling or broiling.  Today's post is on steaming lobster. 

Cooking Tip #1 on Cooking Lobster

In many families, lobster is one of the favorite meals to cook and eat.  So, The Moms Buzz has a series of 3 posts on cooking tips for cooking your lobster in there ways: boiling, steaming and grilling or broiling.  Today's post is on boiling lobster. 

Cooking Tip: How to Serve Dessert

Dessert is one of people's favorite course of a meal. It is the ultimate flavor that wraps up a meal with pleasure and when you get creative and organized, it seems that everyone including you, enjoys it even more!  Here are 3 fun and practical tips on how to serve dessert:

Food Safety Picnics - 3 Basic Tips

Weather has been good this Summer, very little humidity without extreme hot temperatures as in past years.  This fabulous Summer weather has lent itself to picnics beyond the Spring season.

Preparing, serving and eating safe food is very important when on a picnic. We must constantly practice safe food handling to avoid illness, and especially, when the food will remain outside for a long time.  

Follow these 3 basic food safety tips and you will be ready enjoy a safe food picnic:

FREE Summertime Pizza Demo

If you and family are pizza lovers, your stop this weekend is at Sur La Table for a free summertime pizza demo!  No reservation is required, just show up and learn.

Learn the ins and outs of making home-made pizza.  Sur La Table chefs will show you how to make the yummiest pizza in town from scratch using only fresh ingredients. 

Join the fun at your local Sur La Table. The event is this Saturday, July 11 at 11 am, in every store nationwide.

- The Moms Buzz

Recipe of the Week: Breadstick Snails

Photo Credit: Parents.com

Breadstick Snails is the recipe of the week that your children love making them with you and eating them too!  It is fun and so easy to make! This recipe will also stimulate and inspire your creativity at the kitchen!

Recipe of the Week: Grilled Pineapple and Shrimp

Photo credit: Parents.com

The recipe of the week is this delicious and easy recipe to make to make Grilled Pineapple and Shrimp.  It is a fun finger food everyone in the family will like, at least the older ones, you know...
Here is what you need and how to make this fun finger food recipe:

What Exactly is a Mesclun?

I bet you have seen this all over the supermarkets these days taking up gradually more shelf space in the vegetables section, a new leaf lingo: Mesclun. So, what exactly is a mesclun, why not a simple Spring mix?

Cooking Tip: Poaching Technique for Chicken

Poaching chicken can save you lots of time when you do not have the time to marinate and bake chicken.  Poached chicken are perfect for cold salads.  Another great benefit of poaching chicken is that you do not need any fat! Here is a technique that you will want to remember for those days when time is really tight and everyone is hungry, and can't wait that much:

Recipe of the Week: Peanut Butter and Banana Smoothie

Busy moms if you feel you are lacking some energy to meet the demands and challenges of your busy agenda, you may want to shake it up with a delicious peanut butter and banana smoothie! Get energy your energy back with this carb- and protein-packed smoothie:

Sauté Basics - Cooking Tip

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Busy moms love quick and basic tips to make their lives easier especially at the kitchen since we spent so much time there when we are not "chauffeuring" around town.  With this sauté basic technique, you can turn chicken cutlets, pork chops, or thin steaks into supper in no time:

Money Saving Tips

These 4 quick money saving tips will help you keep your budget in line:

1. R-E-S-P-E-C-T your food.  Store it appropriately and it will last longer and reduce waste.

2. Buy a roast on sale and make 3 to 4 meals from it.  First day, serve the roast; second day, sandwich slices for lunches, pot pie in the freezer for the following week!

3. Cook a big pot of beans and freeze in portions to use as you would canned beans.  Tip: do not add salt until they have cooked completely in water only.

- The Moms Buzz

source: The Whole Deal newsletter, April-May 2009

Money Saving and Cooking Tips from Martha Stewart

We all trust Martha Stewart's good advice on homemaking, crafting, home decor, cooking and what not. Here she gives us 3 quick moving saving tips that can make a difference and at the same time serve as cooking tips.